re: #278 Simply Sarah

In some ways, I think things are getting better for the employee, at least in the programming field. My understanding is that the demand for coders is starting to actually strain the available numbers, although some of that may be related to the fact that, quite honestly, coding isn’t for most people. Not that they can’t do it and do it well, but that most people really probably don’t want to do it as a career.

That is exactly right, IMO.

I was a computer science major before I switched to biology. I love programming and taught myself C and x86 assembly. But I realized that programming as a career meant lots of overtime and probably sleeping under my desk during crunch time. And then the realization became that I’d probably be doing that while working on some really boring productivity software or something - rather than the types of programs that interest me. Not to mention the likely health impact of such a career.

That pretty much broke any desire I had and I switched back to my love of living organisms.