Finding a why in software development

Opinion:

If you were to ask a software developer right now as to what their reason is on why they became a software developer, it would probably be something along the lines of “oh for the money” or “it’s the trend right now”. This is probably what you would hear 90% of the time if you asked this question — and I think there’s a problem with that.

Without getting too deep into the details, I think that in a person’s lifetime, there is always a point in time anyone can point back to where there is a sudden shift in their very way of thinking. A whole new mindset, a whole new purpose, better motivation, a deeper “why”. But before all this, there is that time and mind-space someone is in where they feel they have no bigger purpose, other than to wake up and to do the same thing they have been doing over and over again. You often hear some argue (or at-least my generation) that those that have never gone through any rough periods in life is “one of the lucky ones”, but I beg to differ.

If you are “one of the lucky ones”, congratulations! You have no deeper sense of meaning in life other than doing things for the money and because everyone else is doing it. You wake up everyday to do the same thing over and over again with no reason why, just do as you’re told during the day and by the end of the day still contribute absolutely no good towards society and the way of life.

I’m no philosopher. This is a blog post on Medium — anyone can write a blog and write about an opinion they’re offended by after watching Dave Chappelle.

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