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Turing_Machine on Nov 9, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The MBAs are fleeing, should SF be worried?

If you're the kind of person who actually enjoys screwing around with spreadsheets all day long, maybe.

If you'd rather work as a Roman galley slave, maybe not.

No money is worth doing a job that you hate.

Turing_Machine on Nov 9, 2014 [–]

Note that my advice would be the same to those who are contemplating becoming programmers.

If you don't actually enjoy writing code, no amount of money is worth it.

hyperliner on Nov 9, 2014 | [–]

The interesting thing about doing spreadsheets or writing code is that, at their fundamental level, they are very similar.

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