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You know those illustrated story books for children?
The ones with cute anthropomorphized animals going about their jobs in a fairytale animal society, posting letters and walking kids across the street and fixing cars in the garage?
If you can't accurately depict yourself doing your job as a drawing in one of those books, it's not a real job.
(I'm also a programmer, by the way.....)
I was reading one of those books to my kid once and there was a pig butcher. I'm not sure how that's supposed to work in the lore of the book. Was he some halliburlector type or was he actually just a butcher. How deep does the analogue go?
I feel like that's almost a macabre in-joke to the adults involved
Dog hammering away at keyboard, in the other side off the wall an ATM is now working or a plane safely lands.
Am also a dev.
For real that standard just requires people be creative
Isn't everyone on lemmy?
I always thought those old scratch-n-sniff books were a better analogy. Scratch my code and smell the shit.