• S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 months ago

    40 old me looking at a screen with SSMS and Azure: Instead of an engineer like my father I should have been a tailor like my mom… Or a carpenter…

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      9 months ago

      It’s never too late to enter carpentry. I know quite a few programmers who do carpentry as their main hobby. Something about the math and the amount of careful planning is highly transferrable, I guess.

      • Trailblazing Braille Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        9 months ago

        Whenever I try building something with wood, I get so frustrated that it’s not version controlled. In software, I can fearlessly try dumb stuff because I can just roll it back if it didn’t work.