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Written by Jeff Horton on 2025-01-24 at 16:07

Hey friends. Another topic I didn't think was controversial but was surprised talking to other instructors yesterday. Let me know what you think.

A bad day in programming is way better than a bad day in pretty much any other job.

• and still often better than a good day in many jobs too.

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Written by Chris Simpson on 2025-01-24 at 16:30

@jeffhorton spent too long trying to respond to this. I just don't know, and I'm not sure how anyone could know, without some reasonable definition of a bad day, a really well designed study, and a significant amount of data. Even then I'm not sure the answer would be satisfactory.

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Written by Jeff Horton on 2025-01-24 at 16:35

@chris_e_simpson your grey area question about this is why I'm asking. I suppose another option could have been "I've never not worked as a programmer". Because people who have done other kinds of work don't hesitate the way the instructors and you apparently did.

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Written by Chris Simpson on 2025-01-24 at 17:00

@jeffhorton it wasn't really hesitation, just an attempt to explain in a nice and succinct way :)

You suggest that bad days in programming jobs are typically less worse than bad days in most other jobs. But how could you be even close to knowing that? Assuming you haven't read a bunch of science books on this topic, your basis is your own job history and other people's anecdotes neither of which can possibly represent a reasonable population sample for a good assessment. And that's without a good definition of what constitutes a "bad day" which would vary person by person and as a measuring tool, woefully unreliable with regards to historical estimates

I suspect the people who don't hesitate about such a question haven't thought it through. Thinking things through is very much a skill required by a good programmer though such thinkers often are highly sensitive which can lead to more bad days than average. So maybe it's programmers who have more bad days :)

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Written by Jeff Horton on 2025-01-24 at 17:25

@chris_e_simpson On a 'bad day' as a programmer does your patient die, do you lose a limb, do you hurt or kill someone, do you freeze, permanently injure yourself or others? Does your team suffer life long after effects, ptsd, trauma? Are you working in heat/cold/wasteland/warzone? No, not even remotely.

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Written by Erin Dalzell (He/Him) 🇨🇦 on 2025-01-24 at 21:10

@jeffhorton @chris_e_simpson sure, lots of serious software bugs have caused injury/death/physical/mental issues.

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