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On Tue, 14 May 2024 11:05:14 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

> 
> That can happen, of course. A guy's got to eat!
> 
> I've gone in the opposite direction. Now that I'm not tied to a job,
> I have plenty more time to indulge my OCD (obsessive coding disorder).
>

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

Only fools do not realize that 99% of engineering jobs and 99%
of programming jobs are oriented to the production of cheap junk.

Walk into any Walmart, Home Depot, or Harbor Freight.  What do you
find?  Junk.  Total Junk.

But Amazon is the biggest purveyor with page after page after page
of total junk merchandise across all departments.

Where does that junk originate?  It requires humongous numbers
of engineers and designers across the globe to produce that
junk.  The brain-dead MBAs hire the talent and then give orders
to design and engineer products that are the cheapest possible.

There's your 99%.

The exact same obtains for computer programming.  (Check your
average web developer or Microshit/Apphole itself.)

The only place where engineering/programming quality rules
the day is public-supported science.  Large particle accelerators
or satellite observatories demand the absolute best practices.

There's your 1%.

Also, FOSS is not ruled by money grubbers and we can therefore
expect more quality than junk.

In conclusion:

Unless you are oriented to cutting-edge science/programming,
or FOSS, your career will be devoted to the design of total junk.