Do You Relate

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Do You Relate

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The grass is always greener on the other side, except both sides are equally caffeinated and underpaid. Baristas look at developers making six figures while staring at a screen and think "I should learn Python." Meanwhile, developers are debugging production at 2 AM fantasizing about the simple life of making lattes where the worst thing that can happen is someone orders a venti caramel macchiato with oat milk. Both jobs involve dealing with angry customers and cleaning up other people's messes, but only one lets you work in sweatpants. The irony is that both groups are probably right about wanting to switch.

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