Rebugging

Spent 45 minutes debugging a function that wasn't returning a value, only to realize I never actually called the function in the first place. That moment of realization hits like a ton of bricks—you go from frantically searching for complex bugs to discovering you're the bug. It's like building an entire spaceship and forgetting to press the launch button. The compiler's just sitting there thinking, "I can't believe this human has a CS degree."

Content Me converting excel into a PDF for my boss My boss who makes 3x my salary

Content Programmer's are intelligent, and capable of negotiating their own contracts. They have no reason to waste money on a union. I sure hope they're dumb enough to believe that, and don't join IFPTE, CODE-CWA, or IWW.

Content Me realizing that I will have paid off my student loan debt and my mortgage debt before even make a slight dent in the technical debt of my product.

God checking in on Earth only to discover his beloved COBOL is no longer the programming superstar?! THE HORROR! 😱 For the uninitiated, COBOL is that ancient programming language from the 1950s that's basically the technological equivalent of a dinosaur that REFUSES to go extinct. It's still running critical financial systems and government infrastructure because apparently rewriting that code would be like trying to perform heart surgery while skydiving. Meanwhile, God's up there clutching his pearls because JavaScript and Python have stolen his thunder. Sorry, big guy, but your precious COBOL is now just the weird grandparent of programming languages that banks can't bear to put in a retirement home!

Content 1 Am Devloper iamdevloper Programming; the only profession where you're expected to go home and do more of your job just to prove how much you're qualified to do it