• Zink@programming.dev
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    12 days ago

    I’m trying to have it both ways by keeping my desk job and building/upgrading a koi pond at home. I read more about the oxidation of organic compounds than about the compilation of code, and every day I inch further to the right in this meme.

    I highly recommend having significant hobbies far outside your area of work.

    • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org
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      12 days ago

      Goats are absolute assholes. This fuckers will find even the smallest hole in the fence and break out of it. Sheep are already bad, but goats are the worst.

  • markko@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    No way in hell I’d want to be a farmer these days. That shit seems like the most stressful career possible.

    Something like gardener/groundskeeper looks good to me though.

  • big_fat_fluffy@leminal.spaceEnglish
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    12 days ago

    To be fair, the pro-work propaganda is directed at the middle of the bell curve. That guy in the middle has bespoke mindfuck beamed into his brain 24-7, but the guys on the ends are well out of the line of fire.

  • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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    13 days ago

    I want to do my job that I like. Even make money for the shareholders. Nobody seems to be interested though so fuck it goat farming it is.

  • will_a113@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    13 days ago

    I am definitely sliding down from the peak toward a trough. In which direction I can’t say tho.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    My “I wanna be a goat farmer,” which I doubt will ever happen, is a recording studio with only pre-1950s equipment. Everything goes live into ribbon mics, through a tube mixer (pots, not faders!) and lathed directly onto a master disc. No digital anything, no multitrack, not even condenser mics. A place for musicians to record music like they did once upon a time…

    I could never afford to do it, but it’s a fun dream.

  • VonReposti@feddit.dk
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    12 days ago

    My parents were the middle ones so now I got an MSc and a good career. Aaand I’m contemplating whether I should just be a goat farmer instead.

    • lath@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      I recommend against it. Goat farming isn’t for everyone. You should start with sheep first, then slowly add goats. People who go for goats directly tend to fail more often than not.

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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    13 days ago

    I don’t want to be a goat farmer but I do find people that work hard to make management richer are insufferable.

    “”" A man is walking into the office when he sees his boss pull into the parking lot in a brand new sports car. “Wow! Nice car! How’d you afford that?” he says.

    The boss smiles at him and says, “Listen. If you work hard, hit all your numbers this quarter, put in some overtime, then I can buy another one next quarter.” “”"

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Bar owner for me. Seriously if my biggest worries were drunks and selling beer, real actual tangible problems instead of the shit in the corporate world. Im so tired of the corporate world