I have been a professional software developer for 10 years now. Today on my way to work I have realized once again that in all those years, I have not held a single job that was any fun at all. (Not for want of switching - the longest I ever lasted at one company was one year).
Programming is fun, but programming jobs suck. At least the vast majority of them. Save for starting my own business, my hopes are close to zero to find a fun programming job in the future.*
Maybe women are just better than men at figuring such things out and going for jobs that are more fun.
This would also explain the decline of women in tech since the eighties. I suppose cubicles and all that only appeared around that time.
* I would like jobs like Data Mining for Backtype or TheSixtyOne, but jobs like that are rare. I also don't have the required portfolio yet.
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I have been a professional software developer for 10 years now. Today on my way to work I have realized once again that in all those years, I have not held a single job that was any fun at all. (Not for want of switching - the longest I ever lasted at one company was one year).
Programming is fun, but programming jobs suck. At least the vast majority of them. Save for starting my own business, my hopes are close to zero to find a fun programming job in the future.*
Maybe women are just better than men at figuring such things out and going for jobs that are more fun.
This would also explain the decline of women in tech since the eighties. I suppose cubicles and all that only appeared around that time.
* I would like jobs like Data Mining for Backtype or TheSixtyOne, but jobs like that are rare. I also don't have the required portfolio yet.