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Pointless coding for the void (lemmy.world)

submitted 18 hours ago by reabsorbthelight@lemmy.world to c/cs_career_questions@programming.dev

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I feel like most of my work has been wasted throughout my career.

In my 10 years, I can look back and I think maybe 3 years of my work still exists today. A couple companies are not defunct. A couple projects were literally cut from under me.

Is this normal? Do most software engineers end up having a ton of their work wasted?

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[–] reabsorbthelight@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah it got me money, but I kind of feel like I'm scamming VCs, which isn't a bad. It's just I'm not really contributing to anything

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Scamming stupid VCs is just a bonus.

It's also a public service, the sooner each VC is dead broke, the sooner their stupid stops making life worse for everyone else.

[–] NewDark@lemmings.world 3 points 16 hours ago

I struggle with this feeling a lot as well. I think it's partly due to labor alienation, at least partially.