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The sad stories from programmers in the world

zooboole

Published By zooboole

Hello, everyone. I greet you all fellow developers. By developer, I mean every developer in all programming languages of all sorts.

Brains of many innovations of all times. We made the Internet. We're still making it. I also believe we're going to keep on making it in the future. We create all sorts of gadgets that are of all sizes. From tiny cameras to giant satellites. We're spread all over the world in different locations. But we never felt bored and far from others. We're empowered by one common thing: The passion for knowledge and the passion for thinking. Passion is our biggest mistake.

I think we are the only species that rises to work only on their tools and not on their survival. We can take an entire week or months just trying to fix something that normal people would never understand why and the benefit in it.

Today I feel a bit sorry and lost about how developers are treated and considered in various places and premises around the globe. Developers are suffering and this is unfortunate.

I've recently had the chance to work with and talk to a few programmers in the USA, UK, Pakistan, India, Basil, etc and I have noticed some common problems with us:

  • We're ready to die with an empty stomach, just because we want to do anything to contribute to something in this world.
  • We fight with all our energy to make sure information is available and accessible to everyone
  • We want more health for the tech than ourselves
  • We sacrifice a lot of sleep for ideas
  • etc

To sum up, we work harder than anyone could think of. But at the same time, we're the ones who seem to suffer a lot. Coding consumes a lot of energy and time. Anyone in any sector could say the same thing. I agree, but I sweep my house first before minding anyone else's.

It's complicated for normal people to understand. You can't imagine the number of developers who are suffering out there and nobody is aware of.

Many probably die and nobody notices that.

The process/stage of being a programmer is not fun stuff. Most of us have so many responsibilities that you wonder how we manage to keep the web or their ecosystem active.

Take the example of programming languages core developers. Their function is usually to contribute to language development. If you don't understand, it means you help to create one of the great programming languages that are used maybe by Facebook, Google, Oracle, etc but you are not paid anything. Nothing.

Take another example of bloggers who share free resources(tutorials, code snippets, applications,...). They wake up and sacrifice a lot of their time and resources to get it done. Someone may say they get paid through advertisement. Yes, you're right. But for a blog to fetch you money, you would've maybe spent everything you had to survive. So maybe it's by the grace of God you survived to that point. But no, they are pushed by their passion for solving and helping people. We help and contribute to so many things that we even ignore they exist.

Guys are out there with so many daily challenges. No good computers, no good batteries for laptop, light offs, serious marathons to get Internet, boring clients, a family relative to support for medication of school, many with wives and children to support, or even trying to afford a $5.00 domain name for a blog, etc. If you've been around you should know what I am talking about

Imagine the number of developers who are working at places that are not where they can do their research to explore the real potential of their brains.

All this sounds to me sometimes like some kind of a waste of resources. Companies that are supposed to help are busier with making more money than making more changes in the world as developers think. And, this makes coding feel like imposed labor.

Bottom line

This is to tell you if you are starting and you think what you're going through is too much to bear, be calm. You're not alone. Many people before you went through the same thing and there are many out there like you. You're not alone. Be brave, the world doesn't have hears now to hear you, or eyes to see you until you do something useful to help them become great or improve their businesses. Go ask Mark Zuckerberg, Linus Torvalds, etc.

Imagine for instance this article was published on Bloomberg, or CNN, or even SitePoint, it could be shared millions of times, but for now, no one cares. Consider it as being on state false for now. Work hard and you could gain your independence like many before we did.

Keep on loving your code, but also don't forget to think of a business idea for your passion. It will help. Remember what the father of the WWW said:

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

Share this with other guys around you. We're family. Thanks.

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