What do your friends and family think software development is like?

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[Shubhendra Singh Chauhan]

@ben I don't think I can ever give more appropriate answer than this 👇😃

[JoelBonetR 🥇]

That's worryingly accurate 🙃😂😂

[notsoavailablemako]

sad life

[Raksit vaja]

😂😂😂 forget all things just focus on making GIF's

[Gass]

hahahaha! this is freaking hilarious!

[Aileen Rae]

In general my family think I "work with computers" so I'm the go-to for fixing WiFi routers, changing mobile phone settings, updating computers, etc.

I try to tell them this is not a web developer's job, but since I am a bit more technically proficient than them and I can find the solutions via Google they remain unconvinced.

[jonah-butler]

exactly, the fam knows you're a software developer and suddenly we are the Geek Squad too.

[Alhassan Kamil]

Most of them have no clue what I do. Some be like: "wow, you're really patient arranging those words in such a nice way". When they come closer, then they'll begin to complain: "mmm, they're not even meaningful words; you just like typing on your laptop".

[Mahmoud Harmouch]

One picture that sums it all up:

[Bruno]

They think it's more about "math" than it really is.

[Eelco Verbrugge]

So true, but what is it really about according to you?

[Constantin]

Logic and abstraction

[Lou Willoughby]

My parents and partner have no idea what I do, my partner really tries to understand but when I show them something I’m really excited about they just look at me like 👀👀

[Chris Greening]

[Tawhid]

That's a classic!

[Chris Greening]

System.out.println("Time Hacked successfully.");

[Tawhid]

Just four words:
black magic &&
Tech Support

[jonah-butler]

and google

[Meir Gabay]

That I work in the Matrix

Especially when they see the terminal running some npm install or cmake .. Those 483648 lines of output do the trick

[Tawhid]

and mine is when they see me do sudo apt-get update with zsh and powerlevel10k

[Stephanie Handsteiner]

They think I'm an entire IT department and can fix all of their IT related problems.

I mean, I do fix their problems, but most of the time, I just do what I always do (aside from moving rectangles around to make a coherent UI of them): I professionally Google the answer. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯