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Discussion on: What Makes Working in Tech Truly Rewarding?

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Manuel Artero Anguita 🟨 • Edited

This field is one of the few were you can go from idea to reality all by yourself. No dependencies.

if you're a roads engineer, the bridge you're to design and build? depends on politics, bureaucracy, actual materials to be delivered etc.
A gen scientist? depends on the lab to be founded and maintained.

But if you're a programmer, all you need is a laptop and an internet connection. That's it. No dependencies.

Of course this is a simplification of the real world, it's not like there are absolutely zero dependencies in programming but you get the point