On 07/01/12 17:27, IR3ABF wrote: > > I could afford maintaining my wife and childrens life by working as a > 'code monkey'.
Well that's what I do. :-) My response was mainly to the idea that there is no reason to learn a skill if one cannot practice it exclusively as a career. > What remains then is something else, not expressable in 'jargon' or > 'code', and I wonder where exactly the divide between 'leisure/fun' > and 'work/labour' lies if not in the differences between having a job > - whether as a 'code monkey' or as 'paid' artist or as a 'cultural/ > creative/sex worker - and not having a job, or should I go into the > streets and fellate white collar workers to maintain my family? It is worthwhile learning to code even if one is not going to make one's living just from coding. In much the same way as it's worth learning to write if you're not going to be an author and learning maths if you're not going to be a mathematician. Employment patterns for software developers coincide with my assertion that software development should not be an end in itself: most software is written for "in house" use. - Rob. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
