Hi, i like to jump into the discourse with a small reader maybe worth to read: * http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/portal/publications/network-notebooks/technobohemians-or-the-new-cybertariat/ (there is a free PDF download)
QUOTE "*about the publication*: Accounts of new media working conditions draw heavily on two polarised stereotypes, veering from techno-utopianism on the one hand, to a vision of webworkers as the new 'precariat', victims of neo-liberal economic policies on the other. Heralded from both perspectives as representing the brave new world of work, what is striking is the absence of research on new media workers' own experiences, particularly in a European context. This INC commissioned research goes beyond contemporary myths to explore how people working in the field experience the pleasures, pressures and challenges of working on the web. Illustrated throughout with quotations from interviews, it examines the different career paths emerging for content-producers in web-based industries, questions the relevance of existing education and training, and highlights the different ways in which people manage and negotiate freelancing, job insecurity, and keeping up to date in a fast-moving field where both software and expectations change rapidly." In most software companies young talents come with their own laptop as a "freelancer" ~ the parallel to a early industrial mine worker who has to work the first month for free to pay back is work equipment is basicly the same in coding industries 2011 ;-) ~ the exeptions like google etc just take the "cream" on top ... but never the less, i agree with Rob, knowing what gears drives the information society is an asset, to shape the critical mind. enjoy reading wish you well kiilo On 07/01/12 12:58, Rob Myers wrote: > 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 -- Tobias Hoffmann \ artist, lecturer and media designer \\\\\\ +1-514-574-5598 \ skype kiilo_ \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ \\\\\\ http://kiilo.org \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ \\\\\\ http://2010.playaround.cc \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ \\\\\\ http://github.ch/kiilo \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ \\\\\\ http://delicious.com/kiilo \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ \\\\\\ http://www.diigo.com/user/kiilo_ \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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