What's an innocent misconception about your hobby/profession that drives you up the wall?
Like for example, how someone thinks because you work in IT you can fix their TV, or how if you're into music you must be able to play any random instrument.
I just like hearing pros rant about about their very niche problems.
For me, it's actually more fascinating than annoying how programming became known as this asocial profession where you sit all day in a dark room typing out some complex algorithms without ever talking to a human being. Meanwhile my daily work is mostly discussing requirements with architects / product owners, setting up meetings with other teams to see if maybe they have some experience with my current issue, training newcomers, helping the tech support deal with customers' cases... sometimes I go weeks without touching any code, and even when I do, it tends to be an hour of reading docs and discussing potential solutions with teammates per five minutes of actual coding.
Working IT: The entire family thinks I'll always be happy and eager to fix all of their computer problems for them.
Being an electrical engineer: People think I'm an electrician.
I feel this. Not just family, too -- anyone who hears that I'm in IT. Or, even worse, when my family offers up my IT services to others without my knowledge, and those people call me out of the blue. There is no world in which I am happy or eager to deal with some rando's computer problems.
I feel this. I get so annoyed when I am "voluntold" to help someone with their stupid computer problem. I spend all day at work fixing people's problems. I don't want to come home and do the same thing!
Yep, I'm pretty sure a lot of hackers don't hack because they want to see the world burn, but because doing a regular cybersecurity job is just too boring.
there are hacking themed cybersecurity jobs. Pentesting is an absolute blast. Other Cybersecurity jobs seem pretty boring though, was a SOC analyst for a while and it was so very dull.
To give my own examples: As a pixel artist it drives me nuts when people call anything pixel adjacent "sprite art", because a sprite is just any art made to represent an object/character in 2D, and can be pretty much any art style or even be a 3D model in some cases.
Similarly, the weird conflation people seem to have of voxel art with pixel art. They both have very different design principles, and turning pixel art 1:1 into voxel art doesn't often work as intended for either style.
Add comment