Programming Isn't Manual Labor, But It Still Sucks

Peter Welch is a writer and programmer. He is the author of the book And Then I Thought I Was a Fish and the blog "Still Drinking".

Every friend I have with a job that involves picking up something heavier than a laptop more than twice a week eventually finds a way to slip something like this into conversation: "Bro, you don't work hard. I just worked a 4700-hour week digging a tunnel under Mordor with a screwdriver."

They have a point. Mordor sucks, and it's certainly more physically taxing to dig a tunnel than poke at a keyboard unless you're an ant. But, for the sake of the argument, can we agree that stress and insanity are bad things? Awesome. Welcome to programming. Read more...

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