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johnDoe
8y

God fucking damnit automating a client's "Job applicant form" system is the most boring shit l've ever done.
Get me some damn monkeys to do this
"Oh OK so I just have to take this form and turn it into HTML. Oh shit, 25 check box's, let's just copy paste this shit in over and over. Oh damn, forgot I have to change the name and value fields for each one. God damnit this is boring, I guess I have to"
Fucking hell it's annoying work, Boring, easy, no thought needed. Ended up turning this task into a drinking game. Every time the word "Management" came up, I took a shot. Got me pretty fucked up.
Client emails back; "Oh ya, I forgot to tell you, we have these 3 other forms we want you to automate".
Well fuck at this point I feel like more of an alcoholic than a developer.

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  • 1
    8y
    @robzombie111 honestly for Boring work like that; assuming your at home it's worth turning it into a drinking game.
  • 6
    8y
    Should you have perhaps thought of ways you could automate your workflow? Anything that's being repeated (copypasta) can maybe be made more efficient. Seeing your work as purely boring is not sustainable. Try to think beyond a literal reading of the task. Not always possible, but can help.
  • 1
    8y
    @CrankyOldDev no it would have taken more time to make a system to automate it then just roughing it out. I thought about it though. It's just HTML input value and name fields that made the process repetitive and boring really
  • 0
    8y
    My first three web dev jobs consisted of little more than this. It was infuriating and so so soo boring. I suppose I was the new girl, and someone had to do it...

    I kept my sanity by volunteering as a game developer for another company and splitting my time between the two.
  • 0
    8y
    This kind of things is what I love to use vim macros for.
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