I cannot find a job because I don't have experience and I cannot get experience because I don't have a job.

-- Ancient Chinese Proverb

"C'est en forgeant qu'on devient forgeron", a French proverb.
(Means : it's by smithing that you become a blacksmith)

This is definitely a total first world problem but I am so frustrated.

I am stuck in a team that embodies the Japanese proverb "The nail that sticks out gets hammered down".

The management are there because it is convenient and flexible and have no interest in managing or keeping up with tech.
The lead developers are extremely anti-social and are not approachable and the this stems down to the devs (not all but really most) - all there just to do the bare minimum and spend most of their energies in trying to avoid work or having learn something.

Unfortunately I am passionate about what I do and want to build high-quality products and this has put me at odds with the way things work.

I could fill up alot of time talking about how I was ordered to "cut" images/icons out of PDFs rather just getting them from the branding team, or how I was scolded for having set up logging, detected a problem caused by another developer and fixed it before it cost a big client a massive amount of money... But really the point is that I have never worked somewhere with such an awful attitude to enthusiasm and quite frankly it boggles my mind trying to understand how they rationalise these things but the answer is always laziness.

Obviously there are worse problems in the world than working in a job where you are encouraged to do nothing... But it actually really depresses me and causes anxiety that I am working with people who don't care about testing or monitoring or learning new things or even collaboration.

...sigh...

Hopefully the job market will start opening again soon

What the poes

Someone may love water if all they know is a pool, or they may hate water if all they know is an ocean.

— a thought on why some take to programming more than others

"If you’re presented with a situation – a man is drowning – and you could either choose to save the man or shoot the scene, what kind of film would you use? " - Photographers’ proverb

So, there was an Internship and Recruitment training seminar held in my college yesterday, by a firm that's very well known apparently. Some wonderful new things that we learned:

*There are 4 types of loops, not 2. (Okay, maybe on a technicality, but still not conventionally)

*You aren't asked to write code when interviewing for a programming job. (Well, what?)

*A rolling stone has no mass. (Probably the worst mutated proverb I've ever heard)

I'm not going to sign up for this program.

Humility. If my code fails, it's always my fault, never the machine's.

"Loadshedding or just our house?"

-South African Proverb

I waa pretty sure fortune cookies were getting weirder... but seriously, it's gotten THIS bad? Not a fortune, nor a proverb, just a one-liner on political finance?

Just seems extra messed up that you can now be prompted to discuss national debt via fortune cookie from chinese take-out. We do owe the most to china afterall. Yet fortune cookies are invented by us(and typically one of the few things produced stateside). Just seems extra off...

Shaddock proverb: Continuously trying we ended up succeeding. So the more we fail, the more the success rate improves.

From every developer comes great responsibility.

"No indicator, nothing!"

-South African proverb

"Die kak wat mans doen vir poes"

-South African proverb

In a world where you can be anything you want, why do so many people choose to be a poes?

"It is better be a poes than to be taken for a poes"

South African proverb