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    550 points polskibus | 15 comments | 08 Feb 19 16:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.964s | source | bottom
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    locklock ◴[08 Feb 19 16:47 UTC] No.19116039[source]▶
    I'm really thankful I haven't yet had a job where all I'm developing is new ways to force people to see ads. Imagine working on a 'feature' like this for weeks or months, and the end result is simply that people who don't want to see ads now have to see ads.
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    1. badgers ◴[08 Feb 19 16:58 UTC] No.19116176[source]▶
    That reminds me of a quote about dentistry: "You're in a career where nobody wants to see you and you're the last place they want to come back to and it's depressing." (https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/5344jz/are-dentists-rea...)
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    2. dsr_ ◴[08 Feb 19 17:08 UTC] No.19116302[source]▶
    A dentist's parents are usually proud of them.

    "What are you doing at work these days, kid?"

    "I'm inventing new ways to make people see advertising."

    "Have you considered doing something positive with your life?"

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    3. fipple ◴[08 Feb 19 17:18 UTC] No.19116423[source]▶
    Yeah, but like any medical field, people come to you in extreme pain and leave without it. If you can’t find meaning in that you probably can’t find meaning in anything.
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    4. gorpomon ◴[08 Feb 19 17:45 UTC] No.19116737[source]▶
    I love my dentist. I always leave feeling super clean and well cared for. Doesn't hurt that the window is a striking view of gorgeous skyscrapers.
    5. ethbro ◴[08 Feb 19 17:48 UTC] No.19116760[source]▶
    One of my father's quips, "There are only two kinds of jobs: those where everyone is happy to see you, and those where everyone is mad to see you. Be the UPS delivery person, not the process server."
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    6. hamandcheese ◴[08 Feb 19 18:38 UTC] No.19117266[source]▶
    “I’m working a super cushy job making twice as much as I could most other places, mom!”

    “Proud of you!”

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    7. AznHisoka ◴[08 Feb 19 18:42 UTC] No.19117316[source]▶
    Isn't that true of any medical profession.. and pretty much 90% of all professions? Besides, I think dentists deserve vastly more respect.. especially the ones that check for mouth diseases and precursors to cancer.
    8. majewsky ◴[08 Feb 19 18:47 UTC] No.19117393[source]▶
    That was from a different time, right? By now, package delivery people also has a pretty bad reputation due to the profit pressures exerted on them by capitalists. I don't really feel happy seeing a delivery guy. If anything, I feel sorry for them.
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    9. _underfl0w_ ◴[08 Feb 19 18:51 UTC] No.19117438{3}[source]▶
    This is the realistic scenario, unfortunately, since the "users" in this scenario wouldn't understand the distinction between one tech job and another.

    Substitute that job for one selling drugs with better, more consistent pay and... well... then it's culturally frowned upon by non-tech-savvy people.

    Deliberately spreading "fake news" is the advertising equivalent.

    10. cdelsolar ◴[08 Feb 19 19:33 UTC] No.19117838[source]▶
    I think the exact opposite is true in dentistry.
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    11. ethbro ◴[08 Feb 19 19:59 UTC] No.19118073{3}[source]▶
    It was a quip, not a 20 page treatise on absolute accuracy. ;)
    12. ImaCake ◴[08 Feb 19 21:37 UTC] No.19118934{3}[source]▶
    Sometimes. My personal experience has been to present to the dentist with agonising pain and for them to fix it. Sure, I will have lost a tooth, and half my face is too numb for me to eat. But within a few days the agonising pain is gone.
    13. justapassenger ◴[08 Feb 19 22:24 UTC] No.19119270[source]▶
    My wife is genuinely happy to see ads. My parents are happy, that their small business can advertise, that allow them to sell product, pay their employees and support themselves.

    Ads aren't root of all evil.

    14. porpoisely ◴[09 Feb 19 00:38 UTC] No.19119918[source]▶
    You are fooling yourself if you think the parents' of facebook employees' aren't proud of them.

    What's with the neverending facebook bashing. So much of it is propagandistic and unreasonable. It's funny how the media says something and so many people just parrot it.

    Do you really believe parents are disappointed that their child works for one of the most important companies in the world? Where the average salary is double what the average dentist makes?

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    15. Barrin92 ◴[09 Feb 19 01:15 UTC] No.19120074{3}[source]▶
    I mean, my parents never raised me to judge the value of my job by the size of the paycheck or the size of the company, so yes they would likely be disappointed if I worked at such a job.

    Career tobacco lobbyists probably make ten times as much money as your average dentist and work for very important companies, but I don't know any parent who would be proud of their kid being a poison vendor rather than a doctor