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by Markoff·9y ago·view on hn ↗
most of the office jobs are really irrelevant, you can either get in peace with that or change profession if you wanna do really something meaningful or try to find positives how your affect people's lives in some small way even through some office job

i used to work in call center, it was not 911 life saving line, just insurance claim registration, though even it was bad pay it was sort of satisfactory to help people who experienced disaster or accident and talk them through it when they were in stress, at least i knew i calmed down some people and checked their priorities that maybe they crashed their car but they are not injured

higher i went with salary later in IT less satisfactory was the job, because in the end of the day what will be difference if there will be minor bug in mobile phone OS, i always found it funny how serious newcomers took it, they think we are saving lives by fixing crashing so under certain scenario? in this regard bakers job is much more important than mine

nowadays i just don't care, job doesn't really fulfill me, or better said i can enjoy it despite knowing it's pretty much irrelevant

if you really feel the urge to do something meaningful switch progression, those important are actually usually very easy to enter, i am seriously considering now if i should become policeman since police have trouble to find people with offered salary, it would be pretty useful job, though i guess not so good to provide for my family

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> in the end of the day what will be difference if there will be minor bug in mobile phone OS

Even if the bug only provides an inconvenience or irritation (as opposed to say a crash or data loss) for one minute per user per year, it's still tens/hundreds of millions of people whose lifes were made a tiny bit worse. It's something like being an asshole to someone in the queue at the grocery store - it's just that one person affected and he'll forget that in 15 minutes - but it does not make it ok.