#poll for all you beautiful hard working professional computer touchers out there:
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#poll for all you beautiful hard working professional computer touchers out there:
"my day job has me making the world a ____ place"
(be honest, don't just repeat what your CEO says)
@aeva Improving government software systems in ways that makes life better for employees and citizens without intrusive spyware? Good! Being employed by a contractor that probably way over-charges and has a horrible impact on influencing the acceptability of the way it treats its employees? Very bad. Overall, I say slightly good, but it's edging on neutral.
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#poll for all you beautiful hard working professional computer touchers out there:
"my day job has me making the world a ____ place"
(be honest, don't just repeat what your CEO says)
@aeva the place i do computer-touching for makes vegetarian food and tries to get non-vegetarians into it (and it tastes pretty good)
i picked "better" but it's more like "not worse, with the potential for better" and perhaps "nowhere near the hell of most computer-toucher jobs"
that has been great for my mental health, but it's still not a co-op or a nonprofit or doing significant direct work on fighting looming existential threats
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@aeva where does "just barely keeping our heads above water sustaining a vital piece of public knowledge infrastructure which if we're honest is also sort of deeply implicated in the contemporary crisis of knowledge in various ways" fit on this scale
@brennen probably option 4
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@aeva the place i do computer-touching for makes vegetarian food and tries to get non-vegetarians into it (and it tastes pretty good)
i picked "better" but it's more like "not worse, with the potential for better" and perhaps "nowhere near the hell of most computer-toucher jobs"
that has been great for my mental health, but it's still not a co-op or a nonprofit or doing significant direct work on fighting looming existential threats
@pho4cexa normalizing vegetarian food and developing compelling alternatives to meat is a good cause, especially considering the significant environmental impact of meat production. I give you permission to feel unambiguously good about your job.
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@aeva it depends on what my clients do with the buildings I plan. in most cases I hope good things are being done in those places, like children learning and people having homes. at the same time, I have no idea if some of the money from those buildings are going to corruption. well, one of my clients got into the most well known newscast in the country. a building I designed was shown to millions… in a corruption scandal news report
@qgustavor architecture is probably morally neutral most of the time? i guess it would be kind of hard to miss if you were being asked to design a prison and a mass grave
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#poll for all you beautiful hard working professional computer touchers out there:
"my day job has me making the world a ____ place"
(be honest, don't just repeat what your CEO says)
@aeva I guess the adjective is maybe "more energy efficent", which is of course a good thing, but I hesitate to use better due to it being a kind of indirect thing with it being more about monitoring energy and water usage.
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@pho4cexa normalizing vegetarian food and developing compelling alternatives to meat is a good cause, especially considering the significant environmental impact of meat production. I give you permission to feel unambiguously good about your job.
@aeva wow, um face value i didn't expect that's where this poll was headed. i browsed through some of your other responses to replies to this poll and you are just out there blasting much-needed hope and positivity into the inferno. you're awesome and thank you
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@aeva I make a website that helps the company sell their tool for making websites. I guess the hidden adjective is "more website-y"? I find the whole situation to be morally neutral.
@angelikatyborska do you use their tool to make their website?
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#poll for all you beautiful hard working professional computer touchers out there:
"my day job has me making the world a ____ place"
(be honest, don't just repeat what your CEO says)
@aeva As a system administrator in a university (in a CS department) I feel my day job is probably somewhere around neutral. I would like to think I am making the world ever so slightly better by keeping the lights on and helping researchers and graduate students learn new things but I'm not sure I can be that optimistic about the typical output of academia.
I mostly settle for 'at least my work isn't clearly making the world worse'.
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@aanee well, moving chairs around on the deck is good exercise at least right
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@aeva As a system administrator in a university (in a CS department) I feel my day job is probably somewhere around neutral. I would like to think I am making the world ever so slightly better by keeping the lights on and helping researchers and graduate students learn new things but I'm not sure I can be that optimistic about the typical output of academia.
I mostly settle for 'at least my work isn't clearly making the world worse'.
@cks yeah CS department makes it tricky to say
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