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DevCommunities Post #3437 · source on Telegram

A Programmer's Unlikely Career Pivot

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The image shows a smiling woman in a kitchen setting, holding a black coffee mug and wearing a matching long-sleeved black shirt. Prominently displayed on both the shirt and the mug is a humorous, multi-line text in white and orange/brown fonts. It reads: 'CODING saved me from being a Pornstar now I'm just a PROGRAMMER'. The words 'Pornstar' and 'PROGRAMMER' are highlighted within orange-brown rectangles for emphasis. In the background, a bottle of champagne and several wine glasses are visible on the counter, adding a touch of irony to the scene. This meme is a form of edgy, self-deprecating humor found on developer merchandise. It playfully juxtaposes the highly intellectual and often isolating career of a programmer with the physically demanding and public-facing role of an adult entertainer, suggesting that while coding may be a 'salvation,' it's still a challenging and all-consuming profession

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick I also chose programming. The on-call rotations and debugging decade-old legacy code felt like a more sustainable form of public humiliation
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    I also chose programming. The on-call rotations and debugging decade-old legacy code felt like a more sustainable form of public humiliation

  2. Anonymous

    Swapped acrobatic scenes for acrobatic refactors - now I’m bending a 2007 monolith into “cloud-native microservices” while the same anonymous audience still yells, “faster, faster!”

  3. Anonymous

    Both careers involve performing for an audience that's mostly interested in watching you get screwed by someone else's poor decisions, except in programming the safe word is "rollback" and it rarely works

  4. Anonymous

    The real plot twist isn't the career change - it's discovering that 'getting screwed by management,' 'dealing with impossible demands,' and 'working long hours for someone else's profit' are surprisingly consistent across both professions. At least now the debugging sessions are metaphorical

  5. Anonymous

    Traded casting couch for type casting - finally, a role where coercion is optional

  6. Anonymous

    After a couple decades, I’ve learned the real “adult content” is the legacy monolith - tightly coupled, barely documented, and impossible to refactor without a month-long stabilization window

  7. Anonymous

    Career pivot: went from maximizing exposure to treating exposure as a sev-1 - turns out “public” is a setting in S3, not a business model

  8. @solwayfirth8956 5y

    😔😔😔

  9. @solwayfirth8956 5y

    God dammit

  10. @geminicross 5y

    I would like porn to save me from being a programmer

    1. @Nufunello 5y

      Just pay three hundred bucks

    2. @kitbot256 5y

      programmers in average get paid better

      1. @geminicross 5y

        And butt fucked more often

        1. @kitbot256 5y

          this personnel management practice is rather counter-productive

  11. Deleted Account 5y

    Is that Tina Kay? Did she actually retire? Miss ya

    1. @RiedleroD 5y

      got an expert right here

      1. Deleted Account 5y

        I wanted to tell him the same thing

  12. @Azhinu 5y

    В России есть только три пути: вебкам, наркота и ИТ. Героиня данной пикчи выбрала последний вариант.

    1. dev_meme 5y

      Speak only English here, please

    2. @nuntikov 5y

      Ты забыл про "Добрый день, вам звонит тех поддержка Сбербанка" You forgot about "Hello, we are calling you from Sberbank tech support"

      1. @freeapp2014 5y

        С вашего онлайн банкинга две минуты назад был осуществлен перевод 100500 рублей // Your online banking account initiated a transfer of 100500 rubles 2 minutes ago

  13. @asmotionua 5y

    Чёт я ее видел не в ИТ

  14. @Azhinu 5y

    Okay, sorry. As says in Russia there is only three ways to provide for yourself: porn, drugs and IT. This girl selected the last choice.

    1. @sssty1ish 5y

      porn !== webcam i think, right? or not

      1. @RiedleroD 5y

        porn != stripping down in front of a webcam, right? 🤔

        1. @sssty1ish 5y

          yep

      2. @nuntikov 5y

        Still a shameless act. So much so, that there are people who respect pornstars more

      3. @Azhinu 5y

        It's a similar things.

      4. @Dobreposhka 5y

        ofc they're different

      5. @arpanetus 5y

        camwhoring is no better than porn lol

        1. @Dobreposhka 5y

          they are all good

  15. @sylfn 5y

    (Why the fuck do I need this information?)

  16. @undefinedIdentify 5y

    What a mistake...

  17. @RiedleroD 5y

    that's a good sticker

  18. @RiedleroD 5y

    but aye, if there's foreign text inside a sticker, please add a translation.

  19. @deerspangle 5y

    Follow your dreams, be both

  20. @oh_so_pseudo 5y

    It’a real story about girl from Singapore. (Annabel Chong)

  21. @Dobreposhka 5y

    2 think so u don't beed to be looking like that

    1. @arpanetus 5y

      i don't find anything good in actions where females regret doing it

      1. @Dobreposhka 5y

        u can't know that females regret it

        1. @arpanetus 5y

          and they all do porn just because they like it, right? 🤔

          1. Deleted Account 5y

            that may or may not be the case

            1. @Dobreposhka 5y

              +

          2. @Dobreposhka 5y

            some of them - yes

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