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Now if only I could find a job doing this (psychedelia.ink)

submitted 7 months ago by influence1123@psychedelia.ink to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[-] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 21 points 7 months ago

In 1958, a self-described 42-year-old kid named Robert Paul Smith penned a little book titled How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself (public library), which his wife Elinor, an accomplished author herself, illustrated — a delightful field guide to hacking household objects and making mischievous contraptions from nature’s gifts, long before the rise of hacker culture and the modern Maker Movement.

[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 4 points 7 months ago

“Nothing, nobody, all alone”

So he and his wife did it together. Then publicized it for the world. So op can share it on social medias /s

[-] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

[-] Thewhizard@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

I had a job that felt like this sometimes, as a contractor for a federal gov’t agency, and I hated it. Be careful what you wish for…

[-] psud@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I worked in a system development area years ago. It was an annual income tax system. The designers designed for about half a year; the build people made the code over an overlapping half a year; test tested the code over about half a year.

Whatever you did, you worked half a year, and were idle half a year

This was after the internet, but before we had internet to the desk. It was before smart phones, before cell phones

It was terrible.