The ones with cute anthropomorphized animals going about their jobs in a fairytale animal society, posting letters and walking kids across the street and fixing cars in the garage?

If you can't accurately depict yourself doing your job as a drawing in one of those books, it's not a real job.

(I'm also a programmer, by the way.....)

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Dog hammering away at keyboard, in the other side off the wall an ATM is now working or a plane safely lands.

Am also a dev.

[–] IzzyJ@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

For real that standard just requires people be creative

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I was reading one of those books to my kid once and there was a pig butcher. I'm not sure how that's supposed to work in the lore of the book. Was he some halliburlector type or was he actually just a butcher. How deep does the analogue go?

[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

I feel like that's almost a macabre in-joke to the adults involved

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Isn't everyone on lemmy?

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I always thought those old scratch-n-sniff books were a better analogy. Scratch my code and smell the shit.