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briandmyers  ·  3448 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What is your job, hubski?

    I'm a programmer in the financial industry

Me too, at the moment. Embedded programmer, credit card machines now, but lots of other devices in the past.

    Maybe once a year I have a moral crisis about working in an industry that I hate and feel is fairly detrimental overall to society

It could be a lot worse! I had to leave a job a few years back, for similar reasons - I was working for a company that made training gear for military exercises - weapons simulators, etc. Very cool stuff to work on, and all non-lethal - it was even stuff designed to save lives, by training soldiers in proper weapons use. But I could not escape the fact that I was in the war business, and so I had to leave it eventually.