[Shiunbird]

I am starting to believe that this attitude is something mostly related to how incredibly addicted to comfort younger people are. It is never about the journey, but about the result (preferably shareable) and fast.

I've been having a lot of trouble in working with my clients during my getting-out-of-IT-journey just because most people will only interact through Instagram and Whatsapp. No, they won't send an email. They won't even send SMS.

Getting out of where they are means logging into something else, learning a different tool, interacting and acting in a way that is profitable not only for you but for the other person, too.

My brother got a job as a general-assistant-of-everything at a middle-eastern country embassy in my home country. He takes photographs, books hotels and cars, updates their webpage with content, etc.. They sent the in-house translator a banner to be translated and printed at A0 size (huge). The person who received it opened it on the phone, used some phone photo editor to paint over the original Arabic text, wrote the translated text on top of it using on the phone and sent him the result via whatsapp. He received a 400kb highly compressed JPG.

When he complained, she said she did her job and if he can't handle getting the banner done out of the file he sent, it is his problem. This is the attitude.

Not everyone knows everything, but most people here will contribute with what they can, and you can feel that, even though there's a lot of asymmetry in skills and dedication, that everyone is doing their best. But when I deal with people at large, especially younger ones, it is mostly about getting the most of you, getting their results done in the most convenient way possible, and moving on. Interacting in Discord increases their social standing in that group and anything outside of that means little. They are only motivated by external validation, and there's little inner drive for anything.

The WSL1 experience they seek is convenient and gets the "braggable" results out fast. And, unfortunately, it helps no one but themselves.

I am really sorry you had such bad experience.