Recently I had a reference visit at one of our customers that deals with industrial automation, think programming PLCs and what not there I had opportunity to ask about their job and one team, two guys to be exact, were developing logic for some smelting machine, I asked them how do they test it to make sure their solutions are working/are optimal. It turns out they do NOTHING in terms of developing logic itself, they just implement whatever requirements their customer sends them. They literally have a fucking PDF of some graphical sequence algorithm, like those you learn on day 0 of CS and they just translate that already step-based logic to step-based blocks in PLCs and it takes them a fucking month, PDF with 40-50 pages where each page is just a big rectangle with some step definitions and it takes two of them a month to implement it an that's not even including tests, which by the way are the most retarded manual busy work imaginable since they have to manually go through the procedure and test if everything works as stated, they don't even test for illegal input states or what-if-something-goes-wrong scenariosIs life really that easy in PLC land?
>>108502773>Is life really that easy in PLC land?yes thats why they get paid tradie wages, depends where you're from that can either be a good or bad thing
>>108502773The reason is very simple, it's a niche. Niches are less chaotic and demanding than popular fields. This is literally the best thing that you can do right now: find a niche, build an expertise there and stop worrying about getting replaced. I know people that literally are responsible for doing a single thing but since it's something weird, they are not bothered by anybody.
it's boring as shit and salaries pay shitalso nobody needs or wants your 1 line function that only you know how works >they just implement whatever requirements their customer sends them.all that's needed
Not even ladder logic?
>>108502773You sound angry, OP. Are you not enjoying the April fools prank life is playing on you?It's just a prank, bro
>>108503033they still take month to place around ~100 blocks in graphical editor, how easy they have to have it so their boss doesn't complain about 450+ hours clocked for something so simple>>108503226as far as I understand they do absolutely nothing except putting already solved problem into different language >>108503302it happened this monday, and I am a little bit bitter given how others can do jack shit and continue working like that for years
>>108502773I HATE PIDI HATE PIDI HATE PID
