Prática de Shadowing: 80% of programmers are NOT happy… why? - Aprenda a falar inglês com vídeo
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You know that feeling when your alarm clock wakes you up at 6am
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and you have to go to work again because you didn't die in your sleep?
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Well, you're not alone.
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80% of professional developers know this feeling according to the 2024 Stack Overflow survey results.
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One in three programmers actively hate their job, while nearly half are just plowing through life shackled to their comfort zone.
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And that leaves only 20% with delusions of happiness.
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Personally, I could pound my keyboard all day and be happy, and that's why I found these results quite shocking.
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Programmers are well-paid, get tons of vacation, can work remote, and even when forced back into the office, they usually have nap pods and adult ball pits to help ward off depression.
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But apparently that's not enough.
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In today's video, we'll dissect the brain of the modern code monkey
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and examine its weird environment to find the truth about why farmers and plumbers are statistically more happy.
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And most importantly, what you can do to cope about it.
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It is July 29th, 2024, and you're watching The Code Report.
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Last week, the Stack Overflow Annual Survey was released with over 65,000 responses from professional developers around the world.
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And it contains a ton of surprising insights about the current state of programmers and technology.
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Not only will we look at this data, but also anecdotes from strangers on the internet to shed light on the underappreciated problems faced by those who code.
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Reason number one, dollar dollar bills y'all.
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Money can't buy happiness, but let's be real, you've never seen anyone cry while driving a Lambo.
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Programmers are well paid, but not as well paid as you might think.
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They say if you learn PHP, you're guaranteed a Lambo, but here's a reality check.
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PHP is almost the lowest paid language with a median salary of 49k, and to make matters worse, this was a decline from last year.
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The reality is that every PHP millionaire, like Zuck or Levels, is also an entrepreneur.
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The actual problem with PHP is that it's popular, and you'll notice that less popular specialized languages like Erlang and low-level languages like Rust earn better salaries.
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The best way to make more money, though, is to simply respawn in the United States, where salaries are higher, or learn how to talk to people so you can become a manager someday.
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Paradoxically, though, the depression rates are much higher in the United States than, say, Southeast Asia, so maybe it is true that money doesn't actually buy happiness.
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If you're getting into programming just for the money, you might want to rethink that plan.
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Reason number two, technical debt.
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The number one shared frustration among professional developers is technical debt, and this is what technical debt actually looks like.
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This codebase is ugly and flawed, but it gets the job done, so we'll just keep building on top of it because starting over is too hard.
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This process goes on for years and decades until the codebase is filled with to-do-I'll-fix-it-later comments, and when you run get blamed to find out why the build fails when you remove this one line of code,
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it pulls up the obituary of some guy who worked there eight years ago.
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That means the best thing to do is just not touch this code.
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We all want to do good work, but it's nearly impossible when faced with soul-sucking technical debt.
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But what can you do about it?
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Well, to be honest, pretty much nothing.
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It's no one programmer's fault, but a systemic issue caused by reason number three, hustle-or-die culture.
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As you write code, you've got TechLead pressuring you to close out all these tickets before the end of the sprint, who's being pressured by the engineering manager to ship this product by the end of the quarter,
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who's being pressured by the VP to execute on the product strategy, who's being pressured by the CEO to jack up revenue, who's being pressured by BlackRock to beat earnings,
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who's being pressured by anonymous deep-state trillionaires to fund interdimensional wars beyond your comprehension.
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The machine has to keep moving, and all this pressure is eventually released through the boots-on-the-ground software engineers, which come in the form of unrealistic timelines and expectations.
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Now, what you can do about it is quit your job.
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The turnover rate among software engineers is extremely high, because unlike many other industries, you can often make a lot more money by switching jobs.
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But you still might not be happy if you end up working for a corporate dinosaur, where you become nothing more than a cog.
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Many companies are so bloated with bureaucracy that it becomes nearly impossible to get anything done.
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When programmers have to go to meetings to schedule pre-meetings to discuss the agenda for the upcoming meeting about last week's meeting, they start to become disillusioned.
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Viktor Frankl showed us how a man can find meaning in life despite the most horrific of circumstances, like an extermination camp,
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but he never had to get programming work done between seven meetings with product managers who have conflicting requirements.
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Meetings might kill your focus, but ultimately, it's hard to be happy if you feel like your work is contributing nothing of value to the world.
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Now, even if you have a great job, a great salary, and a great boss, you'll probably get laid off around the age of 25 when you become too old to code.
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All the recent layoffs and the hangover from the COVID boom has black-pilled a large segment of the industry, but programming can also be very unhealthy physically.
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According to science, being chained to a chair all day is more unhealthy than smoking.
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But also according to science, exercise is one of the best, if not the best, medicine for depression.
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So that's an easy bug to fix.
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But even if it is true that 80% of programmers are not happy, the best way to cope is to realize that out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls,
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and the most massive characters are seared with scars.
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This has been the Code Report, thanks for watching, and I will see you in the next one.
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Vocabulário e dicas de fala para esta lição
Este vídeo tem 56 frases e 1053 palavras para praticar shadowing. A fala dura 4:43. O falante fala rápido, cerca de 224 palavras por minuto, então espere sons ligados e reduzidos. 83% das palavras estão entre as 3.000 mais comuns do inglês; vale a pena estudar o restante antes de começar.
Vocabulário principal deste vídeo
15 palavras do vídeo que vale a pena aprender, com pronúncia e significado:
| Palavra | Pronúncia | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| programmer substantivo | /ˈpɹoʊɡɹæmɚ/ | programador, programadora |
| salary substantivo | /ˈsæləɹi/ | salário |
| happiness substantivo | /ˈhæpinɪs/ | felicidade, alegria |
| developer substantivo | /dɪˈvɛləpɚ/ | desenvolvedor, desenvolvedora |
| unhealthy adjetivo | /ʌnˈhɛl.θi/ | insalubre |
| earn verbo | /ɝn/ | receber |
| shock substantivo | /ʃɔk/ | choque |
| suffer verbo | /ˈsʌfɚ/ | sofrer |
| guarantee substantivo | /ˌɡæɹ.ənˈtiː/ | garantia |
| clock substantivo | /klɑk/ | velocímetro |
| suck verbo | /sʌk/ | chupar, sugar |
| ugly adjetivo | /ˈʌɡli/ | feio |
| comfort substantivo | /ˈkʌm.fət/ | conforto |
| remote adjetivo | /ɹəˈməʊt̞/ | remoto, longínquo |
| decline verbo | /dɪˈklaɪn/ | declinar |
Phrasal verbs que você vai ouvir
| Palavra | Pronúncia | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| end up verbo | terminar, acabar | |
| find out verbo | descobrir | |
| lay off verbo | despedir | |
| pull up verbo | /ˌpʊl ˈʌp/ | puxar para cima |
Gramática neste vídeo
As estruturas que o falante mais usa, com as palavras exatas do vídeo:
| Estrutura | No vídeo |
|---|---|
| Voz passiva be + particípio passado — o foco está no que acontece, não em quem faz | was released · is filled · being pressured |
| Present perfect have/has + particípio passado — uma ação passada que ainda importa agora | you've never seen · have emerged · has been |
| Orações relativas who / which + oração — informação extra sobre uma pessoa ou coisa | those who code · guy who worked |
Pronúncia para ficar de olho
O falante usa 14 contrações e formas reduzidas, como you're, we'll, you'll. Diga-as na forma curta, do jeito que você ouve.
- Os sons de “th”: unhealthy /ʌnˈhɛl.θi/, rethink /ɹiːˈθɪŋk/
- Os sons de “sh” e “zh”: shock /ʃɔk/, vacation /veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, frustration /fɹʌsˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/, comprehension /ˌkɑmpɹɪˈhɛnʃn̩/
- Palavras longas — acerte a sílaba tônica: developer /dɪˈvɛləpɚ/, anonymous /əˈnɒn.ə.məs/, importantly /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/, entrepreneur /ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/
Como praticar com este vídeo
- Ouça o vídeo inteiro uma vez sem falar e anote as palavras que você não conhece.
- Comece na velocidade 0,75×, faça shadowing frase por frase e volte à velocidade normal quando ficar fácil.
- Grave a sua voz e compare com o original, prestando atenção a palavras como programmer, salary, happiness.
O que é a Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing é uma técnica de aprendizado de idiomas com base científica, originalmente desenvolvida para o treinamento de intérpretes profissionais. O método é simples, mas poderoso: você ouve áudio em inglês nativo e repete imediatamente em voz alta — como uma sombra seguindo o falante com 1-2 segundos de atraso. Pesquisas mostram melhora significativa na precisão da pronúncia, entonação, ritmo, sons conectados, compreensão auditiva e fluência na fala.