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Well, either I would have joined the military out of college, which was my original plan before getting hooked on programming, or I would have kept swinging a hammer, and furthered my construction career.
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I was going to go in the airforce but my accident made shure I couldn't join. I could never get passed the physical examn nor withstand the physical trials I'd have to take, not anymore.
If my help was helpfull let me know, if not let me know why. The only way we learn is by making mistakes.
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I would have been a writer/editor or a book critic. I love to read.
Brett A. Whittington Application Developer
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If you ever set one up I'll come and work for you. I used to be a bookseller - apart from the poor pay, it was the best job in the world.
Me: Can you see the "up" arrow? User:Errr...ummm....no. Me: Can you see an arrow that points upwards? User: Oh yes, I see it now! -Excerpt from a support call taken by me, 08/31/2007
Deal :) I need someone to carry all the heavy stuff and speak to customers while I hide in the back and read :-D
Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis. I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.
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Book store owner. At least, this is what I hope to be doing in a few years. :)
Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis. I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.
Nic Rowan wrote:
Book store owner.
ditto, I would so LOVE to be that.
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook "There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance." Ali ibn Abi Talib
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For those of you that make your living writing software: Let's say that for whatever reason you never became a professional software developer, what do you think you would you be doing for a living? I think I would probably have been a chef but there is a slight possibility I might have been a commercial artist or an actor.
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I think I'd be a Nutritionist. I almost majored in nutrition in college. I am still very interested in the subject and think I'd be able to help people.
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For those of you that make your living writing software: Let's say that for whatever reason you never became a professional software developer, what do you think you would you be doing for a living? I think I would probably have been a chef but there is a slight possibility I might have been a commercial artist or an actor.
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i also thought about the AF but I wanted to actually fly and my eyesight is way too poor. Alas.
for my it was the 2 hernia's I have in result of my accident so... no way they where going to let me fly a muli milion airplane ;P
If my help was helpfull let me know, if not let me know why. The only way we learn is by making mistakes.
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For those of you that make your living writing software: Let's say that for whatever reason you never became a professional software developer, what do you think you would you be doing for a living? I think I would probably have been a chef but there is a slight possibility I might have been a commercial artist or an actor.
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John Cardinal wrote:
Let's say that for whatever reason you never became a professional software developer, what do you think you would you be doing for a living?
There was little chance of me not becoming a software engineer. But I can talk about the other possibilities, some of which I still actively persue on the sides. At first I wanted to become an astronaut. like many kids did. The difference is I knew what I needed to do, and I was already in elementary school training to do so. Then I got glasses and my world came crashing down to earth again. I started doing astronomy as an "as close as you can get" alternative. If I am never going to get to the stars, at least I can watch them and learn about them. This still occupies my time, learning about Hubble, following deep space probes, etc. This was exactly what my carrer choice was in High school before I was introduced to my first computer. So there as a better than even chance that was my direction. I had actually wanted to be an artist. Once I reached high school, I was forbidden from taking art classes by my mother. That went over like a lead balloon, and led me to my current career in computers. IF I had different parents, Art might have been my career choice, for better or worse we could never really know. Since things didn't happen that way, it is hard to do such projections. And maybe I would have come to computers from the art side rather than directly. Certainly the dual-capability has helped my career. I was already trained as a draftsman and an architect from High School. That was as close as I could get to art, so I took it and was good at it. I recently designed my own house, but I can't afford to build it, so ended up redesigning a few rooms in our current one. The builders liked the redesigns enough they are encorporating them permanently into their design sets. That is what happens when you turn an efficency nut loose on blue prints. There was a decent chance I might have chosen architecture over astronomy before I got to college. Since I discovered computers we will never really know. In school for computer programming in Tulsa, I put myself through school working as a gardener. That I enjoyed and it was good relaxing and pleasing work. There are days even now that I miss it. Because of that I am helping with the landscaping of my new house. I have drawn landscaping for others, and helped them set it up. I am still considering adding to that on the side by getting cert
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For those of you that make your living writing software: Let's say that for whatever reason you never became a professional software developer, what do you think you would you be doing for a living? I think I would probably have been a chef but there is a slight possibility I might have been a commercial artist or an actor.
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Hmm. I'm astoundingly bad at most other things... Driving trucks maybe? *shrug*
every night, i kneel at the foot of my bed and thank the Great Overseeing Politicians for protecting my freedoms by reducing their number, as if they were deer in a state park. -- Chris Losinger, Online Poker Players?
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I'd be in some form of racing. -- modified at 9:44 Monday 29th October, 2007 Or maybe a mercenary...
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001I would too if I had learned my current love of racing at a younger age, but I was trying to think of what path my life would have taken if I hadn't been so interested in computers at such a young age and what else I was interested in and have always been good at. If I had started watching F1 racing as a child I'd probably would have raced go karts and tried to get into some kind of open wheel racing series.
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I would have, and should have, been a lawyer. I'm still trying to get a law degree now, at 38.
My dad had always wanted to be a lawyer, then he had a family and started working in the bush as a logger and in various other jobs in the forestry industry. In his 40's he decided he wanted to become a lawyer again, finished his high school, went to college and then university and now he's a writer and teaches translation courses at university and no longer has any interest in being a lawyer, but it took him on the path he's on now.
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Being a carpenter would've been fun, I think.
Yeah absolutely. When I was younger I did a *lot* of jobs that involved working with my hands and building things. There's a kind of satisfaction in it that you can never get from writing software and the comraderie of your co-workers is entirely different and loads more fun than in any office job I've ever had.
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John Cardinal wrote:
Let's say that for whatever reason you never became a professional software developer, what do you think you would you be doing for a living?
There was little chance of me not becoming a software engineer. But I can talk about the other possibilities, some of which I still actively persue on the sides. At first I wanted to become an astronaut. like many kids did. The difference is I knew what I needed to do, and I was already in elementary school training to do so. Then I got glasses and my world came crashing down to earth again. I started doing astronomy as an "as close as you can get" alternative. If I am never going to get to the stars, at least I can watch them and learn about them. This still occupies my time, learning about Hubble, following deep space probes, etc. This was exactly what my carrer choice was in High school before I was introduced to my first computer. So there as a better than even chance that was my direction. I had actually wanted to be an artist. Once I reached high school, I was forbidden from taking art classes by my mother. That went over like a lead balloon, and led me to my current career in computers. IF I had different parents, Art might have been my career choice, for better or worse we could never really know. Since things didn't happen that way, it is hard to do such projections. And maybe I would have come to computers from the art side rather than directly. Certainly the dual-capability has helped my career. I was already trained as a draftsman and an architect from High School. That was as close as I could get to art, so I took it and was good at it. I recently designed my own house, but I can't afford to build it, so ended up redesigning a few rooms in our current one. The builders liked the redesigns enough they are encorporating them permanently into their design sets. That is what happens when you turn an efficency nut loose on blue prints. There was a decent chance I might have chosen architecture over astronomy before I got to college. Since I discovered computers we will never really know. In school for computer programming in Tulsa, I put myself through school working as a gardener. That I enjoyed and it was good relaxing and pleasing work. There are days even now that I miss it. Because of that I am helping with the landscaping of my new house. I have drawn landscaping for others, and helped them set it up. I am still considering adding to that on the side by getting cert
El Corazon wrote:
The difference is I knew what I needed to do, and I was already in elementary school training to do so. Then I got glasses and my world came crashing down to earth again.
You too huh? :( :sigh:
"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual." - Frank Herbert
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chemist, probably
When I was a wee lad I had a chemistry set and an electronics kit. The chemistry set had a little alcohol burner, lot's of glass tube and instructions on blowing your own test tubes and beakers and stuff. Also loads of chemicals and plans for making bombs, smoke and explosive variety, growing crystals, making cosmetics, Gibberelic acid to be used to mutate plants in thier seeds and grow to see what mutants arose. Loads of cool interesting and highly dangerous stuff. Just try and buy a chemistry set these days. There was a piece on Wired Science the other day about the demise of the good old chemistry set and even schools now are having trouble just getting the chemicals for labs. Chemistry (in North America) is a dying profession as a result.
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In the town where I grew up for a while everyone wanted to be a vet, particularly the girls because of some series of books written about an English vet (I think) that were really popular at the time. It would be a great job in the country in an area with a lot of smaller farms. Probably not so much fun in a place where you dealt with factory style farms a lot though.
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My dad had always wanted to be a lawyer, then he had a family and started working in the bush as a logger and in various other jobs in the forestry industry. In his 40's he decided he wanted to become a lawyer again, finished his high school, went to college and then university and now he's a writer and teaches translation courses at university and no longer has any interest in being a lawyer, but it took him on the path he's on now.
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I'm also interested in writing. Maybe my studies will take me somewhere else as well. At the moment I would like very much to reach a level as a consultant developer that enables me to do a semester full time at varsity. Who knows what I'll run into then.
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I would too if I had learned my current love of racing at a younger age, but I was trying to think of what path my life would have taken if I hadn't been so interested in computers at such a young age and what else I was interested in and have always been good at. If I had started watching F1 racing as a child I'd probably would have raced go karts and tried to get into some kind of open wheel racing series.
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John Cardinal wrote:
F1 racing
I said "racing", not "parade laps". :)
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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John Cardinal wrote:
Let's say that for whatever reason you never became a professional software developer, what do you think you would you be doing for a living?
There was little chance of me not becoming a software engineer. But I can talk about the other possibilities, some of which I still actively persue on the sides. At first I wanted to become an astronaut. like many kids did. The difference is I knew what I needed to do, and I was already in elementary school training to do so. Then I got glasses and my world came crashing down to earth again. I started doing astronomy as an "as close as you can get" alternative. If I am never going to get to the stars, at least I can watch them and learn about them. This still occupies my time, learning about Hubble, following deep space probes, etc. This was exactly what my carrer choice was in High school before I was introduced to my first computer. So there as a better than even chance that was my direction. I had actually wanted to be an artist. Once I reached high school, I was forbidden from taking art classes by my mother. That went over like a lead balloon, and led me to my current career in computers. IF I had different parents, Art might have been my career choice, for better or worse we could never really know. Since things didn't happen that way, it is hard to do such projections. And maybe I would have come to computers from the art side rather than directly. Certainly the dual-capability has helped my career. I was already trained as a draftsman and an architect from High School. That was as close as I could get to art, so I took it and was good at it. I recently designed my own house, but I can't afford to build it, so ended up redesigning a few rooms in our current one. The builders liked the redesigns enough they are encorporating them permanently into their design sets. That is what happens when you turn an efficency nut loose on blue prints. There was a decent chance I might have chosen architecture over astronomy before I got to college. Since I discovered computers we will never really know. In school for computer programming in Tulsa, I put myself through school working as a gardener. That I enjoyed and it was good relaxing and pleasing work. There are days even now that I miss it. Because of that I am helping with the landscaping of my new house. I have drawn landscaping for others, and helped them set it up. I am still considering adding to that on the side by getting cert
Yeah, now that you mention it, landscaping would have been a good choice for me as well. That's the problem with having so many diverse interests, it's hard to settle on one. My dad has always been a proponent about learning about everything in the world around you and had me interested in just about anything under the sun at a young age. My parents were the opposite, we grew up in a hippyish country area and telling your kids what they should do was *NOT DONE* at all. It was more like show them every possible thing in the world they could do, then let them loose and hope they don't end up growing pot for a living. :) I think it worked out quite well for most of the people I know from that area. Most of us gravitated towards stuff we were interested in and made a career out of it.
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Hmm. I'm astoundingly bad at most other things... Driving trucks maybe? *shrug*
every night, i kneel at the foot of my bed and thank the Great Overseeing Politicians for protecting my freedoms by reducing their number, as if they were deer in a state park. -- Chris Losinger, Online Poker Players?
When I left home and lived in my first city I had a nearly overwhelming urge to become a bicycle courier after watching them zipping through traffic and being all cool and gnarly at their hangouts at espresso shops.
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