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  • W wolfbinary

    What would you do if you couldn't program professionally anymore to make a living?

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    realJSOP
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    I'd roam the Texas hill country absolutely naked and make a name for myself...

    "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, 10/26/2001

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    • E Ennis Ray Lynch Jr

      Yes, I do now own a pair of gloves. Yet I am only here for two more weeks ... and then maybe six in January. This kind of pilot: http://www.pilotcareercentre.com/APilotsLifeDetail.asp?APLID=124[^]

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      Oooooooh! me too. Although the only experience I have is with that there Flight Stimulator, as my dear departed mum used to call it.

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        Oooooooh! me too. Although the only experience I have is with that there Flight Stimulator, as my dear departed mum used to call it.

        Henry Minute If you open a can of worms, any valid solution *MUST* involve a larger can!

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        Ennis Ray Lynch Jr
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        I became a real pilot in August. A few hundred more hours and I will be a legal commercial pilot. It will be fun.

        Need software developed? Offering C# development all over the United States, ERL GLOBAL, Inc is the only call you will have to make.
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        Most of this sig is for Google, not ego.

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          I became a real pilot in August. A few hundred more hours and I will be a legal commercial pilot. It will be fun.

          Need software developed? Offering C# development all over the United States, ERL GLOBAL, Inc is the only call you will have to make.
          Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway
          Most of this sig is for Google, not ego.

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          Jolly well done Fraid it's too late for me. Eyes shot, Knees crumbling, mind going. Now where was I? Why am I standing in the kitchen with the fridge door open and the cat in my hands?

          Henry Minute If you open a can of worms, any valid solution *MUST* involve a larger can!

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          • W wolfbinary

            What would you do if you couldn't program professionally anymore to make a living?

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            Training hamsters

            cheers, Chris Maunder

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            • W wolfbinary

              A contractor I replaced left professional development because he got burned out of it. I'm wondering what the signs are.

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              When u look at the screen and all you see are chicken tracks it's probably time to take a break

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              • R realJSOP

                I'd roam the Texas hill country absolutely naked and make a name for myself...

                "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, 10/26/2001

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                Tom Delany
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                John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

                I'd roam the Texas hill country absolutely naked

                Whoa! Now there's a mental picture.... :)

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                • W wolfbinary

                  What would you do if you couldn't program professionally anymore to make a living?

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                  ...no, I would probably apply to vet or medical school

                  Blog link to be reinstated at a later date.

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                    Training hamsters

                    cheers, Chris Maunder

                    CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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                    wolfbinary
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                    Thanks guys. Your responses have been the usual mix of honesty and humor I've come to enjoy here on CP.

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                    • W wolfbinary

                      What would you do if you couldn't program professionally anymore to make a living?

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                      Christian Graus
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                      Child care.

                      Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. "Iam doing the browsing center project in vb.net using c# coding" - this is why I don't answer questions much anymore. Oh, and Microsoft doesn't want me to.

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                        I'd roam the Texas hill country absolutely naked and make a name for myself...

                        "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, 10/26/2001

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                        Jim Crafton
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                        Walker, Texas Ranger, might have something to say about that...

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                        • R realJSOP

                          I'd roam the Texas hill country absolutely naked and make a name for myself...

                          "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, 10/26/2001

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                          Note to self: Don't take my wife very far outside of Austin next trip.

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                          • P Pete OHanlon

                            Who says I do now. Perhaps I program amateurishly, or perhaps I do it rakishly. To answer your question, I'd do something else. I'd possibly put more effort into music than I have the time to do now. If I had the time, I'd love to get a PhD in Astrophysics.

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                            Christian Graus
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                            music and astrophysics, are you Brian May ?

                            Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. "Iam doing the browsing center project in vb.net using c# coding" - this is why I don't answer questions much anymore. Oh, and Microsoft doesn't want me to.

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                              Training hamsters

                              cheers, Chris Maunder

                              CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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                              Vivi Chellappa
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                              Aren't you already doing that? Aren't hamsters doing the work of servers for Codeproject? :-D

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                              • W wolfbinary

                                What would you do if you couldn't program professionally anymore to make a living?

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                                Program amateurishly,

                                Life is like a pubic hair on the toilet seat... ...sometimes, you just get pissed off. .\\axxx (That's an 'M')

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                                • W wolfbinary

                                  What would you do if you couldn't program professionally anymore to make a living?

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                                  I'd like to be a model maker for a military museum

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                                    My first choice would be to become a teacher. The few times I've filled that role, I've really enjoyed it. My second option would be technical writer. I'm reasonably good at it, and like it enough that I could do it for a living. It's a little difficult to imagine circumstances that would render my programming skills unemployable and yet would leave the rest of my faculties intact.

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                                    Vikram A Punathambekar
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                                    Gary R. Wheeler wrote:

                                    My first choice would be to become a teacher. The few times I've filled that role, I've really enjoyed it. My second option would be technical writer. I'm reasonably good at it, and like it enough that I could do it for a living.

                                    Hear, hear! Another man of my own mind. :-D

                                    Cheers, Vıkram.


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                                      What would you do if you couldn't program professionally anymore to make a living?

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                                      I would go back to doing specialty optics for a while then get my consulting business back up.


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                                      • W wolfbinary

                                        What would you do if you couldn't program professionally anymore to make a living?

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                                        wolfbinary wrote:

                                        What would you do if you couldn't program professionally anymore

                                        Teach math or physics.

                                        "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham

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                                          I'd like to be a model maker for a military museum

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                                          Josh Gray wrote:

                                          be a model maker for a military museum

                                          That would be really cool :)

                                          "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham

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