Programming professionally

[Chris Maunder]

Training hamsters

cheers, Chris Maunder

CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

[pseudonym67]

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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[Tom Delany]

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

I'd roam the Texas hill country absolutely naked

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

WE ARE DYSLEXIC OF BORG. Refutance is systile. Your a$$ will be laminated. There are 10 kinds of people in the world: People who know binary and people who don't.

[leckey 0]

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

Blog link to be reinstated at a later date.

[wolfbinary]

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

[Christian Graus]

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.

[Jim Crafton]

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

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[Dr Walt Fair PE]

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

The PetroNerd

Walt Fair, Jr. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software

[Christian Graus]

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.

[Vivi Chellappa]

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

[Lost User]

Program amateurishly,

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

[Lost User]

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

[Vikram A Punathambekar]

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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[Ray Cassick]

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

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[Paul Conrad]

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

[Paul Conrad]

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

[Paul Conrad]

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

make a name for myself...

Have you already?

"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

[Lost User]

... and that name would be what? Bigfoot? and, can you really do that professionally?

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

[Andrew Pearson]

I would drink beer and beat up stupid people.

[David I Hunt]

Seeing as how superheroes do not actually exist, I'd become a supervillain. My plan is to build a giant orbital peanut farm in order to manufacture a 1000 meter wide ball of peanut butter. This giant ball of peanut butter would then be equipped with airfoils, retrorockets and a heat shield. Simultaneously, I would secretly amass thousands of liters of sulfuric and nitric acid at an underground facility located in Kentucky. Using genetically engineered super-gophers, a tunnel would be created from the acid storage area into the basement of the target, and then lined with Teflon. With a big red button and an evil laugh, I would commence the Master Plan. First, the giant ball of peanut butter would be carefully hurled from orbit onto Fort Knox. With 100 meters of peanut butter making entry and exit from the fort impossible, the final leg of pipe would connect into the basement of the vault. In a rush of pure liquid evil, the sulphuric and nitric acids would be pumped into the vault forming Aqua Regia. Metal security doors pose no challenge to the powerful acids. In a few short hours all the nation's gold will have dissolved, allowing me to easily pump it out. But since I just told you the details of my evil scheme, I'd probably just get a job as an auto mechanic.

I have nothing against VB or .NET; all Turing-complete languages are respectable. It just seems that some languages attract one echelon of programmers, and other languages attract an entirely different echelon of programmers. :P