Should Programming be a life career?

Lost User

I only read newbie introductory dummy books.

Lost User

Sometimes.

Unrequited desire is character building. OriginalGriff

Dalek Dave

No, but it could be a work career. Personally I prefer to spend time doing other things too, like eating a nice meal, travelling, making love. Preferably all three together as it happens. Then there is extramural interests, hobbies, clubs, etc There is so much more to life than work.

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Henry Minute

That should be your intention. Life sometimes refuses to follow ones plans, however.

Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.

OriginalGriff

Dalek Dave wrote:

Preferably all three together as it happens

Way TMI!

Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

R Giskard Reventlov

I code for cash and have a life outside of work. Nothing should be a life career: work to live, not live to work - that's no life at all.

"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me

Nagy Vilmos

Probably did ten years as a straight code-monkey. Another ten years of technical lead and design. Now I'm doing management. Software is definitely a viable career, but just coding became boring for me.

Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

David1987

You joined the Dark Side?! :omg:

Lost User

spoken like a true code whore. :)

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Christian Graus

That's kind of a stupid question. I guess it belongs in QA, then.... Programming is a viable career, for people who can do it. Some people do it for a while and move on, some people try and are useless at it, and some people do it their whole life. No different to a lot of other things, really. A quick look through the QA forum will tell you that there's a lot of incompetent people making money writing code, so I think there will always be jobs for people who can do it, and do it well. The question really is, are you one of those people, and, is it what you WANT to do ?

Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

Nagy Vilmos

David. I AM your father. :-D

Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

hairy_hats

Michelle could easily end up covered in Dhansak.

LittleYellowBird

Henry Minute wrote:

Life sometimes refuses to follow ones plans

You got that right! :rolleyes: Fancy the Co-op taking Chocolate Eclairs of their '2 for 1' offer! :mad: Madness!!! ;)

Ali

OriginalGriff

I had a friend who did that after a night on the beer and curry.

Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

0bx

Programming microwave clocks or an automated laboratory on mars?

Giraffes are not real.

David1987

NOOOOOOooooo

OriginalGriff

Their chocolate eclairs aren't what they used to be. :sigh: The chocolate topping is too sweet and sauce-like - it used to be thick, hard and chocolaty...(and if anyone is reading that last bit out of context, you have a dirty mind)

Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

Henry Minute

Aye lass, t'coop has teken a turn for t'worse of late. Oi blames it on t great ambient sausage roll debacle. Them baint bin t'same since.

Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.

Nagy Vilmos

Calm down Ali, calm down. Here's something[^] to sooth you. Just add more.

Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

LittleYellowBird

OriginalGriff wrote:

Their chocolate eclairs aren't what they used to be

Even so ... I was hoping to cadge one off Henry last week but he'd too tight to buy them now! ;)

OriginalGriff wrote:

it used to be thick, hard and chocolaty...(and if anyone is reading that last bit out of context, you have a dirty mind)

As if that would ever happen around here! :rolleyes:

Ali