What will you be if computers weren't in existence?
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It is probably a tough question for some, especially since most of us across the globe, both young and old heavily rely on computers and the internet. Today, life would be virtually impossible without it especially to developers like us. To answer the question, I would be a carpenter, and a farmer then I would create a machine from wood that will compile codes made out of paper that will produce kernels of corn. :laugh: Just kidding on that part. Seriously I would definitely be an artist, because being an artist is having the freedom to express your personality through art.
Before I was seduced by the dark side of programming, I was studying to be an architect. At the end of high school (where we self taught ourselves how to program), I was looking at 4 years of college and 10 years of apprenticeship, or 6 years of college and 4 years of apprenticeship, or "I can program now." I was one that found programming incredibly easy, compared to others around me. For that, I credit my parents giving me plastic model cars, rockets, and planes to assemble to keep me entertained as an only child living on a farm. I learned the importance of following directions. Programming was reversing that, creating directions, instead of following them. Architecture taught me the importance of planning and design. Both careers start with a blank sheet of paper and then creating something tangible.
Psychosis at 10 Film at 11 Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it. Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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It is probably a tough question for some, especially since most of us across the globe, both young and old heavily rely on computers and the internet. Today, life would be virtually impossible without it especially to developers like us. To answer the question, I would be a carpenter, and a farmer then I would create a machine from wood that will compile codes made out of paper that will produce kernels of corn. :laugh: Just kidding on that part. Seriously I would definitely be an artist, because being an artist is having the freedom to express your personality through art.
... a mathematician
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It is probably a tough question for some, especially since most of us across the globe, both young and old heavily rely on computers and the internet. Today, life would be virtually impossible without it especially to developers like us. To answer the question, I would be a carpenter, and a farmer then I would create a machine from wood that will compile codes made out of paper that will produce kernels of corn. :laugh: Just kidding on that part. Seriously I would definitely be an artist, because being an artist is having the freedom to express your personality through art.
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Not sure, maybe a chemist. Hard to say, I've been doing this since 14 and never really identified myself any other way until recently. Programming has become such a part of me, I don't think I'd be the same person without it.
Jeremy Falcon
I'd take up my time building musical instruments of wood and string. Then on the weekends spend my time performing with them to sell them to passers by and young people who catch the music in their eyes and want to strike embers from their fingertips as well. Could be a better life for sure!
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please let it be novelist. can only image the things you would write with a mind that would write a response like this.
maze3 wrote:
please let it be novelist.
Sadly, unpublished though I'll keep trying.
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Why not be an actor? Then you could be any one of these whenever you wanted.
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
Hmm. I did try for that when I was young but missed out on a great part and went in a different direction. Moral: try everything you can; what have you got to lose?
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It is probably a tough question for some, especially since most of us across the globe, both young and old heavily rely on computers and the internet. Today, life would be virtually impossible without it especially to developers like us. To answer the question, I would be a carpenter, and a farmer then I would create a machine from wood that will compile codes made out of paper that will produce kernels of corn. :laugh: Just kidding on that part. Seriously I would definitely be an artist, because being an artist is having the freedom to express your personality through art.
I love this thread! Thanks Vincent! I had a drafting teacher who wanted to apprentice me to an Architecture firm. But my first love before computing was everything else electronic, so possibly an Electronics Engineer. Also was career military, so I'd probably have stayed. My career field there was based around seismology (it was classified as an Electronics career), so I could still be looking at wiggly lines. Maybe could be building things, writing, playing music (musicing?) or teaching. Of course there's always the possibility I'd be homeless on the street somewhere! X| :omg: That's probably why I like development so much: Every job and every day is different! Always learning, always creating, always experimenting. :-D
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It is probably a tough question for some, especially since most of us across the globe, both young and old heavily rely on computers and the internet. Today, life would be virtually impossible without it especially to developers like us. To answer the question, I would be a carpenter, and a farmer then I would create a machine from wood that will compile codes made out of paper that will produce kernels of corn. :laugh: Just kidding on that part. Seriously I would definitely be an artist, because being an artist is having the freedom to express your personality through art.
If computers hadn't been around when I was in high-school, I'd have likely ended up a woodworker, making tables, chairs, and the like. I did four years of 'shop' in high-school, and loved it immensely (lathe-work especially!) Sadly, I found computers much more interesting (and distracting!) so that's where I landed. Who knows, maybe once I retire in a few decades I'll get back to it... Assuming this Earth still has wood in 30-odd years! :laugh:
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I love this thread! Thanks Vincent! I had a drafting teacher who wanted to apprentice me to an Architecture firm. But my first love before computing was everything else electronic, so possibly an Electronics Engineer. Also was career military, so I'd probably have stayed. My career field there was based around seismology (it was classified as an Electronics career), so I could still be looking at wiggly lines. Maybe could be building things, writing, playing music (musicing?) or teaching. Of course there's always the possibility I'd be homeless on the street somewhere! X| :omg: That's probably why I like development so much: Every job and every day is different! Always learning, always creating, always experimenting. :-D
I did enjoy drafting in school (pre-CAD). But I fell into computers in the late '70s and started programming shortly thereafter. I shudder to think what else I would have done. Being paid to write programs for me is like being a kid and playing with 'tinker toys' or an 'erector set', except I am building logic structures in my mind and implementing them. And as a previous post said, I would have likely been a different person. All my friends have to work all week doing jobs they basically hate. I know I am absolutely spoiled rotten.
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It is probably a tough question for some, especially since most of us across the globe, both young and old heavily rely on computers and the internet. Today, life would be virtually impossible without it especially to developers like us. To answer the question, I would be a carpenter, and a farmer then I would create a machine from wood that will compile codes made out of paper that will produce kernels of corn. :laugh: Just kidding on that part. Seriously I would definitely be an artist, because being an artist is having the freedom to express your personality through art.
I'm also a qualified electrician. ...so I'd probably be dead because I'm too lazy to _always_ check whether a wire is live or not before touching it.
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I love this thread! Thanks Vincent! I had a drafting teacher who wanted to apprentice me to an Architecture firm. But my first love before computing was everything else electronic, so possibly an Electronics Engineer. Also was career military, so I'd probably have stayed. My career field there was based around seismology (it was classified as an Electronics career), so I could still be looking at wiggly lines. Maybe could be building things, writing, playing music (musicing?) or teaching. Of course there's always the possibility I'd be homeless on the street somewhere! X| :omg: That's probably why I like development so much: Every job and every day is different! Always learning, always creating, always experimenting. :-D
ajhampson wrote:
who wanted to apprentice me to an Architecture firm.
I've always wanted to be an architect or atlas an artist, but I landed in computer world because I didn't have a choice that time. :) Tale Of A Professional Developer - Untold[^]
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It is probably a tough question for some, especially since most of us across the globe, both young and old heavily rely on computers and the internet. Today, life would be virtually impossible without it especially to developers like us. To answer the question, I would be a carpenter, and a farmer then I would create a machine from wood that will compile codes made out of paper that will produce kernels of corn. :laugh: Just kidding on that part. Seriously I would definitely be an artist, because being an artist is having the freedom to express your personality through art.