Awesome programming jobs
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Most of us have average, maintenance-type programming jobs. While they mostly pay well, they don't make for legendary status. If you are one of the few lucky ones to have an "awesome" jobs envied by the masses of programmers, tell us a bit about it here.......
Well I was at a crappy no where job last year August 07. Until the company started to lose money and they felt I was a added bonus and not needed (15 min before end of day). Which was very true i was supposed to do a software program for them turned into IT work with about 2 months of software development in 2 years... Anyways they paid me to read books and learn new technologies for 2 years which was nice and they gave me a 1 month severance when I left which was nice of them. Now I work for a good up and coming software company that realizes the importance of constant growth, coding standards, documentation and that things do take time (No real stress here). Couldn't be happier, went to palm springs last year for a Microsoft conference and i live in Canada. So hang in there, maybe they will fire you form your crappy job and you can get a nice severance and a great new job. Jordon.
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I'm a physicist/c++ programmer, and i write parallel supercomputer programs that simulate particle accelerators. Rarely stop learning!
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My favourite job was writing (some of) and installing the blending software for Distillers Company Limited (as in Johnny Walker Whisky) back in 1976. The pipework hadn't been completed and someone put the contents of a 60000 (imperial) gallon vat on the floor...
JDL-EPM wrote:
someone put the contents of a 60000 (imperial) gallon vat on the floor...
:((
T-Mac-Oz "When I'm ruler of the universe ... I'm working on it, I'm working on it. I'm just as frustrated as you are. It turns out to be a non-trivial problem." - Linus Torvalds
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Nah i work on ISIS at Rutherford Appleton Lab in the UK: www.isis.rl.ac.uk though i did work as part of a team doing a redesign for one of the accelerators in the LHC chain last year :)
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Most of us have average, maintenance-type programming jobs. While they mostly pay well, they don't make for legendary status. If you are one of the few lucky ones to have an "awesome" jobs envied by the masses of programmers, tell us a bit about it here.......
I know this may sound stupid, but I got into this business when I say 2001 A Space Odyssey (a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away). My plan was to eventually do special effects for movies. Somehow, that didn't happen. I think it had to do with not knowing what avenue(s) to take to get there.
What does an agnostic, dyslexic, insomniac do? He lies awake at night wondering if there's a dog.
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Scott Dorman wrote:
removing staples from various ferrets?
staples? easy. it is catching the cheetah that is the hard part
----------------------------------------------------------- "When I first saw it, I just thought that you really, really enjoyed programming in java." - Leslie Sanford
Catching the cheetah, what a fun challenge. The exercise will keep you healthy, trying to outsmart it will keep your mind nimble. To believe that one can actually get paid for that and program too!