I'm no longer a software engineer
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The discussion below made me recall - I once told someone I make software and she replied, "Oh so you design stuffed toys?" :doh: From then on I'm a computer programmer if anyone asks, even though only a small fraction of my work is actual programming. No blonde jokes please
I usually just tell people I'm a self employed graduate student because I can't hold down a regular job.
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The discussion below made me recall - I once told someone I make software and she replied, "Oh so you design stuffed toys?" :doh: From then on I'm a computer programmer if anyone asks, even though only a small fraction of my work is actual programming. No blonde jokes please
Them: So what do you do for a living? Me: I'm a programmer. Them: ....Oh...OK. Me: I'm in IT. I work with computers. Them: Oh good. Can you take a look at my computer. It's become slow and sometimes it won't start. True story.
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Them: So what do you do for a living? Me: I'm a programmer. Them: ....Oh...OK. Me: I'm in IT. I work with computers. Them: Oh good. Can you take a look at my computer. It's become slow and sometimes it won't start. True story.
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Seems very familiar... lolsigh...
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The discussion below made me recall - I once told someone I make software and she replied, "Oh so you design stuffed toys?" :doh: From then on I'm a computer programmer if anyone asks, even though only a small fraction of my work is actual programming. No blonde jokes please
I generally say I'm a functional illiterate ( I didn't finish high school )
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Them: So what do you do for a living? Me: I'm a programmer. Them: ....Oh...OK. Me: I'm in IT. I work with computers. Them: Oh good. Can you take a look at my computer. It's become slow and sometimes it won't start. True story.
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Damn you have the perfect signature - CBadger
Common misconception. :doh:
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL. I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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The discussion below made me recall - I once told someone I make software and she replied, "Oh so you design stuffed toys?" :doh: From then on I'm a computer programmer if anyone asks, even though only a small fraction of my work is actual programming. No blonde jokes please
Me, I'm a code monkey, this negates any chance that they will ask me to look at their damned computer or iThingy.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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Common misconception. :doh:
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL. I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
Here's another one. Them: So what's your job? Me: I work as a programmer. Them: ...Oh...OK. Me: I'm in IT. I work with computers. Them: I see. So you work in a call center?
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Me, I'm a code monkey, this negates any chance that they will ask me to look at their damned computer or iThingy.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
Many people would not understand what a code monkey means. But as long as you avoid mentioning computer when you try to explain, you'll be fine. ;)
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Here's another one. Them: So what's your job? Me: I work as a programmer. Them: ...Oh...OK. Me: I'm in IT. I work with computers. Them: I see. So you work in a call center?
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Damn you have the perfect signature - CBadger
:laugh: Just great! For some reason why I like being a programmer is because people can't mess with me given the fact that they don't know what I'm actually doing. :laugh:
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL. I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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The discussion below made me recall - I once told someone I make software and she replied, "Oh so you design stuffed toys?" :doh: From then on I'm a computer programmer if anyone asks, even though only a small fraction of my work is actual programming. No blonde jokes please
holy crap on a cracker - these threads have taken a turn for the ball-less. I'm an EE that writes sw. Period. I do it because I love electronics and have a deathly fear of anything at and over 120V. Do you people even understand the difference between civil engineers and electrical engineers? The civils build targets..... Seriously, the worse thing I ever saw was in the .com boom where anyone who could hack html - and I mean old school - meant the could "do software". Yeah, I said, have fun. Call me when you are serious.....
Charlie Gilley Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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The discussion below made me recall - I once told someone I make software and she replied, "Oh so you design stuffed toys?" :doh: From then on I'm a computer programmer if anyone asks, even though only a small fraction of my work is actual programming. No blonde jokes please
I talk with computer in .... language. Before 15 years ago I used binary language, but now a days, the computers get more smarter and some of them can understand C# language also. I basically command to computer to do something. :) :) :)
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The discussion below made me recall - I once told someone I make software and she replied, "Oh so you design stuffed toys?" :doh: From then on I'm a computer programmer if anyone asks, even though only a small fraction of my work is actual programming. No blonde jokes please
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holy crap on a cracker - these threads have taken a turn for the ball-less. I'm an EE that writes sw. Period. I do it because I love electronics and have a deathly fear of anything at and over 120V. Do you people even understand the difference between civil engineers and electrical engineers? The civils build targets..... Seriously, the worse thing I ever saw was in the .com boom where anyone who could hack html - and I mean old school - meant the could "do software". Yeah, I said, have fun. Call me when you are serious.....
Charlie Gilley Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I've been nearly electrocuted at 230V, hasn't stopped me from working on electrical / electronic projects yet. What I can't understand is how people can work on things running at hundreds of kilovolts.
S u n s h i n e wrote:
What I can't understand is how people can work on things running at hundreds of kilovolts.
I suspect the correct answer is 'carefully'
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I talk with computer in .... language. Before 15 years ago I used binary language, but now a days, the computers get more smarter and some of them can understand C# language also. I basically command to computer to do something. :) :) :)
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some of them can understand C# language also
Well, they can't! :)
Whether I think I can, or think I can't, I am always bloody right!
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The discussion below made me recall - I once told someone I make software and she replied, "Oh so you design stuffed toys?" :doh: From then on I'm a computer programmer if anyone asks, even though only a small fraction of my work is actual programming. No blonde jokes please
Here is what I get quite often: Them: What do you do for a living? Me: I'm a software programmer. Them: O so you work in IT? Me: Yes you can say that (but far from the truth)
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." << please vote!! >>
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The discussion below made me recall - I once told someone I make software and she replied, "Oh so you design stuffed toys?" :doh: From then on I'm a computer programmer if anyone asks, even though only a small fraction of my work is actual programming. No blonde jokes please
Go to Canada. In Canada you can't call yourself an engineer - software or otherwise - unless you join a legal closed shop. Most of the professionals I've met have been idle or thieving, but hey, once you get on with the rules you're untouchable. So, while I'm in the UK, I'm an ENGINEER, an ENGINEER by God, not by the grace of a little beadle sticking pins in dolls of free men and dreaming of jackbooted propriety and order.:mad:
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The discussion below made me recall - I once told someone I make software and she replied, "Oh so you design stuffed toys?" :doh: From then on I'm a computer programmer if anyone asks, even though only a small fraction of my work is actual programming. No blonde jokes please
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The discussion below made me recall - I once told someone I make software and she replied, "Oh so you design stuffed toys?" :doh: From then on I'm a computer programmer if anyone asks, even though only a small fraction of my work is actual programming. No blonde jokes please
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The discussion below made me recall - I once told someone I make software and she replied, "Oh so you design stuffed toys?" :doh: From then on I'm a computer programmer if anyone asks, even though only a small fraction of my work is actual programming. No blonde jokes please
I tell people I clean toilets for a living. That way the don't ask me to fix their PCs.
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I just find him very unlikeable, and I think the way he looks like a prettier version of his Mum is very disturbing.[^]