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[rouncer]

sure thing, some people here are useless at programming, youd be suprised who with the odd posting actually can finish a whole game.

[Sol_HSA]

In all seriousness, I've interviewed random people and the happiest with their jobs seem to be those who ended up in said profession by accident.

All friends were applying for this school, so I applied as well. The only one who's still doing that as their job. Or, I was so hung over that I missed the entrance exams for other fields and this one was still open. Seriously. In one case a person was living rental in a place that was only for students, and he had graduated; he didn't want to move, so he applied to something random, and ended up liking it more.

For me, I didn't pick anything, and ended up programming. I've been relatively happy with it.

[gardon]

rouncer said:

sure thing, some people here are useless at programming, youd be suprised who with the odd posting actually can finish a whole game.

I love when people take ideas out of context. Since you can't relate to what I'm saying there's no point in discussing this with you further. It has nothing to do with intellect.

[gardon]

Sol_HSA said:

In all seriousness, I've interviewed random people and the happiest with their jobs seem to be those who ended up in said profession by accident.

All friends were applying for this school, so I applied as well. The only one who's still doing that as their job. Or, I was so hung over that I missed the entrance exams for other fields and this one was still open. Seriously. In one case a person was living rental in a place that was only for students, and he had graduated; he didn't want to move, so he applied to something random, and ended up liking it more.

For me, I didn't pick anything, and ended up programming. I've been relatively happy with it.

I agree. When you accept that you have no control over your life and just let life take you where it's going to take you, more often than not it ends up being better than trying to force your way into happiness.

Thank you for everyone's help. I realize programming isn't for me. I can't sit in front of a computer all day anymore. While I love the logic aspect there are more important things to do outside.

Gardon

[alphadog]

gardon said:

there are more important things to do outside.

I'm hoping you meant it as "...there are things that I'd personally rather be doing that writing software..." The way you said sounds extremely condescending, as if developers never do anything "important".

[gardon]

gardon said:

Thank you for everyone's help. I realize programming isn't for me. I can't sit in front of a computer all day anymore. While I love the logic aspect there are more important things to do outside.

Gardon

I don't know how much more graciously I can leave when I thank everyone for their help and note that this is a personal issue, since I can't sit all day any longer. I don't understand the confusion.

[alphadog]

gardon said:

I don't know how much more graciously I can leave when I thank everyone for their help and note that this is a personal issue, since I can't sit all day any longer. I don't understand the confusion.

It's just a heads up on how it sounded to me. Take it for whatever what it's worth to you. No hard feelings.

Enjoy your future trials and tribulations.

[gardon]

Same to you.

[TheNut]

Sitting down isn't the hard part. It's getting back up after a couple hours :lol:

[Enthusiastic for Sense]

I guess if you truly like it and can do it it's worth it to some extent.

Not everything has to be a career, you know?

Some hobbyists, unpaid, are better than professional programmers who work daily at their jobs for long hours.

Not everything in life is just a decisive passion that is taken in exchange for hourly rate pay.

Some may LOVE building things, do it as a hobby always, but that's not their career; not their profession.

I could build every day, but that's not what I work for to earn money.

Sometimes things are just what you love, do and enjoy. Money for passion isn't always life. Hope I'm made clear here.

[Stainless]

I wrote my first commercial program when I was 12, then wrote my first game when I was 14 (Got paid £8.00 for it! yippee) got involved with Codemasters when they first got started, hated working with them and gave up.

Went to uni and had to do a six months placement, ended up in a company called British Ropes which made steel cables for things like suspension bridges. Since I was the lowest of the low I got all the horrible jobs, but we had a lot of fun and I got my first experience of working in a real commercial environment.

Ok I was working with 1000 amp switching panels, if I needed a cable to go from a to b I had to draw it out by hand on an old fashioned technical drawing table, then send away for it to be made out of pure copper and wait a week. They made me do fault diagnostics on a wire drawing machine that had just chopped someone's head off, and crawl inside a lime kiln, they even had me prepared to go to Iran to commission a wire drawing machine there that had just been rebuilt after the Iraq's bombed it (luckily they bombed it again before I got there), but I learned a hell of a lot.

They then invested in an Apple II and had no one that knew how to program it. They found out that I had written a couple of games and put me on the job. If they hadn't I would have continued working with electronics, but after the month's of sh1t I had been through up to that point I realised that coding was the job for me.

You don't know what is right for you until you try, and you will probably change your mind a few times before you settle into something.

Don't worry, be happy.

[Enthusiastic for Sense]

Stop following me around, Stainless.

[Stainless]

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