So you want to be a computer programmer when you grow up?

[davo]

IT would be such a pleasant industry if there were no users.....

Funny cos its true

Sounds like fun tbh

I haven't meet you, but Im pretty sure there is something wrong with you. and its not a small thing either

[davo]

I'm a KBer. Wankers make my head hurt

And yet you keep coming back to KB for more. Fetish?

[ManDownUnder]

Try using lube.

Don't you make your own? (...cunt...)

And yet you keep coming back to KB for more. Fetish?

Birds of a feather....

[jrandom]

Nerds ride motorbikes too you know.

[ManDownUnder]

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LOL sitting on the fence between IT and management... I can't fault it

[sels1]

Nerds ride motorbikes too you know.

Yes, Ive noticed
So do accountants, schoolteachers, and rugby players. If we all wrote threads about our work the site could get a little busy. No offence...just an observation

[forkoil]

1.7 million lines of C++.

That's the size of the project I have loaded into Visual Studio 2005 right now.

What good is a fine-sounding hourly rate when you shuffle home every night with deadness in your eyes and no spring in your step?

I really just wanted to be a lumberjack.

Well the hourly rate prob DOES help but I know exactly how u feel. Once youve fixed a couple of these type errors the rest are just f*cken boring. Cant you write a quick parser in perl and change / highlight the problem code? Spending most of my time shell scripting now, actually miss C++, and C#, forget it, if I wanted Java I would have it.

[Finn]

Yes, Ive noticed
So do accountants, schoolteachers, and rugby players. If we all wrote threads about our work the site could get a little busy. No offence...just an observation

Wouldn't rugby players find it a bit difficult? They'd have to work both hands and feet independently. They'd also struggle with the helmet buckle too I imagine.

[forkoil]

Yes, Ive noticed
So do accountants, schoolteachers, and rugby players. If we all wrote threads about our work the site could get a little busy. No offence...just an observation

Also offenders and fencers.... vee talk only about zee motobiclist here, verboten!!

[R6_kid:Me]

I did two years of 'computer science' at Auckland University. I was mislead and told that i would end up doing lots of different computer stuff (web/graphic design etc etc)... turned out to just be java programming... didnt find that out until the second year though ffs.

Now i've got a student loan, and instead of being a pilot already i'm only just getting started, but im fucking glad im not a programmer thats for sure!

[jrandom]

If we all wrote threads about our work the site could get a little busy. No offence... just an observation

I know.



Sorry. Just felt like I had to vent.

And we do seem to have had a fair handful of threads over the years from people asking about careers in IT, so I thought that a fresh and detailed perspective from the trenches might be a useful tidbit to add to the archives for posterity.

[tide]

And we do seem to have had a fair handful of threads over the years from people asking about careers in IT, so I thought that a fresh and detailed perspective from the trenches might be a useful tidbit to add to the archives for posterity.

BS

[pzkpfw]

Sorry. Just felt like I had to vent.

Don't apologise - this is a community, that happens to have Motorcycles as its common theme.

This IS the rant or rave section - if you'd posted under "Sprotbikes" or something, then you'd have something to apologise for.

Cheers,

[EJK]

1.7 Million lines? omg....



During my last years practical test, 72 lines was what I did...
I'm quitting programming next semester!

Thanks for the warning Sir. J

[martybabe]

I'd love to get involved,really I would, If I had the first spiggin clue what you lot are on about. c++, c#. admit it, you made it all up.

Oh but I defend your right to post this,whatever it is, in RnR and congrats on the longest title I've seen to date.