Your job defines you
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 9:10 am
Yes, really, it does. Not so much if you're a car mechanic or a waitress, but if you're in any of the "professional" fields, you're type-cast the instant you open your mouth. Lawyers lie all the time, not only when they open their mouths. Doctors go home and do surgery on their cats because they don't get enough at work. And, heaven help you if you ever had anything to do with computing.
If someone finds out you ever wrote code, especially if you were good at it by implication (eg. worked at a known company), you surely must eat, breath, and sleep, and even sh*t silicon. I wonder how many more decades it will be before computers are treated as no more novel a tool than a hammer. No one tells you all their stories about using a hammer.
Gah. Don't mind me. I just got back from a party where I got cornered by a seemingly endless stream of idiots all of whom wanted to babble at me "talking shop" after they found out what I used to do. It was really only 3 people, but it was all in a row. Escape one, and another attacks.
If someone finds out you ever wrote code, especially if you were good at it by implication (eg. worked at a known company), you surely must eat, breath, and sleep, and even sh*t silicon. I wonder how many more decades it will be before computers are treated as no more novel a tool than a hammer. No one tells you all their stories about using a hammer.
Gah. Don't mind me. I just got back from a party where I got cornered by a seemingly endless stream of idiots all of whom wanted to babble at me "talking shop" after they found out what I used to do. It was really only 3 people, but it was all in a row. Escape one, and another attacks.
