Not calling yourself a programmer when you are one was always bad advice. The "high priced peon" thing was never about the profession, and always about the empl

Not calling yourself a programmer when you are one was always bad advice. The "high priced peon" thing was never about the profession, and always about the employer. in the 90s there was a generation of in charge people who really didn't understand the value of systems-thinking, problem solvers who were used to working with huge amounts of change.