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My parents were similar (I played trombone, though I was terrible at it. Or I felt I was anyway). One interesting thing, is the thing I am best at, I had to sn
by girvo 4y ago
My parents were similar (I played trombone, though I was terrible at it. Or I felt I was anyway).
One interesting thing, is the thing I am best at, I had to sneak and scrape and fight tooth and nail to do, which was learn to program on our PC: the thing that is my life and career now two decades on.
I've been programming my whole life, but all throughout my childhood my parents hated the idea of me spending my time on the computer tapping away at GameMaker v4 and work through QBasic and the C++ book a family friend gave me (I think I was using the Digital Mars compiler at the time?).
- piperswe 4y agoSame story here - my parents fought the uphill battle until they ran out of steam to try and get me to do anything else, but my career has basically shut them up on that now
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- redshirtrob 4y agoHello there. That's eerily familiar. For me it was sports (although I was quite good at baseball and soccer) and Turbo Pascal. My parents, especially my Mom, put up a huge resistance to me programming. I had to promise to try out for the HS basketball team (easily my worst sport) to get a computer. I'd been cut the previous two years so of course I barely made the team that time. My Mom was convinced I was sitting in the computer room playing games. When I told her: "No, I was programming", she asked what I was programming. Of course I told her I was writing a game, as all kids learning to program were. She responded: "See! Games!" as though she'd somehow proven her point. But, like you, I've made my career from programming and it's treated me quite well for the most part.