I'm sorry to hear that. Well, you can become jaded in the normal course of events if you prefer. When that happens, remember that this article exists. It's g

I'm sorry to hear that. Well, you can become jaded in the normal course of events if you prefer. When that happens, remember that this article exists. It's good for tactics later, when you realize you can use it. I've been programming professionally for 15 years, and programming at all for almost 25 (now I feel old). I'm a fantastically skilled, experienced and versatile programmer, even for that experience level. I am, by any reasonable metric, highly successful. I work on very interesting problems. I work for a cool yet profitable company. I do code and not management, and I otherwise get the computer programmer dream job. I may be jaded by long experience, but I'm not bitter and I have no reason to be bitter. Patrick is totally, completely, 100% on the money with this article. Everything he says is true. Remember where you saw this so you can come back to it in a few years.