These are more reasons I stuck with programming. Paper cuts were brutal at times, and I knew enough to avoid the big honkin' transformers in the old mainframes

These are more reasons I stuck with programming. Paper cuts were brutal at times, and I knew enough to avoid the big honkin' transformers in the old mainframes and mini's. Heard the story of the dropped screwdriver welding across the power supply... There's a whole lot of critical stuff in crude aside from what becomes gasoline, it just has to be handled well and every so often it goes boom or piddles all over the surrounding countryside.