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>Before I was born, my father somehow went from a farmboy to a college-educated programmer at a time when programming wasn’t even a “real job” (early 1980s). S
by jmclnx 2y ago
>Before I was born, my father somehow went from a farmboy to a college-educated programmer at a time when programming wasn’t even a “real job” (early 1980s).
Same here, I was a warehouse worker. I took a pay cut for this move, but I loved the work. Little did I know what the future held :)
Very nice read.
- gavinhoward 2y agoThank you for the compliment. I was not feeling very happy today, and that helped.
- dkarl 2y agoWhen I was a kid, programming was something I did to screw around and procrastinate my real studies. I saw it as one or two steps up from video games or crossword puzzles on the spectrum from "waste of time" to "valuable self-development." My dad, who hated computers with a passion but could see them becoming more and more pervasive in society, always thought that being "good with computers" would be something I could fall back on if I had to. He was right. That's basically how I ended up in my first software development job, which I enjoyed enough that I eventually decided to pursue it as a career.