Thread: TI can't make razors fast enough.

Originally Posted by Bruno

I am lucky enough to really like my job as a programmer. I spend a lot of time after hours learning new things, reading books about programming languages / operating systems / ... to improve my skills and knowledge, and because I simply like doing it.

Hmmmm... I'm a programmer too. How many of "us" are there in SRP?
I think that a IT guy is the last guy you'd expect to use a straight razor, don't you think?

Originally Posted by Leon

Hmmmm... I'm a programmer too. How many of "us" are there in SRP?
I think that a IT guy is the last guy you'd expect to use a straight razor, don't you think?

Dunno. I am fascinated by C and C++, and especially the hairy stuff like partial template specialization.

I also like writing service applications and low level stuff to interface one system with another. I have written embedded software in assembly and C (2K of ram is enough for anybody), I have written applications for analyzing data that comes from a camera on a 'weather sattelite' (realtime analysis of images at 300MB/s), I have written kernel mode device drivers for real-time systems...

I don't like environments that 'protect me' from doing stupid things. By the same token, I have used a straight (well, shavette) since I was 17, and I have always been fascinated by sharp things.

Originally Posted by Leon

Hmmmm... I'm a programmer too. How many of "us" are there in SRP?
I think that a IT guy is the last guy you'd expect to use a straight razor, don't you think?

I'm in the IT.....I'm one of the annoying testers though.

Although everyday I wonder if there's something I'd be better at that I'd like more.

Originally Posted by LX_Emergency

Although everyday I wonder if there's something I'd be better at that I'd like more.

Me too, Alex, me too...

But right now I wouldn't trade my IT job that provides me good Euros for some less secure job doing something else...

Originally Posted by LX_Emergency

Although everyday I wonder if there's something I'd be better at that I'd like more.

If you can't see yourself enjoying your work in the future or having a satisfying career, then realize that you are still young enough to have a career change.
I've seen too many people in IT, hanging on to the job they hate because they are too old and there is nothing else they know how to do.

I know...I'm still looking for something that I'd rather do....can't think of anything so far.

I might start teaching classes in the company that I work for. That would be kind of cool. Who knows where I'll be in a year or two. Besides...what I'm doing now is decent enough and good enough money to stick to it for as long as I can't figure out what I'd rather do.

Originally Posted by Leon

Hmmmm... I'm a programmer too. How many of "us" are there in SRP?
I think that a IT guy is the last guy you'd expect to use a straight razor, don't you think?

I once thought about getting out and doing something else, but I got over it. I enjoy software too much.

I've been programming and designing systems for 20 yrs now, including early postscript firmware for laser printers, workflow systems for the insurance companies, and more recently software architecture in the oil and gas industry (oilfield operations and management, pipeline/tanker scheduling, refinery planning, production scheduling, and blending optimization). I've always been a bit of a Luddite outside of work. I deal with invisible abstractions all day long, and in between tracking down bugs in a 15M line system there's something comforting and reassuring about working with well-made low-tech objects.

Originally Posted by mparker762

I enjoy software too much.

I love software! But I hate, loathe, despise, the IT industry. I've seen too many projectmanagers getting promote to, and byound, their lever of incompetence...