The world is changing, and I believe that, if I want to stay employed as a programmer, I'm going to have to change with it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.
Computer programming is pretty much guaranteed income. I'm good at it, and I like it.
I am a programmer.
Programmers work in bursts of productivity. Then, they let the brain rest and get back into it. A lot about the office world is not a great fit for me.
I am very happily employed as a full-time software engineer; I travel a lot, and I write books along with this here weekly TechCrunch column; and I still find the time to work on my own software side projects.
Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many.
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.
My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.
I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.
I'm not a programmer myself, but I am a very, very picky end user of technology. I like my machines to work they way they're supposed to, all the time.