My favorite toy as a kid (around the age of 9/10) was a rock!
Rocks are everywhere. Believe me, they are everywhere, I have held them, weighed them in my hand, swung them. They are everywhere.
However, the rock that I'm talking about was slightly bigger than my hand, smooth as marble, and shined in the sun.
When I found it, and after using it, I took it home and begged my mother to let me keep it indoors. Why couldn't I just chuck it somewhere outside? Because others would take it!
I'm not crazy!
All my past time (all the time I wasn't in school) I spend outside, and one of our favorite games was: a two-player game. Each has a rock. The first player throws his, the second player has to aim and touch the first players rock.
Now that you know the game, you realise I wasn't crazy. Finding the perfect rock that fits perfectly in your hand and it's just heavy enough to accommodate your swing was very hard. (Didn't The Dude have a bowling ball he kept home as well?)
I won few games with it, till someone banged his rock on mine so hard that my rock broke in half (even its insides were shiny :) )
So, hell no, I wasn't born to be a developer.
And you know what? Whenever I hear or read about amazing programmers that were born with a motherboard in their lap, I think of my childhood and, honestly I don't envy them at all. I also read comments like "it's not fair, others started early", or "I'm 12 is it too late". I think, I love programming, but I love my past!
I think at some point everyone should become a programmer! Virginia Woolf of all people, helped me realised I'm lucky to be a programmer. She wrote a diary entry about a lonely old woman that can't read or write, as a result when ever V met her, the old woman has the same things to say. V says if the old woman could read and write she'd have a richer life.
I know a lot of people that come home from work and just watch TV, or worst, they fall asleep with the TV on, I believe that would have been me if I wasn't a developer. Being a developer, banging my head against the wall and talking to the keyboard like a madman when code doesn't do what I need it to, has made me more curious, and more willing to be mentally active - even when I'm not coding, and even physically active.
Back home, when people retired everyone was kind of sad, "what will he do now!" When I came to UK, one of the support workers at school, computer savvy, retired. He had a radiant smile in his face as he spoke of his little shed with few computers and the plans he had.
Anyway, I wasn't born to be a developer, but I'm glad I'm one. And, I'd love to try my hands at other things at some point too.
Haha this was amazing to read, thanks for sharing! I'm definitely not 'born to be a programmer' either, but glad I ended up at this point. I always feel privileged earning money with what I do, and I love being able to build something out of nothing.
My favorite toy as a kid (around the age of 9/10) was a rock!
Rocks are everywhere. Believe me, they are everywhere, I have held them, weighed them in my hand, swung them. They are everywhere.
However, the rock that I'm talking about was slightly bigger than my hand, smooth as marble, and shined in the sun.
When I found it, and after using it, I took it home and begged my mother to let me keep it indoors. Why couldn't I just chuck it somewhere outside? Because others would take it!
I'm not crazy!
All my past time (all the time I wasn't in school) I spend outside, and one of our favorite games was: a two-player game. Each has a rock. The first player throws his, the second player has to aim and touch the first players rock.
Now that you know the game, you realise I wasn't crazy. Finding the perfect rock that fits perfectly in your hand and it's just heavy enough to accommodate your swing was very hard. (Didn't The Dude have a bowling ball he kept home as well?)
I won few games with it, till someone banged his rock on mine so hard that my rock broke in half (even its insides were shiny :) )
So, hell no, I wasn't born to be a developer.
And you know what? Whenever I hear or read about amazing programmers that were born with a motherboard in their lap, I think of my childhood and, honestly I don't envy them at all. I also read comments like "it's not fair, others started early", or "I'm 12 is it too late". I think, I love programming, but I love my past!
I think at some point everyone should become a programmer! Virginia Woolf of all people, helped me realised I'm lucky to be a programmer. She wrote a diary entry about a lonely old woman that can't read or write, as a result when ever V met her, the old woman has the same things to say. V says if the old woman could read and write she'd have a richer life.
I know a lot of people that come home from work and just watch TV, or worst, they fall asleep with the TV on, I believe that would have been me if I wasn't a developer. Being a developer, banging my head against the wall and talking to the keyboard like a madman when code doesn't do what I need it to, has made me more curious, and more willing to be mentally active - even when I'm not coding, and even physically active.
Back home, when people retired everyone was kind of sad, "what will he do now!" When I came to UK, one of the support workers at school, computer savvy, retired. He had a radiant smile in his face as he spoke of his little shed with few computers and the plans he had.
Anyway, I wasn't born to be a developer, but I'm glad I'm one. And, I'd love to try my hands at other things at some point too.
(You should read @lpasqualis article 10 Top Reasons To Have a Career in Tech, especially points 5 through 10 relate to what I'm trying to say)
This is the funniest thing I've read all day. Great job.
Haha this was amazing to read, thanks for sharing! I'm definitely not 'born to be a programmer' either, but glad I ended up at this point. I always feel privileged earning money with what I do, and I love being able to build something out of nothing.
What an amazing story! Shut up and take my
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