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The prestige comes as soon as I go for the details as the new Hardware, a lot of coffee and some snacks, the friendly collegues that help me troubelshooting every Technology Problem, reading and chatting in the internet and the overall payment package and my working time. 
Greetings from Germany
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Work in a turkey factory for awhile and suddenly programming seems glamorous.
For a start, unlike Turkey factories (and other), you can take a break when you like, you control how your day goes.
You wanna grab a coffee? Then grab a coffee.
You wanna grab a sandwich, then grab a sandwich.
You wanna spend an hour learning how to communicate over the web programatically, do so.
In factories, they look forward to lunchtime, mine just comes and goes without me noticing sommost of the time, and that's out of choice.
If you're even half good at what you do, your employers have to work to keep you, because the demand for programmers is very strong. Unlike bog standard assembly line factories, where people are hired and fired like safety matches.
You get to work with and learn from intelligent and talented people, rather than people on probation, and people who left school before their exams started and thinks reading the Sun newspaper is an intellectual pastime.
You possibly get to see your work on sale, or see it's influence when you go on holiday to the opposite side of the planet. 
Yeahhhh, I'd say it was glamorous.
Ben Glancy
Software Developer
Articad Ltd
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Youre completly right, working in a Turkey factory isnt as good as programming.
The poor animals which got slaughtered. (But I like eating meat a really big lot)
Greetings from Germany
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I used to work for a chicken factory. 
Seriously, I was on a team that wrote all the software for the scales, pricing, inventory, scheduling, and everything else that's needed for a factory to run.
Got 10% of my pay in Chickens. :-P
It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realise how often they burst into flames.
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The exception to the turkey factory rule then!
Ben Glancy
Software Developer
Articad Ltd
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you could apply this for pretty much any unskilled (or semi-skilled) or manual labor job. I was an electrician for 7 years before I went back to school and got a degree (always done programming, just hard to get a job w/ no degree), and I'd say its pretty much the same in that industry.
you got my 5.
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Don't freelance electricians/plumbers etc have a glamorous lifestyle? It always seems they do.
Regarding programming, I suppose it depends where you work.
Companies like EA like to talk of glamour, when they really mean a never ending stream of meetings, HR gatherings (a promotion scheme for the line managers), annoying persistent weekly catchups and extensive overtime. Completely over the top in my opinion. The only word I can think of to describe it is erm... "pesky"
Ben Glancy
Software Developer
Articad Ltd
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ArtiBen wrote: Don't freelance electricians/plumbers etc have a glamorous lifestyle?
only in porno's.
Texas (where I live) is very hot most of the time, and working outside in the heat sucks. running my own business paid very well, but I never slept easy at night knowing that if any building I was in ever burned down, I would be the sole scapegoat (arent fires usually blamed on bad wiring?), and did I carry enough insurance to cover that.
nothing like software disclaimers!
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