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And I love playing in it.
As a consultant, yes, I encounter a lot of jobs where I have to [pick up / clean up / continue providing for] existing software, and then there are the gems where I'm hired to architect and implement a brand-spanking-new development effort. Those are my favorite, as I'm not subjected to the necrotic corpse of an existing project, but get to participate in the conception (that's the most fun part, of course) and development of the project.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: and then there are the gems where I'm hired to architect and implement a brand-spanking-new development effort.
Those are the times when one gets to artistic or autistic depending on the person. 
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Mike Hankey wrote: artistic or autistic
And, given some of the people next to where I live[^], sometimes both at once!
Marc
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Awesome, there is some real talent there!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Marc Clifton wrote: necrotic corpse of an existing project
Lovely image, Marc. I prefer "stirring the dung heap of history with your tongue", myself. 
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary Wheeler wrote: Lovely image, Marc.
Just trying to get into the Halloween spirit.
Marc
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There are so many:
* You get to enjoy working in the nature.
* Simple pure life style
* Nothink like those evil jobs with slave-like hours and deadlines hampered by the boss
* You actaully help humanity to reduce bad zombyish addictions related to over technologiism.
* What Mehdi Golam stated in the post a couple of lines below...
* and the list goes on
Oh ... wait ... it's not the right poll is it?
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The trouble with people,
is that they want to hear only what they want to hear.
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The pluses I see:
Fun solving problems,
new things to learn,
nice community (i.e: CP - One of the best places )
casual horary,
enjoying technology
Not so agree:
Pay is good - it depends a lot on company and self-selling skills of the individuals
(potentially) touch millions of people - the more people the more probability to find morons, trolls and/or plain idiots
don't interact with people - it might be a problem if one isolated himself from the world and its tendences / needs
art form - coders with more "artistic" than "pragmatic/practical" feelings can end writing very "beautiful and nice" code that is more a pain in the ass than a solution for a problem
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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... in your family understands what you do, but expects you to :
- fix the remote
- fix the phone
- fix the messages on their computer
- oh, and this old computer doesn't start
- the washing machine is blinking
...
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That's the best bit of it for you? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The best bit is nobody understands!
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yeah. It's the best part for me too! But some painful when you are trying to explain to others!
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Addition to Above list
- Fix Calculators
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Fix every electronic device they can think of, even if the problem is not software related.
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That's so true.
"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul."
-Douglas MacArthur
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Mehdi Gholam wrote: - fix the remote
- fix the phone
- fix the messages on their computer
- oh, and this old computer doesn't start
- the washing machine is blinking
Hmm. I think I was born (or at least picked it up at a young age and in most cases without reading instructions at all) with the ability to fix all of that and a lot more. Although we did not have much blinking washing machines in the 70s.
John
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I know being a software developer is like a wrapping life around a Laptop, chair and a table.
No life, No Family...Just work and work for day and night.
But it is amazing feeling when I resolved hard problems and see my customers Happy.
and another thing is good pay 
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The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
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koolprasad2003 wrote: No life, No Family...Just work and work for day and night
It is the major issue with 90% of Indian IT companies (Don't know much about work culture of companies in other part of the world). I faced the same situation for at least 2 years and now, All is well.
You should look for rest of the 10%
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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koolprasad2003 wrote: No life, No Family...Just work and work for day and night
Time to look for another company?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Where could you find a job where you could drink coffee, eat bacon, use CListCTrl and be surrounded by chicks that want to have sex with you at any cost?
Life's Good working in IT...
(where's the joke icon when you need it?)
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Joan Murt wrote: be surrounded by chicks that want to have sex with you at any cost?
Are you really sure you are in IT and not poultry farming? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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If I have to tell, no, I'm not... 
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Joan Murt wrote: be surrounded by chicks that want to have sex with you at any cost?
That should be accepted as a the perfect example of "IT-dreaming" or "damm hard irony"
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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