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[Phil Stracchino]

Dan Sikorski wrote:
> Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>> Hear hear!  There was a damn good reason I was a CS major and not an IS 
>> major.  System administration is fun, as long as no-one is bothering 
>> you.  Writing code is fun period.
>>
>> In my current job, being a technical lead, I need to wear my sysadmin 
>> hat, my architect hat and my programmer hat.  By far, the programming is 
>> the most fun.  I'd say the architect/analyst hat is the least.
>>   
> I think I'm pretty much the opposite.  I don't find programming to be 
> very much fun at all.  Maybe I have yet to learn a language that I like, 
> or have not learned one well enough to really be comfortable with it, 
> but I have always found programming to be tedious and frustrating. On 
> the other hand, I usually find the problem solving aspects of system 
> administration to be the most fun.


I find programming to be fun.  I just can't find anyone who'll pay me to
do it.  But then, bluntly, I can't find anyone who'll pay a 47-year-old
guy with Aspergers and in constant pain to do anything at all.


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