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Kent Sharkey wrote: horsie-bowguy
This just sounds wrong to me.
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If you think that sounds wrong, you'd have to hear me on the chat when I send a bunch out. I seem to need to add sound effects for them (and only them for some reason - need to discuss that with a therapist).
TTFN - Kent
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You know how some people are afraid of clowns?
That's what your avatar looks like to me! Frightening.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Ah, come on, the snow miser is cool cold!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Yes, saw it yesterday on Reddit.
Very excited! 
Cheers,
Vikram.
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My tennis pro asked this, guessing that it would be similar to being a mathematician.
I said that was only one aspect, that more often it was like being an engineer, architect, detective, or lawyer.
What would you have said?
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It's like self-flagellation 
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It's too often like being a janitor.
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: It's too often like being a janitor.
that missed a spot, here and there.
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But we dress it up and call it refactoring. 
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Greg Utas wrote: But we dress it up and call it refactoring.
Unless I'm certain management isn't around in which case it's de![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) toring.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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I used to call myself Data Janitor,
Manager: "We need clean-up on aisle three. Yeah, some kid just threw up there." 
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It's like nothing else.
At best it's like being a composer or playwrite, but not really.
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Part time sanitation engineer, part time lion tamer, part time priest, part time vampire, part time snake charmer, part time psychologist.
Depends on what sh*t code you're working on for a project you inherited, which uses some front-end framework you know nothing about, so you have to pray a lot and suck the blood out of SO and otherwise charm the code into working while appeasing management.
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Yeah, experience in the dark arts is certainly a must for our kind. 
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Archaeologist -- I dig through the layers of old cities (Business Logic & obsolete code) to find civilizations, old clay pots & bones trapped under the heaps of dust and debris.
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...and get cursed for it.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Drain cleaner.
Quite a bit of crap has slowly accumulated over time in production code.
Suddenly, the flow, instead of gurgling through the cruddy* pipes, comes to a dead stop.
Somebody has to get in and clean out the gunk.
That is the job that falls to the programmer tasked with making the system work again, perhaps with new requirements thrown in to make things more difficult.
- Now you know why database commands are referred to as CRUD (Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete)!😂😂😂
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I'd have pointed out that math is more exciting
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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It's somewhere mid-range between being a Michaelangelo apologist sculptor and an herbal proctologist.
Software Zen: delete this;
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There are so many areas... there is game development, business apps, mobile apps, scientific apps, etc. So you'll get many valid answers depending on the area. Scientist, artist, magician, builder, engineer, etc.
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it's sedentary work. it requires continuous self motivated learning. Other than that it's like being a machine whisperer....
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There is a reason my title is Wizard.
Nothing succeeds like a budgie without teeth.
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Just don't Google what "Wizard's Sleeve" means!
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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