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There is a difference between having a job for a couple of years and a career; it's just about possible to have four careers in a lifetime - but not in a decade.
"If you reward everyone, there will not be enough to go around, so you offer a reward to one in order to encourage everyone."
Mei Yaochen in the 'Doing Battle' section of Sun Tzu's: Art of War.
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Young man, I was 36 when I took my first cours and 41 when I got my first job wich I prompltly lost 6 month later when the company run out of money in the big bouble 2000. A lot of experience and a lot of strange software later Im still strugling to reach that feeling of securety I felt in my first real position back in the 70s. But my wife tells me she won´t go for anything less (in terms of salary  I love solving problems and I think I am quite good at it but I won´t solve that, no I won´t solve that....
<? I fell in to the xml pool and ?>
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1. Travel back in time.
2. Buy generic domain names like download.com, computers.com, etc.
3. Sell them to Cnet for a big profit.
But yeah, I'd totally be a developer again. Either that or a pro inline skater.
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If I could do #1, I would only have 3 words on my mind: Gray's Sports Almanac*
*Back To The Future reference.
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That sounds like an underpants gnome's plan:
Step 1: Steal underpants
Step 2: (shrugs shoulders)
Step 3: Profit!
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The similarity is not a coincidence
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... and that's exactly the point. If I would have had some prior knowlegde (or even foresight), I would have quit my job after explaining this Internet and HTML thingy to the senior consultants and management who did not udnerstand a wahoota of it somewhere in 1996, started a company, sold out in 1999, and now live off some comfortable piggy bank somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle Thus, I might start again as a software developer if I could go back to when I started working in 1992, but I sure would not be working as a software developer in 2008
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A lot of people talk about getting a lot of money (the time travel thing is useful in that scenario) and then retiring. But the vast, vast majority of people who make a lot of money and sell out then spend the rest of their life (and money) funding and investing to prove to themselves that it wasn't a fluke.
I'm not sure that anyone can simply decide to play 'Left 4 Dead' for the rest of their lives and actually be fulfilled.
So even with a big bank balance there is still the urge to 'do something'. Why would it not be software dev?
"If you reward everyone, there will not be enough to go around, so you offer a reward to one in order to encourage everyone."
Mei Yaochen in the 'Doing Battle' section of Sun Tzu's: Art of War.
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I did not say I would not be developing software - I just ment to say that I would not be doing it for a living. I have a passion for software development - but it is partly driven by the fact that is the best way I can monitized my talents. I have other passions as well. After 16 years of software development I might explore them too. If you are financially independent basically EVERYTHING you do is a hobby, and hobbies may come and go in the course of a lifetime
Grtz,
Joost
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Fair enough! I guess I'm in a grumpy mood this morning and reading too much into things.
Stay lucky.
"If you reward everyone, there will not be enough to go around, so you offer a reward to one in order to encourage everyone."
Mei Yaochen in the 'Doing Battle' section of Sun Tzu's: Art of War.
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I smell the plot for a cheesy made-for-tv movie... :P
Sad but true: 4/3 of Americans have difficulty with simple fractions.
There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don't.
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If I knew then what I know now I would obviously be a multi-billionaire and so would not have to work for a living!
If I knew then what I know today, then I'd know the same now as I did then - then what would be the point?
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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I'm curious to see the final stats on this one.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it."
-Sam Levenson
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peace & serenity
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