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I didn't choose it. It chose me. I found computers when I was very young and loved programming back then.
Today after I get off of work, I program to relax. It's just something I have to do. I'm lucky that people will pay me to do it.
wow, your story is similar to mine.
I was introduced to computers when I was 7 been programming since I was 13, I'd say Programming Swallowed me for good reasons. Haha :)
Awesome. It's nice to meet a fellow addict :)
Honestly, coming out of high school, it dawned on me that it was time to choose a major. I straight up had no idea what I wanted to do with my life but had managed to get into a four-year college. I didn't want to go in as undeclared so I was literally scrolling through their list of majors from a drop-down menu. Computer Science was the only one that sounded interesting to me, so I went with it. After taking my first programming class, it was clear to me that I had made the right choice! Been coding ever since and now I get paid for it!
When I was going to Penn State, you could elect to go into "Division of Undergraduate Studies" ...which all the declared-majors referred to as "Dumb, Undecided Students". Dunno if you could actually graduate via DUS, but you could spend a significant portion of your academic career in that category.
Honestly, I thought the idea was magical. I wanted to be a programmer before I really knew what a computer was, and I got books out of the library about it before I even got a zx81 as a kid.
I still think that it's magic when I can type words into this box over here and something happens on a different box over there.
Technically, programming has always been an adjunct-function for me. I'm soooooper lazy and offended by having to repeat the same task twice. So, if I see that I've done something more than once or it's obvious that I'll have to do it at least three times, I'll automate it.
Especially earlier in my computing life, I liked to play pranks. Knowing how to program was a great way to make friends' lives difficult. It was also a great way to circumvent restrictions put on resource-usage (earlier on, disk and other quotas were kind of a way of life - if you didn't want to be so-constrained, it helped to know how to "route around" the constraints ...which usually required programming skills).
The only "pure" programming I did was when I was going through my games & graphics phase.
cheat atoptimize your game-play.Many of us will answer with 'it's our passion'. I agree that it is my passion but a developer positions generally have an excellent work life and environment. Air-conditioning, high-paying, the ability to work individually or group, in office or remote. Now compare that to a construction worker (no offense guys) who work in the blistering heat or freezing cold with intensive physical labor for typically lesser pay (not always).
sure thing
Its not a bad life and the money is not bad compared to other industries.
U also get to be the 'tech person' for all your relatives/friends :(
Holiday time: where the first day of coming home is taking care of a year's worth of tech-support.
It was offered to me at work, and I was interested. Fell completely in love with it now I want more.
To build great things with little effort. Definitely.