10:14 am
Ten AM, POOF I'm awake. I look like hell. I feel like a used chimney broom. I'm really very awake, though,
and there's no way I'm getting back to sleep in this state of mind. I'm not sure I can do anything useful
all groggy like this, but for some reason I have this urge to program something. What's a good language for 10 am
with little sleep? Hmmm. Borland C++ sounds like a good idea. I wonder what I'm going to make.
I've got to get something to drink. My mouth isn't tasting great. Okay, I've poured the last of the
Minute Maid ("Just like having fresh oranges crammed into your face!") into a wide glass, and
I'm chewing on the pulp. Next stop: milk. Orange juice and milk have never been a compatible combo. Not that
it stopped me from trying it as a 3rd grader. I liked mixing orange juice and milk because of the weird texture.
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Actually, 10 am is normal work hours for people who are employed. I'm going to send in these 5 job applications to
the University of Washington. "Web Interface Programmer" it says. I like the way they list socket programming as one of the
job requirements. Like they're going to want you to write your own web server. When I saw the job requirements for my old job,
I nearly choked. "7 years internet related programming experience"? 7 years? Uhmm.. 7 years ago I wrote a couple of stupid video games
in AmigaBASIC, and I was on a bulletin board with a sort of shell and email. Does that count? Funny, my co-werkers supposedly qualified
for something like that, and they were chumps! Even the guys with masters degrees in computer science. I may be having trouble getting
employed because of my reluctance to lie to my prospective employer. Well, fuck all that. Next job interview is gonna be "I need ten years
experience writing custom apache modules?" *put on condescending smirk, raise eyebrows* "I've been tweaking web servers for twice that, and I'm just a
couple months past 21! Once I ported the NCSA server to run on a microwave oven for laughs."
Ooh, speaking of microwave ovens, maybe I should avoid writing Java applets. I mean, Java is real big right now on the job market (For some reason. How many useful Java applets are there? 5?)
but I'm not sure if it comes in decaf or not. Hint to managers: Java is not an acronym ("JAVA") and neither is web ("WEB servers").
For some reason my old boss' boss liked writing WEB this WEB that. After he got fired, he left all his subordinates doing it. "Hey Andrew, could you develop
this WEB application?"
EAT a BOWL of DICK - MC Deuce, usenet pariah
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