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Yesterday, an itern brought the newest interm by to introduce him to poeople in the area. When I looked at the new intern, probably an electrical engineer based on the area we work in, I thought, "He sure looks like a geek!"
Sometime later, I realized that is how I appeared to people when I started working commercially 30 some years ago. It was an indcustrial evnironment and my first assignment had me spending 3 months in a new area doing checkout.
One of the contractors left for a few months, and, upon his return, commented to someone, "What happened to Tim? When I left, he was meek and mild, now he acts like he has spiked hair!".
What was your introduction to the commerical world like?
Tim
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If it helps, it involved beer...
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It involved an automated chicken feeder and...
If first you don't succeed, hide all evidence you ever tried!
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You know you were never to speak of that again! 
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Yeah I know but no one pressed charges and statute of limitations has run out so I can finally can speak of it, but not divulge what actually happened.
If first you don't succeed, hide all evidence you ever tried!
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So that's how Chicken McNuggetsTM were invented... 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Old McDonald + McChicken + McWoodChipper = McNuggets That's all I'm saying.
If first you don't succeed, hide all evidence you ever tried!
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The wonderful whacky world of RFID, with systems (Alien I think...) that would some times crash leave the radio switched on and melt the laminate desk covering (I did use them as coffee heaters once that happened!), VB6 (don't use .NET as it doesn't work properly...) and others, learned a lot that has come in useful since that experience (mostly how to look busy, writing a CP article for one!), Code Project but I lost/forgot my account details...
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Came to work as a EE, I knew (or thought I knew) C and FORTRAN at uni, but was more of an analog hardware person. Very quickly, I was introduced to the wonderful world of assembler and tiny circuitry, the glasses became thicker, the hair shorter, patience for other people shorter....great, now I'm depressed. 
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Tim Carmichael wrote: What was your introduction to the commerical [sic] world like?
I didn't like them -- they kept interrupting my television shows. 
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Well, obviously, I knew everything - I was young, and it took a few years to beat that out of me...
Mind you, by the time I'd had that beaten out of me, I did know pretty much everything about what we were doing, so it could be said that it didn't have a lot of effect. I must have been a complete ass-hat to work with. 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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The fellow showing me around for my first intern job took me to the cafeteria where a lady comes up to him and say "Bob, I didn't recognize you with your cloths on!". 
Turns out the company had a canoeing outing the weekend before where they met.
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When I was on my co-op job I tended to wear a lab coat with floppy discs and serial cables and adapters in the pockets. It was very convenient.
I recall one colleague who kept calling me a geek (in a flirtatious sort of way) and I'd respond "I'm not a geek, I'm a nerd".
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Tim Carmichael wrote: What was your introduction to the commerical world like?
We have yet to be introduced. If they can survive the superbats, bottomless pits, and the Wumpus[^], they might find my cave.
Marc
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CHOMP!!!
You just got bitten by the underscore-in-link-getting-eaten-by-a-hungry-hamster bug!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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I started my programming career writing small apps to calculate step milling increments on programmable calculators in 1977 for the guys in the drawing office I worked with - this saved them so much time and effort as well as being sure it was 100% accurate they saw me as some incredibly clever youngster who knew how to do stuff no-one else had a clue about (as a 17 year old this stroked my ego no end lol) and meant that as an apprentice engineer I could get away with murder and didn't have to take my share of crapola that a lot of other apprentices got - I don't think the term 'geek' or 'nerd' had been invented then anyway !!
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My first day on the job, I was 19, but via creative Resume Writing it would appear I was PROBABLY 21/22...
My boss hands me a stack of work to do (PDP/11s).
Login/Learn the environment, read, run some programs, get some test results.
Look at this code and make recommendations on how to fix.
I stayed late that day, my boss left before me, I was ALMOST done.
I left, putting all of the completed work on his desk, including having actually
fixed the 2 programs in question.
He came in the next morning before me (A trend I continue to this day, LOL).
When I arrived, he gave me a raise, and explained that the work was supposed
to keep me busy for the whole week!
Best First Day on the Job EVER!
(now, after that, my cockiness caused some issues, but my boss took me under
his wing, and gave me the skills I use EVERY DAY to avoid mistakes/blunders and
to manage expectations)
Kinda been downhill ever since... Where is that whiskey bottle... I hate mornings  ))))
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I just came across some one's sig and it shows the quote "The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine" from 'Winston Churchill (1944)'. But Google takes me to http://funny2.com/fakequotes.htm[^] indicating the quotation is from Abraham Lincoln.
Anyways I believe the internet itself started as a politically recognized phenomenon only long after the periods of these people right? Any comments?
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Wow, this brings recursion, and irony, to another level.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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What? You didn't know that Winston Churchill was Abraham Lincoln in drag? That bit with Ford's Theatre was just a fake to hide his real identity from his enemies.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: Anyways I believe the internet itself started as a politically recognized phenomenon only long after the periods of these people right?
I think Einstein said this first.
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It is Leslie Nielsen who said it first. Actually, he was the first to say anything.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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