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Cabinet Making. Sometimes you make a beautiful finely finished product. Sometimes you make a plywood box.
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"Blood Sweat and Tears"
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A mental rollercoaster ride.
Just make sure you keep a copy of everything you developed so that when you need to develop something else a year later or more, you may be able to find the solution in your past applications; rather than spend hours or days searching Google only to find yourself wasting time because a large percentage of the posts do not work.
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On a good day, it's like being a mathematician. Usually it's like being a copy editor, and the text you're dealing with was written by a monkey and in some fake language that has rules so convoluted that you cannot remember more than half of the rules at the time.
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Dentistry.
Extract the bad stuff, fill it in with slightly less (in your opinion) bad stuff.
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As I tell people who need help with their PCs:
Programming is like writing a novel.
IT support is like operating a printing press.
Truth,
James
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I tell my kids that writing a complex C# program is like writing a novel except that if one word is misspelled then no one can read the entire thing.
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I compare it with manual blacksmith work: you have some pieces of code and are hammering on the keyboard til the mud (bugs) are out.
Maintenance is like reshaping a nail and support is horse shoe business. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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It is one step below being God: In what other profession would my Word create worlds?
And yes, I am perfectly serious.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Like being a combination of:
1 plumber
2 janitor
3 magician
4 flunky
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Artist or Creator 
I'm really bad at math, and while I sure would like to get better, it seems like I got a phobia.
But I got Google and the customers for any formulae they need in the system.
I believe that the most important part of my job, is to be able to envision the solution, and write readable and re-usable code, that I can recognize the purpose of, when I inevitably needs to revisit it 10 years in the future  (Not kidding, it happens too often these days).
"God doesn't play dice" - Albert Einstein
"God not only plays dice, He sometimes throws the dices where they cannot be seen" - Niels Bohr
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The closest thing to coding is writing geometry proofs.
You start with a given state or inputs, and you want to reach a different result or output state.
The non-coding aspects of the job are covered well on other posts.
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I was reading that the Pope has a lot of pets. Apparently, he's a cataholic …
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I wonder if that goes against his religious dogma.
"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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He enjoys talking with a llama as well.
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Is this part of canine law?
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I wonder if he has ever stepped on a protest-ant.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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this sounds like furry logic to me
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I told my wife I will get her diamonds.
Nothing would please me more, she said.
Well, ok then.
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So when's the divorce?
"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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You know where she keeps them?
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Talk about cheap. There's 13 of them in each deck of playing cards.
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