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The most important step I ever did in my professional life was becoming a freelancer.
Yes, it gives you less security, the risk is somewhat higher, there are (few) days where you're working for 10-12 hours, but there are also (many) days where you can decide not to work at all (or at least not for a contractor who pays you...).
But the most important thing for me is that you have substantially more autonomy and freedom - and this definitely counts much more in my book than having piles of money...
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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
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Thomas Weller wrote: But the most important thing for me is that you have substantially more autonomy and freedom - and this definitely counts much more in my book than having piles of money...
Well I respect your freedom thoughts and based on that once would dream to have work with company which delivers part freedom and part security as well, else money is the only last thing that one need to Roll on else the other two have their own Importance in once life. However that vary person to person.
Have my 5 for your freedom.
Believe Yourself™
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This is not fair 
Best regards,
Paul.
Jesus Christ is LOVE! Please tell somebody.
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I see someone mentioned RIM in the text answers. Would that be a RIM job then? *ducks*
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Looking at the text answers, it seems there should have been another option called: Adult entertainment industry.
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Whenever I see doofuses playing with their Crackberries, I think to myself that all they're doing is RIMing.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction.
My work here is done.
or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H
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If I were in the UK I'd apply at The Guardian. They are doing some interesting work with journalism and news data. Semantic web (both big and small s) and also user interaction for, amongst other things, defeating DOFOI (Denial Of Freedom Of Information) attacks (where you request something via FOI and the government tries to bury you in a mountain of documentation.) And Simon Willison works there, interesting guy.
Not sure I'd like to work for Apple even though I like their hardware and, some, of their software (can't stand iLife.) Seems a bit too paranoid in there and it's Steve's way or the highway.
Google could be interesting but I'd be worried I'd be just one more worker ant pecking away at their tagline ("to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful") with little to show for it. Plus I'm rather crap at algorithmic approaches to problems. Go figure.
Microsoft has an awesome R&D section but I think they've had their time. No more interesting times at Microsoft.
IBM, Oracle, SalesForce etc. are too enterprise focused. I like consumer systems, *less* horse-trading.
I voted Myself mainly because I'd like to give it a try someday, see if I have the balls to go it alone.
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luisnike19
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A colleague of mine got a mission patch the other week for helping NASA out with a satellite relay. When I saw it I was overcome, how cool is a real mission patch for a software/hardware guy.
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That's a great task! Software is everywhere. 
luisnike19
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Oooooooh! I never thought of that one. Put me down, too!
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I have thought about that one however I prefer to write lots of code instead of writing a few lines of code and spending most of the time proving the code has 0 bugs.
John
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If it wasn't for their major operations centers all being located in hellholes (Florida, Alabama, Texas: saunas; DC, California: local insanity) Nasa'd be high on my dream employer list.
3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18
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But, but don't the space systems run on 386s or something. They have to be 100% reliable, no compromise no leeway. I like a little flexibility on the assessment of my work and I'm glad a bug just irritates the user instead of potentially killing them!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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The boss is a really nice guy, lets me have off any days I need and vacation plan is awesome...most the time.
But when there's a dead line he's an uncompromising SOB that demands it be done on time and right. If I get behind he makes me work ungodly hours for little or no pay and feeds me junk.
As long as I keep him happy he treats me good and stays off my assuming that everything goes right that is.
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That is what I am planning to do next year - work for myself, and why not? 
Best regards,
Paul.
Jesus Christ is LOVE! Please tell somebody.
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.... but my Spawny brother got a job sorting the pictures for the Anne Summer's website 
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He told me it was hard going........
Dave
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Not at all, it was easy getting up in the morning, by all accounts.
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I couldn't afford to pay them much though...
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
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Myself? I wouldn't worry about paying them.
I would simply allow their models to pleasure themselves with my . . .
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Looks like we all made some jobless uni-voter jealous.
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Are you saying you'd do some pro-bono work for them?
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And they have contacted me in the past. Although I have good job security in the current job.
John
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PHP ??? 
No, Just kidding...
I would like to work for myself (which I was doing couple of years back), and as a backup plan: Microsoft. 
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