To Geek Or Not To Geek
April 13th, 2007
Today, I had an interesting discussion with some of my collegues about the life of a software engineer. My two cents:
1) the amount of fun one can have doing X is inversely proportional to how many people can do X, where X can be anything from watching TV to writing prototype.js.
2) the amount of money that one can demand and, more importantly, get is inversely proportional to how many people can do his/her job.
Well, the point that I was trying to make is that unless you are "Master of Your Domain" you can't have real fun or make real good money in a job.
To me, the second point is pretty obvious and the first one is an interesting way to look at things. The first one is actually a rebuttal to all those guys who think that geeks are missing out on funs in life.
This must be an exaggeration but the kind of "high" that Sam Stephenson would have got from writing prototype.js would need a lifetime supply of crack otherwise.
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