Thankful to Be a Programmer
Is there any job like this one? Where everything you know changes at an ever-increasing pace, where the challenges of programming never end, and the need to produce quality is a constant reminder. I can't remember a time when I didn't love what I got to do, even when circumstances were terrible, or companies failed out from under me.
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I love playing music and cooking and even writing blog posts but writing code is something special. You get to tell a freaking computer what to do and it does it! Sometimes too literally but still there is a feeling of power, of mastering knowledge, of making something from nothing that only programming can bring.
