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To: RetiredNow who wrote (67511)	4/11/2005 9:33:17 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) of 77400

Wow. I think you have a Hollywood idea of what programmers do. My programmers work 12 hour days, alot of time on weekends, carry pagers and cellphones so we can reach them at any time of the night the mission critical applications go down, we always seem to be on a death march to hit some executive mandated deadline, and the engineers mostly have M.S. degrees in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering. No, I was remembering back from my own programmer days in '84-'86. It was pretty cushy work, especially when compared to the lower paying jobs such as teaching a class or manning an assembly line. I've done both of those for a bit since then, and would say programming is less demanding than them any day. If your programmers work 12 hours days, on weekends, have to carry pagers and are constantly on a death march to meet deadline, then I hate to say it, but your group is probably terrible inefficient! No reason you should be working in your career for 10+ (much less 3+) years and not been able to overcome the problems that require those draconian measures.

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