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To: Gerald Underwood who wrote (10121)	3/13/1998 4:15:00 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Respond to of 13949

Gerry, the familiar chord for me was this: But, as Weinstein goes on to say, employers, too, become addicted, to the idea of "bottling" the monomania of the young "and using it year-round to run your business." The result is that a programmer may start out as "Captain Ahab going after Moby Dick, and then sooner or later you have to decide between the whale and a wife and kids," Weinstein says. It is when such considerations enter the picture that "the employer can lose interest in you."...Critics of the computer industry's labor practices suggest that they can be traced, in part, to the archetype of the obsessed geek working night and day in the garage, or grabbing a few z's in a sleeping bag on the laboratory floor. Ah, the good old days when I used to stay up a week at a time coding non-stop... now I'm lucky to go a few minutes at work without the phone ringing. And after playing with the kids for a few hours about all I'm good for is some light programming and/or responding to e-mail. Just a matter of time before I get to be TEDennis' age and sleep half the day (gg). - Jeff