But I’m glad I don’t have to make that choice as I’m having too much fun doing what I’m doing.

If I had to do something without a computer I think I would become a mailman (get to walk around all day) and do comics on the side for my artistic outlet. Maybe political cartoons as well.

But I think the USAToday article is wrong, too. About 10 years ago I assumed that someday programming jobs would dry up. After all if you do it well once you never have to do it again, right?

But on the contrary, it seems to me now that every company want’s it’s own version of the same Framestat-Conglomerator even when plenty of versions of it exist already.

And then think of all the stuff that has barely begun. Nano/Bio/Medical & Wireless things in particular.

Sure the prospectors that would’ve become doctors and lawyers in the 80’s have left the field (as well as anyone with a low tolerance for fustration), but I think that it’s improved things for those of us who got into it because they just like to program, don’t you think?

The h1b’s have lowered salary’s which I think is fine, and made it tougher for recent graduates which I think is not fine, but otherwise I think they are good for the country.