I have never felt any shame in doing whatever it was that I HAD to
do to get by, provided that 1. Whatever I did was legal and hurt no one or
nothing else, and 2. Doing so allowed me to continue working toward
whatever it was that held my interest at the time...either thru the mere
enabling via money, or in some more direct relationship! For example, while
I was studying large format B/W Photography, I was able to turn this
avocation into a vocation by doing lab work for others at the same time.
The same is true in Programming. I started knowing practically
nothing about the subject, but had decided it was something I wanted to
learn. My reasons at the time had to do with my wanting to find a way to
create an imaging system I dreamed up in relation to my photography. I had
just gotten divorced so I quit my job as well, moved back to La Conchita
CA., lived cheaply and went at it full time. Within a year and a half I was
earning enough money doing Web Sites and clean-up work for my landlord who
was still making a great living just writing BASIC for businesses down in
L.A.. Then when I came back to Pa., to be closer to my kids, I used my old
customer base from when I was in the insurance brokerage business to
continue, learning what ever it was I needed to as I went along. I don't
think I'd have been able to do so in any other language/system other than
Delphi because the ease of the language, community support and tech help
was what made it all possible for me!
from Robert Meek dba Tangentals Design
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Subject: [SPAM]RE: Any Other Delphi Jobs Lists? - Delphi minority
Yep. The truth is sad. Let's face it. We are minority.
But it doesn't matter. We love Delphi.
I worked for a while as web 'programmer'. This is the lowest point where a
real programmer (real
programmer=compiled, not interpreted) can go.
Meanwhile I worked for companies that paid my without papers especially in
video/audio domain and
hardware/peripherals. That kind of company that doesn't ask in what language
you will write the
program as long as it meets their requirements. Actually it wasn't so bad,
the money where good.
I would like to find a real Delphi job, to add it to my CV but every body
asked Java and C (any
kind of C) or Delphi but only DB (God how I hate that boring stuff).
Anyway being without a fixed job gave my enough time to learn/do what I
liked and to develop my
own pet projects.
Now one of them it transformed in a serious application for genetic
research. In February I will
go back in Romania to get the papers to open my own company.
So, in the end, Delphi is not so bad. It teaches you that you don't have to
be somebody employ.
With a good tool like Delphi you can do any kind of applications even for
Linux of Mac (Lazarus).
Imagine if in the past I would have decided for Java or Flash for example.
Now I will be writing
some stupid little games for cell phone or web sites.
I love Delphi. I will always do. Even if we are in minority.
...and the traveler died, stroked by the beauty of the landscape.
THE MORNING OF THE MAGICIANS
Louis Pawels & Jacques Bergier
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