Lone Coder Blog - A Lone Coder in a Big Pond

[Ken Burtch]

This month I talk about dealing with depression if you are a programmer.

"In 2005, I went for a job interview at a company in Niagara area which
manufacturers equipment for dentists. The receptionist said I was the
most polite and pleasant candidate they had interviewed. I walked into
the meeting room to talk with the HR person. With too much make-up,
over-styled hair and flirty-but-fashionable clothes, she looked like
someone who wanted to be a regular on "Sex in the City". "Our company,"
she said, "has offices in major American cities." You could almost hear
her add, "And I won't be stuck in this backwater dump for long." She
looked me over--overweight, glasses and balding--and immediately turned
cold. I wasn't one of those handsome TV guys. I was a computer geek
applying for a computer geek job. Interviewing me didn't fit with her
plans for becoming Somebody..."

Read the rest here:

http://www.pegasoft.ca/coder/coder_june_2006.html

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