greatdox

In my prime I earned $150K/year as a programmer analyst writing business software for mostly Microsoft Windows platforms. That was before the Dotcom bubble burst and the market got flooded with younger cheaper labor developers who only studied in hacker school for three months how to become a developer with no college degree and high school dropouts. They work for like $20K/year and write sloppy code with security flaws and poor quality.

I've been programming since I was 12 in 1980 learning BASIC on 8 bit microcomputers, and learning COBOL and FORTRAN on mainframes using punch cards. At first I made mistakes and failed like any other person learning how to be a programmer. I learned from my mistakes and kept getting better. Over my life I learned over 37 different programming languages on countless different platforms. But none of that matters anymore.

Many people I worked with at my age, most of them did suicide because of the stress of working or not being able to find a steady job. Those who stayed in the computer industry became software consultants and got ripped off by broker agencies and in most cases not paid for their work or even being given credit for it, some ended up homeless, others ended up disabled from the stress like me.

This industry can eat you up and spit you out.

I was able to earn money as a 'super debugger', a phrase made by Rear Admiral Grace Hopper when I heard once of her speeches on programming and debugging and how using less code is faster and better, etc. She used to carry some copper wire on her wrist as a bracelet, when they decommissioned some mainframe core memory it was wire wrapped. She would show it to young people like me to teach me that wasting code is wasting memory and resources, and that if you can do the same thing with less code, it runs faster, uses less resources, and less memory.

But nobody seems to want to take her seriously anymore, even if she is a pioneer into computer science, and had invented a lot of the tech we still use today. In her time they claimed it was not possible to have a programming language, they also claimed women could not do computer work, and she proved them wrong on both counts.

Anyway some of my friends who survived, ended up working in fast food and retail and clerk jobs, because nobody wants to hire a person over 30 these days for programming work, and even if they do it is software contracting and they get ripped off.

One of my friends Michael David Crawford who was a Senior Engineer at Apple and Drobo and other places wrote this in his email response:

Dear Friends,

I was until quite recently out of work for three solid years despite my having for well over fifteen solid years received ~35 software engineering employment or consulting inquiries from recruiters - also known as "headhunters" as well as "brokers" - ...

... While at the same time I found it Damn near impossible even to _find_ the kinds of software publishers I hoped to work for, let alone any actual open job opportunites, due the quite common lack of street or postal addresses on corporate websites.

I rsolved to take matters into my own hands by once and for all putting a permanent end not only to my own chronic unemployment but that of a half-million of my colleagues in the engineering professions.

Thompson Coburn, LLP is behind a lot of this.

It is liberal tyranny, not distributed fascism. It is Liberal Democrats who have been indoctrinated into a system that rejects logic, reason, and critical thinking. A system that tells them what to believe and what to do. It has been used in public schools, colleges, and universities, and it is MKUltra level brainwashing.

It brings out the evil nature in human beings and then calls it good. It rejects ethics and morals and replaces them with a liberal ideology. It reject the idea of a God, and worships the Earth instead. It has become a secular religion that worships nature and materialism. If you ever read George Orwell's works of "1984" and "Animal Farm" it is the very things he warned us about.

ThoughtCrime, Newspeak, MiniTrue, MiniLove, and a fake democracy that is no different from a tyranny but called a democracy.

Conservative Republicans are no different than Liberal Democrats, they both do the exact same things. I have rejected them both and become a Pirate Ninja, and formed a Pirate Ninja party.