February 03, 2008

A thought about experience

I have been married to a computer programmer for over 6 years. Much of that time he has worked in the home in which I also live. I also have 4 years of experience working in the computer field, in a slightly different capacity. I didn't program, but I worked with programmers. I didn't write code, but I wrote about code. I gave programmers lots and lots of feedback and advice about their code. And I also lived the day-to-day life of a programmer, in the same house as a programmer. I know firsthand how stressful programming is. I have over 6 years of experience living with someone working in an upper-echelon corporate environment. My opponent worked for 8 years in what can best be described as a middle-echelon corporation. It was kind of like that upper-echelon corporation, but it was smaller and therefore less important. He was actually a programmer who wrote code, unlike me, but he's only worked for the upper-echelon corporation for 2 years. Clearly my experience vastly outweighs his.

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Posted by Shelby at February 3, 2008 08:07 PM
Comments

Is this a political "take off?" LOL!! Who is the most experienced candidate???

Posted by: Katrina Rosiak at February 4, 2008 05:55 PM

daaaaaaaaaamn, i had to read that like three times to get it :) sneaky shelby.

Posted by: Raz at February 4, 2008 06:19 PM

daaaaaaaaaamn, i had to read that like three times to get it :) sneaky shelby.

Posted by: Raz at February 4, 2008 06:19 PM

Thank you, thank you, thank you. She has been getting on my last nerve with this argument lately and it's just not true to boot. Not to mention that she sounds like a broken record, much like our current president.

Posted by: Staz at February 5, 2008 08:39 AM

Wish I had the talent to write such posts. I was wondering, do you had any more blogs?

Posted by: navtej kohli at February 5, 2008 07:18 PM

This is brilliant. I'm totally linking!

Posted by: Anita at February 10, 2008 09:36 PM
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