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A Programmer’s Empowering Daydream

By J. Timothy King on July 28, 2009

This morning, at my daughter’s sleep study, as we were waking up, I had a profoundly encouraging and empowering daydream. It wasn’t an intentional visualization, something I wanted to see come about, but purely a spontaneous daydream, of the sort that encroaches upon your consciousness in those fuzzy moments just after you awake. Last night, […]

Posted in Inspiration, Job-seeking, Software Development, Stories, True Stories | Tagged career, dreams, interviewing, programming, psychology | 3 Responses

The beautiful Jessia Hime in a particularly down moment

Hope through Feelings of Hopelessness

By J. Timothy King on July 27, 2009

I’ve been updating my software-development résumé, trying some different things in hopes of finding a reasonably productive SD gig. Along the way, I think I may rub a few people wrong, but I think it’s for the best. Because it’s the only way I know to ultimately accomplish my goals. There’s something about the truly […]

Posted in Books, Entrepreneurship, Inspiration, Love through the Eyes of an Idiot, Software Development | Tagged career, depression, dreams, hope, love, programming | 3 Responses

10 Things I Hate About Software Development

By J. Timothy King on July 21, 2009

This blog post is intended to sabotage any chance that I’ll get a “normal” software-engineering job, because I don’t think I could ever go back to a “normal” job.

Posted in Job-seeking, Software Development | Tagged career, interviewing, programming | 39 Responses

Why I No Longer Belong in a Dilbert Cube

By J. Timothy King on July 20, 2009

The biggest block of time in my software-development career I spent working in an extraordinary job, a very special place to work, with a very special group of people, for 14 years. Throughout the dot-com boom, I stayed there, ignoring the promises of exciting work and increased salary. But before I worked there, I tried […]

Posted in Leaving Normal, Software Development, Stories, True Stories | Tagged career, Damon/IEC, EFG, Kurzweil Music Systems, programming | 3 Responses

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