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How programming plays into your identity

Name: Anonymous 2018-07-22 1:54

How do you define yourself? I used to call myself a ``tech guy'' or ``programmer'' or whatever. I studied it in university. I do it for work. I do tech stuff for fun, or at least I used to. But that was during my naive bugman phase of life.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bug%20man
As time goes on, I am becoming increasingly disillusioned with tech and programming (and, on a more general level, modern life as a whole). I no longer want to consider it part of my identity, even though it's my livelihood.

What about you, /prog/? Do you call yourself a programmer or developer? Do you even like technology? Any other thoughts on this matter?

Name: Soldier of Orange 2018-07-22 4:17

I code, therefore I am. But I am a "generalis homo". Coding is so central to my life, that I run away from computers and their ilk IRL. Have never owned a cell-phone or smartphone. Never take my computer anymore to the coffee shop. Read /prog/ solely out of boredom. Live through each day just to enter a fsscinating dream-world every night. Write code that nobody else can grok. Don't care; don't share. Have been kicked off and banned from more websites than most /proggers/ can imagine. Spend part of each day at the bottom of a lake, clawing through the silt for treasure with a three-prong garden-tool. Scrounge for coins at fast-food drive-thru windows. Ponder the imponderables. Glad to be alive when by all rights should have died ages ago. Attracted to the Ultimate Mysteries -- smallest things; largest things; oldest things; most complex things. They'll never take me alive.

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