I was watching Office Space last night, the story of my life, and started pondering the infamous million dollar question. The question is ,"What if you had a million dollars, what would you do?" Whatever you answer should end up being your occupation. One of the more funny answers was "two chicks at the same time". I'm more along the lines of Peter Gibbens - nothing. Well, at first. After 10-14 hour days programming since I started working 6 years ago I'm close to the burnout stage myself. I always wondered why there aren't many older programmers. I now know why. The prospect of doing nothing entices me a little. Heck, I'm practically doing nothing right now, but I am "At Work" I'm just not at work. I have alot of hobbies: guitar, violin, piano, composing, writing. I'd keep doing that stuff if I had a million, I just wouldn't program anymore. I've been coding since I was 9, I am now 29. That's 20 years of my life typing the same words over and over "IF" "ELSE". Let's extrapolate the word "if". That is a word that is used in every programming language since the dawn of time. My current project has the word "if" in it 800 times. I've been working since April. That is 200 "if"s a month, 2400 "if"s a year, and 48,000 "if"'s since I've started programming. If I program until I'm 65 that's another 36 years or 86400 "if"'s. Putting the grand total at 134,400 "if"'s written in my lifetime. If I had a million dollars I would become a writer and never use that word again. If you tried cut and pasting the word "if" over and over in a word doc, you'll come up with 1932 "if"'s a page. BTW, if you try it, you'll end up creating a "Magic Eye" that will see little squares in 3 dimensions. I still have a cool job, lots of money, in an office, with the sun shining, no real bosses to hound me, no office politics to contend, no coworkers that bug me. It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I don't care anymore. Heck, not everyone likes their job, I just wish I didn't have to go anymore. Egad, there's even 16 "if"s , no, now 17 in this diatribe. Well, better get back to work.

Thought of the day
"We need to talk."
"About my flair?"
"What do you think about a person that does the bare minumum? You want to express yourself don't you?"
"Yes, this is me expressing myself, I hate this job, I quit!"
-- Office Space