I don’t have to prove anything to anybody, or impress anybody, or live up to some nebulous outside standard. A lot of people pay a lot of lip service to the idea of self-fulfillment and finding happiness within oneself, but they don’t actually put it into practice. Probably because it’s not as easy as it sounds. There’s always pressure and negative energy coming from other places. Yet, I am determined to continue with this as my mantra.
Basically the reason why I’m rambling like this is because somebody made a comment at work this morning that implied that writing HTML is “beneath” a “real developer,” which also implied that we here in Web Services (or perhaps just me) are not “real” developers. Hmph. As if a person is totally defined by what they do in the office between the hours of 9 to 5. Perhaps I’m too sensitive, but the comment hurt my feelings. -And if I am in fact too sensitive, then again, that’s part of who I am and anyone who doesn’t like it can kiss my ass! :-P
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Was it a “real developer” that made the comment? Has that person written any web code the past 3-4 years? Major web publishing is *not* that simple anymore.
Forgive me, M@ber, but you need some advice from Bridget Jones’s friends Shazzar:
“Fuck ‘em. Fuck the lot of ‘em. Tell them they can stick their fucking Leavis up their fucking asses.”
“Leavis” in this case is this guy and his definition of developers.
Niki, you sexist pig! These assumptions you make — scandalous! It was a girl who made the comment, not a guy!
But the advice from Shazzar is good regardless. :-)
And she isn’t a developer at all — she’s a designer. Which makes the whole thing all the more puzzling.
She’s just envious coz the dentist didn’t hit on her.
Pardon my transgression. But the advice still stands.
Elitist bullshit. Fuck ‘em. Your blog and the content therein is an excellent representation of what you do outside work and I’m sure there is other stuff I don’t know about. Besides, I hate this bullshit heirarchy that some developers come up with to put others down. Whatever, you probably have more of a life than they do.
To quote Tyler Durden: You are not your job.
However, I am my fucking khakis. Odd.
Argh! You already made a khakis-related comment! You beat me to it! :-)
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