• small_crow@lemmy.ca
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      8 months ago

      I remember telling my high school guidance counsellor I was planning on becoming a programmer. She looked at me, head tilted like a confused dog and asked what excited me about Event Programming (as in, planning and scheduling large in-person events).

      That was the first time someone didn’t understand what I did for work, and it was about 5 years before I started doing it.

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      8 months ago

      Yes. And, by the way, “computer” was once the name of a profession, carried out by people.