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I have been a professional programmer for 32 years. When I stop calling myself a programmer I will call myself dead (if I could).

My "career" aspiration in school was to be a bearded, suspenders wearing unix admin/hacker.

I don't ever want to get non-technical. I've been a project manager, and found the work excruciatingly boring.

I've been a freelancer, and found the work mind numbingly boring.

I much prefer working for a company where I can be neck deep in designing and building challenging products.