Considering the Modern Technology Career    Software development
is a young field, at least compared with established professions
like law and medicine. The choice to work in software is
likewise a different choice. It is often made in youth and is
more an act of joy than a cold, calculated career choice.
Perhaps you made the choice like I did. My parents’ most common
comment in the summer of 1986 was something along the lines of
"Why don’t you go play outside?" The thing was, I had an 8086
computer with 640K of RAM to program on and an entire summer to
do it. I was one of us. No way was I going outside.  Why
Technology? I enjoyed computers. They made sense. If something
went wrong, it was syntax error. I would correct it, and it
would work. Computers were the same, over and over again, while
humans were inconsistent. Humans said things they didn't mean
and used body language or tone of voice to make their points—and
when I failed to understand their points, they got mad at me.
When it came time for college