Quick, non-technical question

[Phillip McCleod]

3. its kinda lonely work

when you think about it. hours spent in front of a screen unwinding layers of problems, staying in the zone. i know it's a rare rare day when i get to talk about coding to anyone. i work in a computer sales/repair shop during the week and code on weekends and evenings. even at work the other techs are hardware hackers.. user-level as far as software goes other than basic operating system admin.. installation, troubleshooting, maintenance,.. point is they're pretty damn smart and they don't know C from HTML and that's a gaping chasm.

in my town, the local college doesn't offer *any* computer science and neither do the high schools. none. zero. their idea of a computer science course is "Microsoft Excel". fact of the matter is despite the ubiquity of computer code these days, the coders themselves are clustered in a few geographic areas. the rest of us are left kinda hanging out here in userspace.