Programmers are DJs
I was a kid when I’ve got my first computer. I loved working with BASIC, later Pascal, and even C (if writing small programs can be called work.)
I did have a few games too on the 40 MB drive, but my dad and my neighbors were mostly playing them — not me. My personal passion was to create miscellaneous small executables (or “interpretables”) myself, and I couldn’t wait to show them to other people. Once I wrote a program for my dad to help him with keeping track of bills for the building block we lived.
Usually people said “wow”, maybe they even used my “software” a bit, but sure, then they always went back to their beloved games. But I was never upset. Even that they ran other authors’ applications more. I think this was because I always felt part of that very same group: I was a developer too!
And I could truly empathize with all other programmers — being a software creator was (and still is) the best feeling ever for me, overriding anything else!
Anyway, being a programmer — therefore a geek — also meant I wasn’t very popular at parties. But moreover, unlike many of my colleagues (some even less popular), I couldn’t have fun when a DJ played some music at such an event. Don’t get me wrong, the music itself was probably good (I always liked a lot of genres), I just couldn’t consume it properly. When I was around other consumers…
