Re: Hello Acme

On 06.09.2023 20.14, SpudTater wrote:
> On 06/09/2023 09:31, BeH wrote:
>> On 05.09.2023 09.53, SpudTater wrote:
>>> On 05/09/2023 08:20, BeH wrote:
>>>> On 04.09.2023 21.44, SpudTater wrote:
>>>>> Hi all, it's certainly been a while.
>>>>
>>>> Well hello there Mr. Tater. How is life...?
>>>
>>> Haha, well, got an update for you right there, as it's no longer Mr.
>>> Tater, but Mx. Tattie. And very much happier for it. Still Acme's very
>>> own potato, though!
>>
>> All righty then... So I use 'they' when I talk about you behind your
>> back now? Not that I'll ever do that... talking behind someone's back, I
>> mean.
> 
> You got it! I's a they.  8^)
> 
>>> I stuck around in Edinburgh after university, have a wife, a programming
>>> job, and two cats. The years have kinda flown by tbh. After leaving
>>> Usenet behind, have pinged from LiveJournal to Dreamwidth to Facebook to
>>> Reddit to Mastodon. Maybe I should have stuck right here!  8^D
>>
>> You would have been pretty much on your own here most of the time. I
>> never had a facebook account and I feel utterly vindicated and rather
>> smug about it now.
>>
>> So two cats? Merlyne has a cat. I have no cats. Also no wife. Or job...
>> I spend a couple of years as self-employed consultant after
>> rage-quitting and then retired and moved to the countryside.
>>
>> Can I ask what kind of work you do?
> 
> I'm just a common-or-garden Java programmer, nothing too exciting. 
> Getting into front-end stuff more now, though.
Careful with that. You may have to interact co-operatively with actual
end-users... (Mostly kidding - talking with real people can be
enlightening. The perspective and requirement of people who use vs.
people who decide/specify is at times very different]

> Rage-quitting and going self-employed is always a potential.
As long as you have a marketable skill, and can sell sell sell...
Not one of my strong points - I mostly relied on the kindness of former
colleagues.

-- 
BeH

" We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to
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