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Comment by sethammons

4 days ago

> ...my family kept pressuring me to attain real success, girls, money and car and i became a programmer.

As a child of the 80s and 90s, "getting girls as a programmer" made me snort. Nerds do seem to have it a bit better now; the money/financial security of software development helps. But as a whole, we developers are still less socially capable than our sales/hr/marketing counterparts