Ep 42, Things I Wish I Knew 10 Years Ago: Friends and Family Have No Idea What You Do

Update: 2017-11-30

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Being a programmer means that often people outside of other developers will have no idea what you do. Trying to explain your career to them will often lead to glazed over expressions. In this episode, I talk about some of the more humorous aspects of this, as well as some of the more serious.

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Ep 42, Things I Wish I Knew 10 Years Ago: Friends and Family Have No Idea What You Do

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Ep 42, Things I Wish I Knew 10 Years Ago: Friends and Family Have No Idea What You Do

David R Tisdale II

Ep 42, Things I Wish I Knew 10 Years Ago: Friends and Family Have No Idea What You Do