Morton's fork();

Suppose you were offered an ultimatum by the powers that be, /prog/.

1) For the rest of your life you will work in the bowels of ENTERPRISE. You will never be allowed to work on anything other than middleware for connecting ESBs, interfaces to define ReportGeneratorFactoryBuilders, and javadoc for Business Logic metamodels. You will be expressly forbidden by contract from writing any software (e.g. in your spare time) and not transferring the copyright to the company, likewise from contributing any code to unapproved projects (there are no approved projects). You will be moderately compensated, but never as much as the middle manager above you. Your coworkers will be drab, uninterested, and uninspired.

2) For the rest of your life you will drift from startup to startup, never escaping Silicon Valley. You will work exclusively in Ruby, PHP, and Javascript, plus whatever language the Rock Star read about on HN last weekend. You will survive only by your (and your 20-something Psych major/CS minor boss's) skill at pitching web-scale, html5-embeddable rhythonscript++ mobile ad frameworks. If you are very lucky, you may get a chance to work on a mobile Bejeweled clone. You will be encouraged to contribute to any non-company projects you choose... as long as you can commit to the 80-100 hr work weeks that are needed to prove to the VCs that the team is dedicated. You will be fabulously wealthy, if you believe the founder's valuation of the company, but you will occasionally have to live on Ramen for and water for a week or so while you wait to learn if the Angel investor came through. Your coworkers will be either in college or fresh out of it, bouncing with enthusiasm, and completely clueless/disdainful of anything but the latest fad.

Well?

I've escaped your stupid fork. Enjoy your enterprise, mental midget.

Work on food or restaurants. Live the rest of your life submitting code in any O.S.L. w/ pay per signed download. Make flattr.com accounts, and sell ``official´´ gear & swag. These are just asking to be abused:
http://www.sandisk.com/products/usb/drives/cruzer-fit/

I could not do 1. I could do 2, but would prefer to work a 8hr a day minimum wage job for my income.

The former sounds like eating a bucket of horse shit, the latter is more like eating a dog turd. If for some reason I'm forced at gunpoint to pick one, I'd go for the Javashit job. At least I can pretend it's a Scheme for fags.

3) Acquire welfare checks, program whatever I want for the rest of my life.

First sounds better. Second option would make me go postal.

>>7
They're pretty much the same thing. It's a bunch of old incompetent faggots using shit programming languages against a bunch of young incompetent faggots using shit programming languages.

>>8
The old incompetent [slur] using shit programming languages at least have the excuse of decreased neural plasticity.

>>9
I see, you were too dumb even for reddit and the rationalwiki retards so you come here and try to fit in by saying stupid shit like that.

decreased neural plasticity

SO SMURT

>>10-11
le dumb sister-raping redneck face
le anti-intellectualism pride face

I am so confused now. Did someone invite a demented person to this thread from reddit or something?

What does this have to do with finding a work place.

>>13
fuck you honky lips

>>14 so, yeah? You are confirming you came from reddit, and came to publish here about your taste in things, and not provide one single argument, source, or code?

Meh, whatever. If you want spam, do it in the correct thread:
https://bbs.progrider.org/lounge/

>>15
Fuck off, whitey. My fight is with >>10-11. If you stay quiet I promise you a quick and painless death when the revolution comes.

>>16
Hang this uppity nigger.

>>12,14,16
Banned. Go to /lounge/ for this or keep it in one thread.

>>18
Thank you so much, Admin-sama.

Could you delete the shitposts as well?

>>19
I'll leave them here so that people get an idea of what stuff needs to go to /lounge/. Preferably what kind of stuff they should refrain from posting in general.

>>20
Okay then.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/10/14/131014fa_fact_heller?currentPage=all