A Common trend? 2

[nexcar]

I was an IT manager for 5+ yrs and now I've moved to another company working as a software engineer. Something I've noticed is that my co-workers don't have personal computers. Out of 8 of them, myself and one other guy are the only people with PCs. I can't imagine working in this field and not having a PC. Its like a mechanic not having a set of tools at home! My former co-workers have told me that my replacement says he doesn't have a PC at home either! I run my own 3-PC network at home and couldn't see keeping up to date without them. How do these people keep up with growing technology or programming trends? Is this common in your workplace too or have I just stepped into the Twilight Zone?

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[gurner]

I have a high spec Dell laptop that i work with all day in my field of Database consultancy and a Sony Viao at home, i bought the Sony 6 months ago because the intensive Graphics and Sound apps (Animations, 3D and 2D, Music composing, e.t.c. i'm a designer by trade, but work in DB consultancy, doing onsite rollouts) i liked to mess around with in my spare time were killing the Dell.

However as much as the Sony machine can cope with anything i throw at it (not literally) it has only taken a very short amount of time to lose interest in even turning it on.

And i'm not married, attached or even have any kids. i'd rather go out in an evening.

 

[Stella740pl]

lespaul,
I will come home tonight and let my husband know how special he is (in fact I always do), because he is not intersted in football or gaming, so I don't have to, either.
Stella

 

[frgood]

I've always been addicted to programming. I started writing games 30 years ago. That was fun and challenging. I avoided doing it professionally until about 15 years ago when I had to make rent. The business world has turned out to be just as boring as I feared.
When I worked on Star Trek on a PDP-8. It was fun trying to fit a 10 x 10 grid in memory. I spent much of my summers trying to get a 10 x 10 x 10 grid crammed into 2K. Never did work. You just don't get to many calls for a 5 dimensional array in business applications (once in an insurance report).
Work is work. It removing much of my enthusiasm for computers as I see them being put to the wrong use in schools and business. One of my favorites is I run my consulting business off of a paper/pencil spreadsheet. How many time have you seen someone try to design a database or a data entry form in Excel?