Trader Job

[The Lone Gunman]

I've never understood people who program without enjoying it. It has to be one of the most arduous, tortuous, and frustrating occupations short of doing real things like coalmining, unblocking sewers, or being a paramedic.

I love it myself, yet it still drives me to distraction on a daily basis. Voluntarily dealing, on a constant basis, with such a degree of frustration and intellectual challenge without actually enjoying it sounds like madness.

Still, when you get it working, and the code is beautiful...

WHS.
70% is boring. Just writing the basic algorithm that it all hangs on in just plain old slog.
The other 30% is frustration and torture. Headscratching figuring it out.
But it is the problem solving that I love and finding an elegant solution is what drives me.
When it all works.............. well............... if you never experienced it I cant describe it.
I do get a huge rush when I see certain aircraft fly by and know there is a piece of me in there.

[SantaClaus]

I have an interview for a role as a Trader this week. I fired off a CV ages ago and it's come back with a positive response.

Could be a bad time to get into it but it's gotta be worth a go - better than programming?

Take the job! The IT industry is dead and full of dull maintenance work.
Just hope youre not trading CDOs!

[AlfredJPruffock]

Take the job! The IT industry is dead and full of dull maintenance work.
Just hope youre not trading CDOs!

Apparently they're crying out for recruits in the Lion-Taming Sector.

[HairyArsedBloke]

A lot of people will be turning to trading in the years to come to make a living.

Up and down the country you will hear the cry "3 for a fiver" or the like.

[BrilloPad]

I've never understood people who program without enjoying it. It has to be one of the most arduous, tortuous, and frustrating occupations short of doing real things like coalmining, unblocking sewers, or being a paramedic.

I love it myself, yet it still drives me to distraction on a daily basis. Voluntarily dealing, on a constant basis, with such a degree of frustration and intellectual challenge without actually enjoying it sounds like madness.

Still, when you get it working, and the code is beautiful...

I enjoy the end result and what the program can do for the users.

I have never understood those who see technology as an entity in itself. I see it as a means to an end.