Been thinking

[Platypus]

You will probably think I'm talking rubbish, but I think you'd enjoy teaching (so long as it involves people who want to learn).

Funny you should say that, but I've been thinking along those lines myself. But as Zeity said, finding people who want to learn is the issue here. I doubt I could cope with secondary school brats.

[suityou01]

Funny you should say that, but I've been thinking along those lines myself. But as Zeity said, finding people who want to learn is the issue here. I doubt I could cope with secondary school brats.

Night school. Usually adults, who have taken time out of their evening to be there. Good audience usually.

[Board Game Geek]

Set up a "Dungeon".

Once you've got your stock, you can "hire" it out for something like £50 an hour.

I kid you not, not everyone has the space or the money to fully stock a dungeon in their own home, and with kids and nosey neighbours it can get interesting.

I know of one Dungeon in London that charges about that, and they are always fully booked for several hours a day.

All you need to do it leave the participants to "get on with it", and have a few house rules like used smaller equipment is to be deposited in the clean box.

Give it a wipe and you're good to go for the next punters....

[Diver]

Set up a "Dungeon".

Once you've got your stock, you can "hire" it out for something like £50 an hour.

I kid you not, not everyone has the space or the money to fully stock a dungeon in their own home, and with kids and nosey neighbours it can get interesting.

I know of one Dungeon in London that charges about that, and they are always fully booked for several hours a day.

All you need to do it leave the participants to "get on with it", and have a few house rules like used smaller equipment is to be deposited in the clean box.

Give it a wipe and you're good to go for the next punters....

I am shocked

[Board Game Geek]

I am shocked

Only if you don't know how to use a Violet wand properly.

There's money in nookie. Always has been, always will be.

[threaded]

Or will coding become fun again? And not offshored all the flaming time?

I've tried every sector, and Finance is the place with fun coding.

AeroSpace you'd think, 'rocket science' and all that, but it is actually pretty much full of numpties who are so far up themselves and surrounded by like minded types they don't realise how poor they are.

Telcos are always after 10% more features, but they want them 10% cheaper than last year.

Games can be fun on new hardware, but there're a lot of prima-donnas who aren't as good as they think they are, and they get in the way of doing a good job. Also the code quality has very little impact on the final product.

Fruit machines can be a real challenge, but you'll often find someone has already solved whatever problem and holds a patent, so most of the effort is working around patents, which can be a fun intellectual exercise, but not really coding fun.

[suityou01]

I've tried every sector, and Finance is the place with fun coding.

AeroSpace you'd think, 'rocket science' and all that, but it is actually pretty much full of numpties who are so far up themselves and surrounded by like minded types they don't realise how poor they are.

Telcos are always after 10% more features, but they want them 10% cheaper than last year.

Games can be fun on new hardware, but there're a lot of prima-donnas who aren't as good as they think they are, and they get in the way of doing a good job. Also the code quality has very little impact on the final product.

Fruit machines can be a real challenge, but you'll often find someone has already solved whatever problem and holds a patent, so most of the effort is working around patents, which can be a fun intellectual exercise, but not really coding fun.

Finance sector is sh!te I'm afraid. Full of bullys, primadonas and they work you into the ground. Also up their own arses. They are so closed off to the idea of allowing people with no previous experience that they allow the same numpties to continue getting work rather than plumping for talent.

Hate them hate them hate them

HTH

[Zippy]

Finance sector is sh!te I'm afraid. Full of bullys, primadonas and they work you into the ground. Also up their own arses. They are so closed off to the idea of allowing people with no previous experience that they allow the same numpties to continue getting work rather than plumping for talent.

Hate them hate them hate them

HTH

Programming will become fun again. I keep getting disillusioned and then come back to it. I don't mind so much if I have other things to do as well.
You could set up an e-commerce site on the side and maybe SY02 could help out with the orders?
Cheer up mate - 2010 is going to be a good 'un

[norrahe]

Finance sector is sh!te I'm afraid. Full of bullys, primadonas and they work you into the ground. Also up their own arses. They are so closed off to the idea of allowing people with no previous experience that they allow the same numpties to continue getting work rather than plumping for talent.

Hate them hate them hate them

HTH

Note to suity - don't work in Lloyd's of London HTH Small market, incestuous and small minds, if you're willing to put up with that then, fine.

You're out of it so don't worry.

[suityou01]

Programming will become fun again. I keep getting disillusioned and then come back to it. I don't mind so much if I have other things to do as well.
You could set up an e-commerce site on the side and maybe SY02 could help out with the orders?
Cheer up mate - 2010 is going to be a good 'un

That's the sort of thing I was thinking. Although not so much on the side as more of plan b becoming plan a. If I can sell PCs and geek stuff locally to business and consumer then from the contacts I make I could score programming work. Then I spend most of my days monkeying around with the latest kit, writing reviews for the site and dabbling in a little code.