[kemofo]

I'm just finishing up a web based ordering and accounting system. Me and one other guy wrote it. It runs a $100,000,000 company, it keeps all the orders and books, day in and day out. It took two years of my life to write, I slept fitfully for most of that time. I doubted myself and my team mate (but he stuck through it and my doubt made me ashamed). Now that the system is up and running I'm extremely proud. But I know that 90% of the programmers I'll meet for the rest of my life won't even believe I did this. Very few people I've met can conceptualize the work effort required to complete a feat like this. This idea is lost on my generation of peers, it's gone and it's not coming back. The "me" generation is fundamentally lacking in this way. I mourn this a little every day b/c I can't relate my achievements to them, they just don't understand. They think I'm the one who needs to change...