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By: Vera

Vera — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:21:01 +0000

Mike, its like you’ve read my mind completely. Thanks for the great article.

By: matt carroll

matt carroll — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:58:45 +0000

Hey Mike

I’m sure I screamed a couple of times while working with you before you joined the Marines!

I think I too needed a change of venue after a while. The same ol’ same ol’ got repetitive – that was one of the reasons we moved…

Matt

By: Mitch

Mitch — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:41:31 +0000

I know what you’re talking about – I needed a break from programming a few years ago. It took a tour in Iraq with the Army to make me love programming again.

And yes, you really do see things differently after experiences like that.

By: AzMoo

AzMoo — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:11:04 +0000

Actually Dave, you’re entirely correct and I fail at simple math today. I apologize for my error. But the point still stands. People shouldn’t throw around arbitrary numbers as fact.

By: AzMoo

AzMoo — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:08:16 +0000

Yeah, sorry, I used the 2004 population estimates from http://www.census.gov/popest/states/tables/NST-EST2008-01.csv to do the original calculation which was 292892127 / 26000000. Approximately 11.27%. I didn’t adjust when I rounded it up to 300 million for the sake of simplicity.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:01:52 +0000

Wow… the irony in that lately I feel this strong urge to go backpacking throughout Europe.. just leave everything behind for three months and see things I’ve never seen before. Be totally isolated, alone and doing something totally different. It’s my belief I’d come back charged and better than before I would’ve left.

Thank you for this inspiring article.

By: MoffDub

MoffDub — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:16:56 +0000

Nice post, and thanks for serving the country. Part of me isn’t surprised that a liberal would be unhappy in the fortunate and comfortable positions us developers work in.

By: EFlores

EFlores — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:36:20 +0000

This article makes me reconsider joining the military. For the longest time I’ve had the urge to enlist; primarily Army, but after watching/reading ‘Generation Kill’ and reading “One Bullet Away” by Nathaniel Fick, the Marines too. I sometimes get the urge to just live and do something different with my life. But, mounting responsibilities and the fact that I seriously doubt I’m cut out for the military prevents me from doing so.

Thank you Mike, your article provides some food for thought!

By: watson

watson — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:08:38 +0000

“You’ll regret it while you’re in and miss it after you leave”
This sums up all you need to know about the Corps. I joined at *16*, and was a dual MOS 4066/4067 computer programmer while in! So what do you do when you’ve burnt out on programming while *in* the Corps? :)