- What do you do for a living?
Write code. - What do you like most about your job?
Solving problems. - What do you like least about your job?
Meetings that keep me
from solving problems. - When you have a bad day at work it’s usually because _____…
Some stupid bug is jamming me up and I just can’t get my head around it.
When I leave for the day I am all pissed off, and then the next day I walk
in and figure it out in like 5 minutes… - What other career(s) are you interested in?
Filmmaking
Meetings can be fun if you treat them like problems, such as “how can I get Richard to say the word balloon?”
We also play games in meetings to stay entertained….most popular is keeping track the # of times our boss says “out of the box,” “at the end of the day” and a few other clichés.
At my RIT graduation one of the professors handed out “buzzword bingo” cards. They were laid out like regular bingo cards but instead of numbers there were various buzzwords… It was amazing how many of them were delivered by the keynote speaker… I can’t remember if anyone had the balls to jump up and shout BINGO though…
we played buzzword bingo in SE lecture
I’ve been known to play it at work.