Today, after talking with my wife about a particularly “interesting” day, she said:

So sometimes my coworkers ask what it’s like to be a computer programmer. After watching you work, listening to you on conferences, and hearing you talk about it, computer programming seems to me like…

On your projects, it seems that sometimes you have someone yelling at you: “Get it done as fast as possible, and put it in a blue package!”. Someone else is telling you to take your time, get it done right, and it’ll get done. And you have a third person telling you: “I want fetachini!!”

So you get it done, and your client says: “You should have done it faster! And it should have been in a pink package!”. Then the third guy wonders where his sauce is…

It seems like every day I’m finding this beautiful woman more and more insightful.