Top Reason why I joined IT
I hated sleep.
I had enjoyed my life enough.
I couldn’t live without tension.
I wanted to pay for my sins.
I believed in the principle : karm karo, phal ki demand na karo.
Everything in life has a reason; I wanted to prove it wrong.
I wanted to take revenge on myself.
Read it in my friend’s scrap book on orkut and found it too funny so decided to share 
@fariha
What were your reasons? Do any of these apply?
Comment by waqas — June 30, 2007 @ 2:17 pm
@Waqas
he he…yup…the first and the third one apply now after I have completed my BS. Initially i stepped into this field because of my interest which is still there……what abt u?
Comment by Fariha Akhtar — June 30, 2007 @ 4:31 pm
how about gettting the power to do logical stuff all the time?
Getting to practice philosophy while not just programming which has facets of creationism, meta physics and classification theory to ponder upon like ontologies.
I find that pretty satisfying
IT also gives u the impression that u r above the food chain, even if thats an illusion
Comment by Atif Abdul-Rahman — July 1, 2007 @ 6:32 am
hmmm…work-life balance is what is required, methinks…
Comment by Sidhusaaheb — July 1, 2007 @ 8:55 pm
@Atif
I wanna get into philosophy but many a times it flies over my head and i sit back thinking that perhaps i’m not intelligent enough to understand it
IT gives an impression that u r above the food chain…kaise kaise?
@Sidhusaaheb
Indeed!
Comment by Fariha Akhtar — July 3, 2007 @ 12:56 am
well i still don’t know why i joined IT
:)
Comment by Syed Faraz Mahmood — July 3, 2007 @ 1:08 am
Lolz … I’m definitely the first one and two last ones
so parhakooo, you’re what third
Comment by Asma — July 3, 2007 @ 1:21 am
One does apply
The third … well I can’t stand not having anything to do.
@Atif
Philosophy is interesting, but I don’t see a direct link with IT. None of the pioneers of computer science or IT were noted philosophers …
And how does IT give you the impression of being above the food chain? I thought only politics had that effect
Comment by waqas — July 3, 2007 @ 3:39 pm
lol, orkut is a funny place, u read the most random things
hehe..
i like this piece..its contradictory, interesting
makes u think!
:)
its good to see a unique piece up..something out of the ordinary
Comment by batty — July 3, 2007 @ 6:36 pm
lolzzz!
i cant live without tension either :p my forte
ab tou hypertension bhee hogaye hai so thats proof enough
Comment by mansoor — July 3, 2007 @ 6:39 pm
well philosophy and programming has a lot in common and it requires full fledged books to tlak about it at length, just google it and ull know.
as one instance, consider the concept of creation ex nihilo, which means creation out of nothing, a well established philosophical pov. earlier days in programming was more used to it until runtimes and controlled environments and the super class Object (C’# and Java) emerged which indicate that there can be no creation ex nihilo. this concept alone requires a lot od details to explain, just google it.
Comment by Atif Abdul-Rahman — July 5, 2007 @ 4:48 am
i feel im at the top of the corporate food chain because i hold all the locks i hold all the keys to their most crucial source, information. i can manipulate stuff through code no one really cares to cross examine what its doing, so can u, esp. in Pakistan. try it at any software company, im sure none of them can trace ur hidden piece of code.
Comment by Atif Abdul-Rahman — July 5, 2007 @ 4:51 am
@Atif
Your attempt to connect philosophy with programming doesn’t really get through to me. You could somehow connect them, but show me a point in programming history where philosophy played a major direct role. And I mean where the development was based on philosophy, and not the other way around.
Indeed testing for security, or any testing at all is almost non-existent in Pakistan. Which is a real shame. Though I do agree, it does give a lot of opportunities
Comment by waqas — July 11, 2007 @ 9:37 pm
humans can never be satisfied…..
Comment by hira — August 25, 2007 @ 6:06 pm