What is it like to be a web programmer?



Here’s what I answered a familiar to this question:

“Imagine that you washed the floor and the ceiling became blue because of it. I washed again, the ceiling changed color to red. Things don’t seem to be related, but it’s exactly how it happens. And here you are trying to use different detergents and sweaters, pick up so that the color did not change, well, or at least changed but not very much. A friend advises to use a vacuum cleaner, she says she has been using it for a long time and she likes it. You struggle for 2 days trying to connect the vacuum cleaner to the network, a day trying to turn it on, but when you turn on all the windows broke and you curse your friend with the vacuum cleaner and swear never to use it again. After the method of scientific tick, you understand that if you use a 1.4 meter long swab without a detergent, the ceiling does not change the color. And here you successfully wash the floor in your home for a month, but then you move to a new apartment, do everything exactly the same but the ceiling changes color again. And you’re trying to get the right scarf...”