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Originally Posted by trm0002
Like I said- don't mean to pry, but thanks for your answer(s)- all who did. And Happy Birthday (belated). 
What I was trying to illustrate is what I said earlier; very few people are getting into what has long been considered the "skilled trades". Not to belittle your field in any way; it too is a very necessary, integral part of today's society. Point being that our society is moving from "manual labor" do-ers to thinkers for lack of a better term. Who today goes to college to become a skilled factory worker or a plumber or a pipe-fitter or or or... Even the "trade" schools today are 99% IT. Nothing gets built by IT graduates; well, that might not be fair but you know what I mean. There is an increasing stigma about working in manufacturing; you know having a "dirty" job where you can't wear khakis and a button-down shirt to work. This country was built by BUILDING things not buying them built from somewhere overseas and shipping them in. That's what's happening and that is a major issue that if not corrected, WILL ultimately be our downfall. We were the most industrious nation on the planet and that's what made us the most powerful. Not in the sense of supreme over others but able to take care of ourselves without them.
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Albeit an opinion, but I believe some people, especially the baby-boomer generation, have a false sense of the world we live in. I mean that to be as unoffensive as possible. The Industrial age is reducing it's presence in todays society. We have emerged in the Information age, where a good piece of software can easily sell for more than a McLaren F1 or a moderate sized house. And all that really is is a carefully designed string of 1's and 0's. Technology, information, knowlege, is the key to our nations; our worlds success these days. Things move so fast now, technology is constantly revamped, reinvented, and redefined. It is almost suprising that Industrial giants can exist like they did over the last 100 years (well, apparently they can't). This day in age people that "make" things, as you put it, need to be agile. They need to be adaptive. They need to roll with the punches and jump on new technology, because that's where this planet is heading.
I sincerely apologize if I come across as a bit confrontational or that annoying "recent grad" who thinks he knows everything, I have a bit of a personal vendetta agains some of these views. I was told once by my girlfriends stepfather that I was not contributing to the economic well being of Michigan by writing software. He said if I wasn't manufacturing an actual product, I was not doing my part. I found it ironic, as he is an orthodontist that works 3 days a week.
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Originally Posted by shadowed_Stranger
Mind if I ask what it does? If it's fun or interesting do you need someone to beta?
I also have a basic knowledge of quite a few programming languages if you could use another developer 
I, too am trying to start my own business. Although not in the software industry, but in the repair-the-computers-for-the-people-that-look-at-too-much-porn industry. I did great while still in high school, making enough to buy back my first camaro and pay for two semesters of college in a matter of months. Since then I have gotten almost ZERO work, and so my dreams of a new camaro are on hold until I can get another job to pay for the advertising I plan on doing. |
I have all these crazy plans for where I want to point my business, from web interfaces to mobile apps for WM6 and Android, to thick client apps. My current project is actually aimed towards the professional sector, as it is not an app at all, but a library. In short, it is a collection of .NET controls written in C# to replace or extend the current windows functionality. It has neat things like guages, switches, dials, custom buttons and input boxes. Its something that companies who make custom apps can utilize to give them a great look and feel for their user interfaces. When I get the first version finished I'd be more than happy to send you a demo!