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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment.
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 14:18:50 -0400
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"Georg Bauhaus" <sb463ba@d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> wrote in message
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> Chad R. Meiners <crmeiners@hotmail.com> wrote:
> : While I did make $10 once for programming a neighbor's VCR, I would
hardly
> : call that 'type' of programming a profession ;-)
>
> I a sense though it is, here.

What?!!?  I don't know about how things work in the rest of the world, but
when your parents ask you to drive over and help your neighbor with their
VCR problem, you go over and help them out.  Now it is not my fault if they
wanted to treat me to ice cream and give me $10 as a reward.  I acted in
charity, and they responded with charity.  Such actions are common in the
Midwestern US.  How does that covert my profession from "student" to "VCR
programmer"?