Choose Programming. Choose a corporate job. Choose lame users. Choose a big monitor, fast CPU, your own disk farm, bandwidth to swamp, CD burner and five different MP3 players. Choose pasty skin, high blood pressure, and serious grooming issues. Choose a home you rarely visit. Choose friends you never see face to face. Choose t-shirts with camel jokes. Choose cubicles with fabric walls that fade into the distance at midnight. Choose writing your own CGI handler and wondering how your site got hacked on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting at your desk writing mind-numbing, spirit-crushing status reports, pouring coffee down your throat. Choose rotting away debugging someone else's code until you realize that you can replace your co-workers with small shell scripts.

Choose a future. Choose contracting.

Okay, so I had a different reaction to the title of tilly's recent meditation than most :)

Update: Thanks, Guildenstern. One should search the archives even when trying to be humorous :)

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