Who am I?

I am fed up with the IT business. Each time you change jobs, which is every two years or less, you have to requalify yourself with a technical interview. "But G, you have been programming eleven years, you should be able to pass that tech interview with flying colors." That is what one would think anyway. I have been fishing around in the Atlanta IT market for a few months now, and have had to take the dreaded tech phone interview. Phone interviews are bullshit anyway. It is so easy to say no, when you can't see the person or be effected by his or her humanity. I could say no to the Pope if he called me promising everlasting life. I could turn down a bj from Carmen Electra. I could deny a cripple kid selling raffle tickets for his next operation. Last week I went through a particularly embarassing tech ( as we call em in the biz ), with IBM. I answered a correct question here and there but soon fell into a big streak of wrong that I could not shake. I ended up feeling defensive and desperatly trying to convery my worthiness to the guy on the other end of the phone. I even began doubting that I had ever programmed. Maybe it was all a dream. Maybe I am still a landscaper. But wait maybe I was just a laborer who was dreaming that he was a landscaper. It pisses me off to no end, trying to pass the tech. Eleven years of programming must be worth something. Just the fact that I held the title of developer and was paid and was never fired should mean something. But hell no, someone wants to grill me on linked lists, the proponents of object oriented programming, and database theory. And that is another thing, why in the fuck do developers have to know about datbases but database people don't have to know about programming! Anyway, the whole process makes me want to puke, and it just seems to be getting worse, the older I get. The competition is cut throat. I have to compete with uber geeks from tech who stay up all night playing World of Warcraft and have photographic memories. Most of these freaking geeks don't even study, they are just quick to understand. I try not to confuse what I do for money with what I do for a living, but it is a hard mother fucking thing to do. I am a good programmer. I really am. You belive me don't you?