Part 2. My attitude about programming as job (I welcome your feedback) At the age of 13 I wrote my first program. The code I created there was a picture of a black screen. I had so much enthusiasm, made something out of nothing. It was a snowball; it rolled down the mountainside and grew. I wrote a line of code, just words, but alive picture on the screen. I went to Physics and Mathematics Lyceum. Then I studied at the University at the department of computering. Last year I started to look for a job. I had a fear of not finding it. But in my town there are over 40 IT companies, and a lot of chances to find a job. I lived in Dnepropetrovsk. Of course, all the experience is required for a position as a programmer. But you can take courses or internships in an IT company. On completion the course, you have a better chance to get to work. The second requirement is knowledge of English. Most companies do not take workers without excellent English language skills. Such a requirement is necessary. Programmers often need to communicate with a customer about the project. You need to read the requirements for the project, write, and read the documentation. Customers are usually Americans, Dutch and other English-speaking ones. There are always the English language courses in IT companies. Usually they are free to employees. If you love programming, then this is the absolute best job you can have. There are large and even huge applications that have been written for years. In order to do it one needs a work of a coordinated team of programmers and testers. One programmer cannot physically meet all the complexity of large programs. If the application has existed for a long time, the work of programmers is to correct bugs, to write new modules, to rewrite the functional in order to meet a new customer’s requirements. Programming is of great interest to me. It does not matter what language you know, the main thing is to know approaches and design patterns. Of course, it is better to learn the ropes of a single industry. It is always possible to change the language. For example, I have recently started learning Objective-C, development under iOS. To my mind, it is an interesting and unusual language. It is actual now because a novice developer for iOS can get a good job having no work experience and be paid a good salary. Everything is in our hands. The more we learn, the more we discover and develop. In addition, we can stand greater chances of success in the IT sector.