Software Developers Social Status

[Cableguy]

Hi guys and gals...

Whenever the job title "Software Engineer" or "Software Developer" comes into a conversation, most trend to picture a no-social-skills-geek kind of person...

So let's hear from you guys...

I'll start.

Male, 44 YO, Hobbyist, Divorced, in a stable relationship

 

[lemonisdead]

Female, 48 yo, pro, divorced, in a somehow stable relationship.
Somehow because the man I love is working at about 1000 km so we meet on holidays or weekends

 

[Lahksman]

Male, 35yo, hobbyist, in a stable relationship.
Luckely I only sleep 4-5 hours and my girlfriends needs her 8 hours, so I do most of my work at night when it's all quiet in house

 

[klaus]

Male, 72 years old, hobbyist, maried for 48 years.
One daughter, two grand children.

 

[JordiCP]

Male, 48yo, pro+hobbyist, divorced. In a stable (at least today, let's see tomorrow ) relationship.

 

[EnriqueGonzalez]

Male 29 Married, stable. Pro + Hob

 

[ilan]

Male, 36 years old, hobbyist, married for 11 years + 4 kids. Everything is stable except of my bank account.

 

[An Schi]

Male, 33yo, hobbyist, stable relationship for 10 years with two kids (no more planned )

 

[MikeH]

Male, 54 yo, hobby & pro, married miserably 34 years, 3 kids, 2 grandkids, no life.

 

[alwaysbusy]

Male, 43 yo, pro + programming almost all other waking hours, sleep +/- 5 hours, happy single

So I kind of fit the preconceived profile

 

[Emme Developer]

Male, 20 years old (21yo next 21° november ), pro & hobbyst & other (i develop also when i sleep, but don't ask me how i can if you don't want to give me 1000000+ dollars), in a stable relationship

 

[eurojam]

Male, 55 years old, married, professional & hobbyst, working only 4 days a week, rest is family, mountains, cooking, reading, travelling...better to work less!!

 

[Misterbates]

Male, 53 years old, married for 25 years, kids of 22 and 17, hobbyist (alongside running as my other main hobby).
I've always been known as a "nerd" or "geek" with a leaning towards techie stuff ;-)

 

[Erel]

Married, 38 years old with three girls.

Big like to all posts above me and all that will come after

 

[moster67]

Male, 50 years old, married for 25 years with one son of 21, working in the IP (Industrial Property) field, hobbyist, Swedish but living in Italy....

 

[ilan]

I think you can clearly say that programming belongs to the male sex

(Until this post)
14 male
1 female

 

[inakigarm]

Mmm .. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...omen-in-tech-the-truth-behind-the-google-memo

 

[udg]

I think you can clearly say that programming belongs to the male sex

Back in the '80s when I had my electronic engineering classes we were about 400 students (first year, then a lot less..) of which only 10 were women.
About 20 years later ladies' number increased a lot and, if I can say it, many were really pretty girls.
Nowadays I often meet very competent tech women but it is still true that men are a strong majority.

 

[Lahksman]

In the company where I work the 2 programmers with the highest seniority are actually females.

 

[ilan]

In the company where I work the 2 programmers with the highest seniority are actually females.

there is no doubt that females can do the job it just looks like females prefer other professions then programming.