Drug Dealers and Software Engineers - A Comparison

Drug Dealers and Software Engineers - A Comparison
Drug Dealers	Software Engineers
"The first one is free"	"Download a free trial version"
Have important South-Asia connections (to help move the stuff)	Have important South-Asia connections (to help debug the code)
Strange jargon: "Stick", "Rock", "Dime bag", "E"	Strange jargon: "TCP/IP", "XML", "Java", "SQL"
Realize that there's a ton of cash in the 14- to 25-year-old market	Realize that there's a ton of cash in the 14- to 25-year-old market
Job is assisted by industry's producing newer, more potent mixes	Job is assisted by industry's producing newer, faster machines
Often seen in the company of pimps and hustlers	Often seen in the company of marketing people and venture capitalists
Their products cause unhealthy addictions.	DOOM. Quake. SimCity. Duke Nukem 3D.; Enough said.
Do your job well and you can sleep with sexy movie stars who depend on you	Damn! Damn! DAMN!