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What do you think about a software engineer? Most probably you might be thinking that a software engineer is highly paid person and living a rich and enjoying life. But actually the truth is very different form that. I’m confident on saying that as I’m a software engineer myself. You might not believe what I explain in the following paragraphs of this post. But if you ask it from a software engineer, he or she will definitely give the same answer.

It is true that a software engineer is a highly paid person compared to other professionals in the same level in any country. But apart from the money he or she earns, it is a very small amount of time that a software engineer has for fun, be with loved ones, go for a vacation etc. A software engineer is like a robot who is working at least 10 to 12 hours per day. He or she doesn’t even have a time to have a good meal. Most often they are working with a huge mental pressure and stress. Software engineers are the best handlers of mental pressure and stress. They are very good with technical stuff but most of them are poor in general life stuff (I’m good with both by the way :-)). I just want to prove that from the letter added below.

This letter was published in the blog http://rakesh.in/2006/11/20/love-of-a-software-engineer/ . The blog author says that this is a true love letter written by one of his friend. I believe that this is a true love letter. So have a look at it and see how it proves my idea mentioned above.

Dearest $love,

I woke up in the morning to find every bit in my body waiting to be with you. It has been a very long wait for today. Although my heart has only your image, my brain has split itself into many threads each executing only your command.

I remember the first day we met. Our hearts reached consensus without any external memory. I was a dangling pointer containing your address but no ownership over you. As I tried to deference the location, I crashed. There were not one but many clients trying to connect to you. But this did not deter me. I relentlessly tried to reach you. My messages to you were sent through different routers but they were all prevented from reaching you. All my SYN packets were dropped. When finally I decided to close my connection, I received your ACK. The very thought of being preempted made my heart bloom like the heat generated by a million processors all in busy-wait. When you saw me you realized that I was not a spurious host. I was a trusted source as I was linearly separable from the rest.

But when our class separation decreased I saw more distinct features. However, I could neither decode your enciphered smile nor track your mosaiced lips. Your gaze brought me to your frontal view nullifying my external parameters. I stared at you as thousands of thoughts enqued in my memory waiting to be dequeued. No amount of data mining could have extracted the three simple words that you said to me then. Within no time, all my thoughts automatically dequeued. Those evergreen images registered in my mind instantly even though infinite amount of images would have been impossible to reconstruct the scene. It is on this day last year that we first met. My memory of the day has never got corrupted and when I think about you I also think about the first time that I met you. Compile me into you and I promise to link with you. I will load both your sorrows and happinessequally all my life.

Always yours,
J.Lo

Actually a software engineer’s personal life is in a very dangerous situation if his loved ones can’t understand his or her mind set, his duties and responsibilities. You might be a wife, husband or a child of a software engineer. If so please try to understand the situation that software engineer lives with. A software engineer is always working hard to deliver a software release on time. Almost about 100% of them do that on time. To make this a success he or she will need to work hard by using the time planned to be with the loved ones or to enjoy. Most of the software engineers do this to make their loved ones happier. This is a must that anyone should understand who has a software engineer in his or her family.