Exploring the Possible Reasons Why I May be a Bad Fit for Professional Services

Well, probably the real reason I'm a bad fit for the industry is that I'm fairly altruistic.

When I meet a fool who wants to pay me to become more clever, I tend to tell him to keep his money and to learn more patience.

Edit: I take that back, a more fundamental reason is that professional services are mainly vested in their reputations as a commodity, and while I fully understand how to manage a reputation-oriented operation, I myself am not a reputation-oriented operation hahaha.

"Mediocre!" said the War Boys

The world makes me sad, today. It's not the sick fucks making Vines of drowning people - at least, those people are interesting. It's the massive cadre, whose notion of enlightenment is commercial success. Their mediocrity grates against my sensibilities - as I'm sure, mine would grate against theirs. They are devoid of antipathy, they scream, absent of taste.

Why I Program Computers (2015)

I expect this to change from time to time:

1. Intellectual curiosity / boredom - people bore me, I believe that people are quantifiable, no one believes me, so I think it would be fun to demonstrate a person in a machine (since 2007 or so).
2. Commercial value - I want to know how to manage software engineers (since 2009 or so).

Those are the first things that come to mind, but aside from that I probably did find computational finance to be interesting when I was reading about it in 2006/7. Also, when I was working with a social enterprise in 2007/8 I did think it would expedite many projects we were talking about if we could just build the software on our own, immediately.