>After an absence of about two years, I am back to programming at the Bata shoe factory.
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>In the meantime, I had been doing some other work, mainly, teaching computer networks at the Cisco Networking Academy; but personally, I prefer programming.

Congratulations! I was in the similar situation and I really enjoy programming. Though I wish I would use more different languages here at work. I'm a little bit lazy to learn new staff on my own, but if the necessity arises, I can learn a lot in the short period of time...