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>Or do you actually think that the world is a friendly place and owes you the respect you only get by earning? I mean absolutely no offense but them's the facts. You get a chance to show your stuff just like everyone else. Just don't waste your time trying to prove something you don't need to and cannot prove to begin with.

I dont think the world owes me anything other then a chance, which is one the things it doesnt provide.

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>If you allow yourself to feel somehow slighted as a result of your age then you are allowing an irrational emotional thought to rule your life. I tease Mike Helland all the time about his youth and he's finally figured it out and has started teasing me about my age. He has finally come to realize that my teasing is a sign of respect and if you allow yourself to 'feel' slighted you only prove your emotional youth.

slighted?
rule my life?
neither is true.
I dont like the attitude of people, but I also dont care.

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>Your peers are thinking about sex. < BG >
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Well that depends on the cross section of peers you take.
I think youll find they only really think about this when they are out in town having a good time (drunk) and having a perv.
But I dont drink, and I have a girlfriend of 3 years that I live with, so personally I dont waste my thoughts.


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>You're taking this far too seriously. If you're 19 you need to realize that I've been programming as long as you have been alive. <g> That just makes me an old fart, envious at your youth and you a young fart, full of yourself and the potential God has given you. Don't waste it!

Does programming come into this at all?
Ive been doing it for 8 years, and I dont intend to waste it, otherwise I wouldnt of dedicated so much of my youth to it.