Ask HN: What would you have been if there were no computers
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lol
we would have crossed paths then as I would be the world's only consulting detective.
we would have crossed paths then as I would be the world's only consulting detective.
The inventor of the computer.
Electrical engineer. Probably something involving radio since I focused on Communications when getting my EE degree. After college I went to work for a company that made industrial computer I/O interfaces and then got into embedded programming instead.
I guess it depends on what you'd consider a "computer", but I'd probably be into radio engineering and electronics, what I was into as a kid, before home computers were around.
Sometimes, I still feel like I want to go back to it.
Sometimes, I still feel like I want to go back to it.
Musician.
Soometimes, while playing guitar, i wish i would not own a computer, because i'm sure my guitarplaying would be so much better... then i snap back to the real world and am happy as fuck that the computer pays my food.
Musician still is my main ambition, web development is just a means to an end for me.
If I didn't have web development, I'm pretty sure I'd be a mechanic, I love working on cars :)
If I didn't have web development, I'm pretty sure I'd be a mechanic, I love working on cars :)
Ordered by probability:
0. Computer Scientist
----- Other variants -----
1. Mechanical Engineer
2. Mathematician
3. Musician
4. Chemist
0. Computer Scientist
----- Other variants -----
1. Mechanical Engineer
2. Mathematician
3. Musician
4. Chemist
Scarily, I have often wondered this and have no idea. I fear I might have become an accountant, and probably a bad one at that.
I was actually going to be an animator before I picked up "Transcending CSS" by Andy Clarke at the uni library.
Just a journalist instead of a journalist with interactive/multimedia/sysadmin skills
A lighting designer for theater. (I nearly was, despite the existence of computers)
An oil on canvas painter...painting landscapes...
A trauma surgeon.
A pianist or a painter. And probably broke.
A mathematician
A ceramicist.
A linguist.
A pirate.
But I imagine I'd be a blood spatter analyst and vigilante serial killer, of course.