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This happened when I finished highschool.

I was looking for a programming related career at university, and I had two options: Computer systems engineering or Software engineering. I commented this to my mom.

Me: Mom, this university offers Software engineering. The thing is that the campus is 1 hour from the city and it’s a new career, so I don’t know if it’s a good idea or not.
Mom: Why Software engineering? Don’t you want to be a developer?
Me: Yes, that’s why I was thinking of taking Software engineering
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Mom: Is not “Software” what is inside the computer? (Inside the chasis on desktop computers)

I started laughing so hard 😂 and, of course, I ran away

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  • 5
    @M1sf3t He's right; $60-150k/year isn't much of a living.
  • 3
    @Root Was that sarcasm?
  • 2
    My mom doesn’t understand programming but supports me and thinks what I show her occasionally is cool.

    My dad just chooses to not listen whenever I describe what we do and always just settles with it being a hardware/IT job.
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