Some questions for the Pro's

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What do you like/dislike most about your job?

When clients ask for changes from the original specification and having to sort out messy code from other developers. I've not come by a company yet who has a proper development methodology - most tasks are to maintain other people's code, and messy code leaves too many holes for you to break the system.

What is your average day like?Stressfull? Not stressfull?

Usually - especially near deadlines. To work unreasonable hours is not uncommon. I'm telling you, I'll have a fit one day...

Where do you see the profession going in the next 10 years with the rise in outsourcing to other countries,etc..? In other words do you think the job market will be expanding or shrinking?

Open source is a big threat; at the end of the day, you just can't make money programming if nobody is willing to pay for it.

I think there will be more money in providing support services to open source software in 10 years, but I'll continue making money from programming in the meantime :-)