When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. - Hunter S. Thompson

03 May 2005

Alternative career path for programmers

Thanks, Reuters:
(Delmar, NY) Computer programmer Steve Relles has the poop on what to do when your job is outsourced to India.

Relles, one of a rising number of Americans seeking new opportunities as their work shifts to countries with cheaper labor, has spent the past year making his living scooping up dog droppings as the "Delmar Dog Butler."

"My parents paid for me to get a (degree) in math and now I am a pooper scooper," Relles, a 42-year-old married father of two told Reuters. "I can clean four to five yards in a hour if they are close together."

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"It sure beats computer programming because it's flexible, and I get to be outside," he said.

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