Are there many JW programmers around you?

[Hotteok]

As for me, I've heard of such ones.. but never actually met them.

It's such a big field that requires lots of studies and research so it's hard even for the non-JWs to keep up with the recent knowledge.

I think when compared to other occupations, programmers are quite rare among JWs. 

 

[Percy]

1 hour ago, Hotteok said:

I think when compared to other occupations, programmers are quite rare among JWs.

A friend of mine is now retired from programming and he used the very difficult machine code in addition to higher level languages associated with DB work. He was a rare one for sure.

[Osprey]

Well, I am a programmer and know few others too, although its true that not a lot.

[jwhess]

40 years ago I programmed in Basic (and Visual Basic later). I liked the "batch-file" programming in DOS, before Windows.  I quit when the C-language became popular.  My fleshly brother is a Fortran programmer (retied from NASA).

[Qapla]

One brother I know is/was a programmer. He programed in C# and C++. He did this for many years while he and his wife pioneered. He is no longer active as a programmer for a secular company because he now serves as a CO.

 

Another brother I know programs HTML (webpages). Last I talked with him he was one of the Overseers for jw.org at Bethel.

 

 

[Brother_Bliss]

Are there "many"? I wouldn't know. I simply don't have knowledge of what everyone does for a living.

 

Do I know some JW programmers? Yes. I know several that work in IT or in web design.

[Brother_Bliss]

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Moved to General Discussion since this really has nothing to do with Our Meetings, Ministry, or Life as a Christian.

[Michał]

One of our former COs used to be a PHP developer. Despite putting Kingdom interest first and seeing Jehovah’s blessing, he and his wife thought they could do more so he quit his full-time job, sold their house and moved where there was greater need. 

[Sheep]

I was a programmer in the 1980s, programming in COBOL and RPG 400. I got baptized in '85 but continued in programming for a few years after. I tried doing part-time work so I could be a pioneer, but it was difficult managing my time. If the company I worked for had a problem with a computer program, they wanted it fixed immediately, not having to wait three days until my next work-day. I also did full-time, short-term projects for companies, which worked reasonably well. But my pioneering was somewhat unbalanced; during the times I worked, I was never in service during the week. And when I wasn't working (between contracts), I had to be in service every day for very long days.

 

No. In the long run it didn't work.

 

Edited January 19, 2023 by Sheep

[-Chris-]

I've known a few, know of one brother in the area and also does a bit of network and configuration for LDC. Of course there's our brother Anthony Corbett who has open sourced a great deal of useful software. I've also found a few online in various capacities. There was someone on Neegr8tr posting for part time Django work.

 

 

[computerwiz]

I'm a programmer, but a bit behind in the technologies that are being used today.  I made the Literature Room Organizer (LRO) program that many congregations use.  Though I haven't updated it in a while...  

 

These days, it's very challenging to work on projects outside of secular work.

[Osprey]

I work as a programmer and IT specialist and my clients are mainly telecommunication companies from various parts of the world (billing systems etc). It is an interesting field of work and am interested to know if some JW works in an IT telecommunication sphere too.

[Sylv]

My husband is programmer. He works for a medical laboratory and is an applications developer/high level support person.