poor programmer...

Problem with the application programmer’s job is that no matter how hard I work and how smart I am, I can never become a mass celebrity or win a noble prize or a Bharat Ratn, Padma Shree or Padma Vibhusan. I am the meek supporter of a bold economy. I am the wistful spectator of a celebrity world.

I mean, a programmer cannot reach out to the people of this world. A journalist writes an article and hundreds of people read it and make opinions about the world. A programmer writes a program and nobody but the compiler understands it, and years later if someone actually dares to go through the source code (which is like the junkyard of a programmer's irrational thoughts), the poor programmer’s soul gets all sorts of critiques and curses, whereas a journalist receives the Pulitzer Prize for his years of service to the world, or even gets the Best Critics Award of the Year!
In a group of people of different professions, a programmer appears like a laid back citizen of an undeveloped world, an unevolved civilization. That’s the problem with the world of programmers. We don’t have role models. If one wants to become a great journalist or a sportsman or a politician s/he has role models like Thomas Friedman, Christiano Ronaldo and George Bush. But if one wants to become a programmer – there is nobody, everyone is on his/her own on the road to perdition.

But it is good for unambitious people who don't seek fame and celebrity status, those outcast self proclaimed geniuses who want to live unknown to the world of natural human beings and go as the tiny footnotes in the pages of history.