Zac Bowling’s Blog

I’ve done a lot since I first got interested in computers. It’s my hobby, my carrier, and basically my life. I got started back in the early 90s in the Windows 3.1 days. I wasn’t even out of elementary school before I was programming. In the 4th grade I wrote my first C program, and I knew immediately what I wanted to do. Since that time, I progressed pretty dang far, pretty dang quick. Reflecting on my life, I really hit every goal that I ever wanted to hit. I have to say that while I’m happy as I ever wanted to be, I’m just not that satisfied.

I’m setting a new goal that by 2010, on my 25th birthday, I’m doing something internationally recognizable. I want to manage other developers by then and help them get to the same status that I’m was at, at this point I’m at right now in my life. That means I don’t have much time either. I have to get started now and make it happen. Time to get started!

More to come later….

One thing I known for in my office is my wacky t-shirts. We don’t really have a standardized dress code anymore. There was one years ago (the up until the early 90s) at Texas Instruments. The rules are relaxed a bit at TI over the years from what I hear and it really depends on the division and area of TI you work for I guess more then anything (over 35,500 employees worldwide and thats not including students, interns, and contractors, every part of the company is like its own little company altogether).

Our QA is staff is know for being pretty lax on their own dress (sometimes even flip flops). Maybe thats why the have they work in the basement? Out of all the developers, I’m the only one that dares to ware a t-shirt more then once a month.

At Match.com, the dress code was extremely lax (I don’t even think the CEO even wore a tie). At Nortel is was mandatory for slacks and a collared shirt and a tie was recommended. When I interviewed for Mary Kay, it was required to ware more then just a tie, but everyone was heavily encouraged to ware only the best looking designer clothing.

Funny stuff…