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Everyone is scared of something. Living a life as a computer programmer (or a coder, as some would say), I fear the most about the following things (randomly ordered):

1. One day, I will stop liking my job (i.e. programming). I can imagine programming is the kind of work that can be miserable if you don’t love it.
2. I may have to work on a language/environment that I dislike. (e.g. Java).
3. I may end up in a job where I have to wear suit and a tie. Because I believe that Neckties are simply punishment for wimping out and getting a business degree.
4. I would end up working with another developer who doesn’t actually know what they’re doing, but they believe their way is the best way. And that developer is actually above me in the chain of command, so I have to do things their way.
5. Data Loss. But then they say, you haven’t lived until you’ve dropped a production database.
6. Someone will steal my closed-source code.
7. My code may get posted on TheDailyWTF.
8. Having no Internet. Someday the Internet as we know will cease to exist.
9. My significant other hates computer / programming / gadgets / me-in-front-of-a-computer.
10. Last but not the least, I will die alone.

Thankfully I’ve not had any of these fears realized yet!

Of these, the first is the biggest one. Imagine, getting bored of everything about developing, programming, computers, Internet… I’m afraid that, after investing so many year in programming (15 and counting), we get to that age that, “Please… no more computers!” and then I wonder what will I do.

Getting afraid that even though I have the passion of developing and creating web business applications (that’s what drives me), I’m getting sick of such new versions of programming languages, new ways of doing it, new paradigms, it all come too fast… I can’t know it all as I wanted. I’m exhaust of pursuing the new technologies, takes time to be good at one, and when your good… there are 5 more, 3 of them Upgrades! Hell! But then again… without programming something… what else can I do?