here is my guess then
in your bio, it says "developer" from chicago...that could mean anything
but you asked us to guess so i am assuming you have a non standard bio here and you have something extraordinary in your background
people with my degree in college (hr and/or personnel) often become private investigators so here is my guess based on your posts:
if a person is a techie and they are a software developer, they almost always use the term programmer and sometimes use the term software developer but i have never ever heard the term developer used in IT in the silicon valley...software developer, software engineer, engineer, software techie, techie, apps guy, god, project manager, programmer, coder, but never just "developer"...but i am talking about california and silicon valley in general...i am a hardware techie and i live and breathe the culture but not always by choice
i studied to be a "systems engineer" many years after college and we are called network guys, techs, techies, systems administrators, network administrators, network engineers, gods, bums, but very rarely are we called systems engineers...just like pharmacists are rarely called "doctors" even though they have a doctor of pharmacy degree
my guess is that you are much more wealthy than that and you are a real estate developer and maybe even a multi-millionaire and at least as old as me (38) or even in your 40s and 50s, white, but possibly african american, married or divorced but not single, have two kids, and perhaps a grandkid (i know ctolling and i are not the only old men of macrumors, or at least i hope not)
i assume you have a high end mac, more likely a portable for your real estate business and you are saavy so you also have a pc laptop, too
to keep up with the image of being a serious developer, you are a sharp dresser and view being overwieght or being bald as a symbol or experience or wealth...you know and i know that most people wouldn't buy a real estate development from a skinny 25 year old with long hair
i believe you are progressive being a mac user and you voted for al gore but you have some conservative business beliefs and have to be good with finances
your property is in apartments and commercial real estate because a person who owns many rental homes rarely call themselves developers
i live in a town full of rich, older, and highly educated real estate developers and they always run for local office in my city, county, and state, and if they are not a lawyer running for office, they are a "developer" and both fields are known for having articulate speakers of which you seem to be from what i have seen from your posts
as great as software techies are, i may be biased here as a hardware guy, the software developers are not the best when it comes to speaking or writing and thus my belief that you are a real estate developer and thus more educated and rich...you are too articulate to be the average shy, introverted programmer
san jose is a high tech town, so is dallas, san diego, and phoenix...i cannot think of any high tech companies in chicago (my good friend who i see weekly is from there with his stanford phd in computer science and he got out of chicago because there is literally no programming work to speak of for such a large city which could be the most anti-high tech city in the world...remember that chicago along with nyc invented the american industrial revolution and is proud of those roots and even the university of chicago business school (one of the best) stubbornly teaches 19th century economics...which after the dot.com bust does not sound so bad as brick and mortar stocks now rule the roost)
yet in real estate developement, i believe chicago is number two or three in the nation after new york city
i admit while writing this post, i consulted my library so don't think i am smart, i just have a hell of a lot of books
you seem to be highly educated and do not sound like a young poster
and most important of all, if you were a "software" developer, you would not ask us to guess because you would know the non-techies not in the field would automatically assume you were a software developer just like many people assume everybody here is a mac user first and foremost
i had to guess on two other people on macrumors and i was luckily dead on (after studying their posts and language used) and one commented i was frightening...i was simply an hr person and i had to sell prospective military personnel to employees based on very incomplete resumes so i had to be a us government mind reader for a living
so, old mac, am i close?
or did you use reverse psychology on me by simply using the incomplete term "developer"?
or is that what the midwesterners call a software developer?
my wife calls me her husband but my female friend from chicago calls her husband "dad" so there are definitely cultural differences from chicago and northern california
incidentally, the other type of developer i can think of is a person in development for non profits and they don't call themselves developers either
i guesstimate that i am 75 percent right on my prediction (age, race, political beliefs, computers owned) even if you are a software developer and you are under age 40 but then why call yourself "old" mac?
let me know, i am curious and i found this a fun diversion istead of talking about g5s
