Haha guys.
The job looks cooler than it actually is
Programming in c isn't as cracked up as you'd think it is (hahaahha its not even cracked up). I mean the first few weeks were very cool. Toying around with killing machines; especially when we were out shooting with them.
But after a few weeks its like a boring programming job. You sit at your desk in your office and work on some piece of code someone, who has probably left the company now, wrote 10 years ago and noone else wants to touch. You're not in charge of anything design wise, since everything you do is either an old bug that the customer (US army) wants to get nailed or it is some new functionality that is first asked for by the customer, then reviewed by management, then detailed by your department leader and then assigned to you. Monkey see, monkey do.
Which is why at the end of the day I dream of getting home and work with c# in unity and forget all about pointers and memory handling and just have fun with game play
Usually tho, I get so sleepy that I almost kill myself when driving home from work because I'm not getting enough sleep. So when I get home I either try to stay awake to not ruin a nights sleep but then I dont get to do any work because I'm exhausted. Or I do as I do today and sleep a few hours after work and try working on my game until a couple of hours past midnight.