1.  He landed a programming job with Burroughs and later became a researcher at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

2.  His friends say he may be supporting himself through a computer programming job he gained by using a false identity.

3.  In March, Brown was all but offered a programming job at Sun Microsystems Inc., the Palo Alto, Calif.-based computer networking giant.

4.  Last month, Lossos was laid off from a part-time programming job at a local Internet retailing firm.

5.  Last spring, Ms. Simon quit her computer programming job in nearby Boulder to devote full time to the alpaca business.

6.  Similarly, Mahajan, who works for Westford-based Intersoft Technologies Inc. developing telecommunications software, sees her programming job as helping the US economy.

7.  Until recently Allman maintained Sendmail as a hobby, while he worked at a variety of programming jobs.

8.  Yet more and more workers are working longer or odd hours, whether bagging groceries at midnight or rushing to finish a crash programming job.

9.  It is common practice for U.S. companies to send their programming jobs to contractors in countries where they can pay less for the same work.