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Unexpected Reasons Why Developers Will Survive The Apocalypse

When the zombies strike, you’ll be living it up in your high-tech mega bunker with these sweet skills. Until then, why not make the most of them at Accenture.

1. The problem-solving side of your brain has already adapted to see the bigger picture.

2. They laughed at your inability to throw away old wires and cables…

3. Years of writing code has taught you emotional detachment.

4. You picked up all sorts of life skills in the time it took your code to upload or compile.

5. Social hierarchy means nothing to you.

6. Your fingers are strangely strong and muscled from all that flexing at keyboards…

7. You can melt the gold out of all those motherboards you've been hoarding, mould a crown, and declare yourself supreme ruler.

8. If you hear the word "scuzzy" it doesn't immediately have negative connotations.

9. Even in a world without opticians, you can still C#.

10. Your instinct is to try every option.

11. Your encyclopaedic grasp of knowledge and trivia FINALLY has a use outside pub quizzes.

12. All that time spent gaming means you're a sharper shooter than a trained marksman.

13. If you're a tester, your brain is already wired to think "what's the worst that can happen?"

14. You've perfected the art of staring at life through rose-tinted glasses.

15. If you can turn bacon and coffee into code, you can turn SOMETHING in to water.

16. You find out about the end of the world via all the new questions on Stack Overflow…

17. If you can find the missing } in all this, you can find food.

18. Your waking hours were all messed up anyway.

19. After the end of the world, all you care about is there are less IE users to support.

20. When used computer parts become currency in this post apocalyptic world, you'll be laughing.

21. You like nothing more than fixing something that isn't broken.

22. The more *nix-based servers you've had to manage, the more you've learnt how to kill zombies.

23. You think a reboot fixes most problems, so you don't even mind if something has tried to reboot the world.

Don’t let your rare talents go to waste. Accenture are looking for digital people like you.

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