Change Career - The Price of Monkeys?
Wednesday, April 19, 2006 at 10:44AM 
11-year-old on the price of Monkeys:
A tourist walked into a pet shop and was looking at the animals on display, when another customer walked in and said to the shopkeeper, "I'll have a "C" monkey please."
The shopkeeper nodded, went over to a cage at the side of the shop and took out a monkey. "That'll be £5,000." The customer paid and walked out with his monkey. Startled, the tourist went over to the shopkeeper and said,
"That was a very expensive monkey. Why did it cost so much?"
The shopkeeper answered, "Ah, that monkey can programme in C - very fast, tight code, no bugs, well worth the money."
The tourist looked at the monkey in another cage. "That one's even more expensive! $10,000! What does it do?"
"Oh, that one's a C++ monkey; it can manage object-oriented programming, Visual C++, even some Java. All the really useful stuff," said the shopkeeper.
The tourist looked around for a little longer and saw a third monkey in a cage of its own. The price tag around its neck read $50,000. He gasped to the shopkeeper,"That one costs more than all the others put together!
What on earth does it do?"
The shopkeeper replied, "Well, I haven't actually seen it do anything, but the other monkeys call him the Management Consultant."
