> What does make one a scientist? Someone once told me with all of the 
> things I do I should be a scientist.
> 
> ... My thought was, "By experimenting with the world around me, and 
> observing the effects ... doesn't that by definition make me one?"

I would suggest so, yes.

> Then again, I'm not a professor, I have no college degree, and my career 
> choice is "Code Monkey" so, does that exclude me from being a scientist? 
> Do I need a career as a researcher to consider myself a scientist?

You know that there are people who do scientific experiments *about* 
computer programs, right? ;-)

> I'm socially awkward... but, that only makes me a nerd, not a scientist :)

LAMO! Someone give this man a WIN badge! :-D

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