Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not

Re:Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not by bigred100 on Saturday September 21, 2019 @05:45PM (#21038096)

My personal opinion is that the average person is struggling not to die of obesity or become diabetic, not be massively in debt, take reasonably good care of their kids, attain a reasonable level of education, etc. So from this perspective nobody really cares about a computer programmer getting to do an interesting project for a year.

As for government funding for interesting projects, the way you get these is submitting research proposals to the NSF or something. Unfortunately I think it’s rare for them to give you money if you’re not a university professor or something.

As I understand it there are similar public and private grants for artists but you probably have to be pretty good already to get one.

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Re:Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not by cheez on Saturday September 21, 2019 @06:55PM (#21038407)

> My personal opinion is that the average person is struggling not to die of obesity or become diabetic, not be massively in debt, take reasonably good care of their kids, attain a reasonable level of education, etc. So from this perspective nobody really cares about a computer programmer getting to do an interesting project for a year.

This is so poetically stated.

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