Re:Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B
by zkz on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @01:08AM
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The key is to make the algorithms and mathematics, not the languages, your tools. Some things never change.
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Re:Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B
by timr on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @03:19AM
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The key is to get someone to pay you in proportion to the cost of obtaining that knowledge.
Re:Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B
by aswanson on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @10:03AM
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Bingo. I remember being an undergrad watching all the other majors play frisbee while we suffered. "That's ok", I remember thinking "this has to pay off. I mean, why else would we be doing this and not enjoying life? Wait until we graduate, then we'll see whos living it up!"
A dot com crash and several cube jobs later, those same folk are living in better homes and driving luxury suvs while I am pondering how I can escape the hell that is a modern day software cubicle job....Guess the joke really is on us.