Re:Tom Williams: Hired by Apple at 14. His full story.
by zimbabwe on Monday July 06, 2009 @04:58PM
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I wish kids were taught this at a young age. I learned it at seventeen; two years later, I'm still struggling with a lot of the things I've needed to unlearn. I have friends my age who still don't believe this, who are forcing themselves on generic career paths because they don't think anything else is an option. I worry for them pretty often.
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Re:Tom Williams: Hired by Apple at 14. His full story.
by jacquesm on Monday July 06, 2009 @05:09PM
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Well, the funny thing here is my own career path was not exactly textbook either, and still I worry about my son.
As for yourself keep an open mind, definitely not everything about 'regular' education is bad, but some people have a hard time adapting to the system and the system definitely won't adapt to them, if you are one of these then go ahead and carve your own path, I'm sure we'll be hearing great things about you one of these days.
Re:Tom Williams: Hired by Apple at 14. His full story.
by zimbabwe on Monday July 06, 2009 @06:33PM
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I'd love to hear your story when you've got time. WW isn't a site we hear a lot about on HN, and I've always been a little curious.
Re:Tom Williams: Hired by Apple at 14. His full story.
by jacquesm on Monday July 06, 2009 @06:48PM
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ok, I'll write it up and post it as a separate link, otherwise I'd really be hijacking this thread.
Re:Tom Williams: Hired by Apple at 14. His full story.
by stanleydrew on Monday July 06, 2009 @08:40PM
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A lot of people here are very good at learning things on their own, and very quickly at that. This is most definitely not true of a lot of the population. Having a talent for picking up new things helps a ton in giving you the confidence to pursue "non-generic" career paths, and I don't know that teaching kids that they can pursue these kinds of paths will make much difference if they don't have a talent for it.