I don't know about you guys but I tried manual labour, back in the day when I had to find some money to get through studying.
Turns out it's not only heavy work, over long hours, in perhaps bad weather and dangerous conditions. You also have to think, plan ahead, lookout all the time that the machinery does not kill you.
It was those stints that stopped me throwing in the towel when I was totally baffled by statistical mechanics, quantum-electrodynamics and so on.
A decade ago, when I ran out or programming work, I took a job in a ship yard for a couple of months. Again I was reminded why I'd rather be facing a software project failure.
We should not look down on or belittle the work that others do. Or imagine we have it in any way "hard".
I wish I could back to programming for a living. Have been working in retail for the last seven years. Lifting bags of mulch, dirt, rock, and stone. I now have arthritis in my back. I want to work and I love to program. My little robot hobby for the last couple months has done wonders for my attitude. Anyone hiring a programmer out there??????
And YES - there a lot of programming jobs out there. A good start is to have an engineering or technical degree in something / or anything. Another plus is to have a ham / amateur radio license (worth a college degree in some cases) There is a big ham / computer convention in Dayton Ohio, on May 15 to18th. Any and everything that has a wire in it will be there, the best of the best engineers and tech products will be there, jobs will be there (just ask)
And YES - there a lot of programming jobs out there. A good start is to have an engineering or technical degree in something / or anything. Another plus is to have a ham / amateur radio license (worth a college degree in some cases) There is a big ham / computer convention in Dayton Ohio, on May 15 to18th. Any and everything that has a wire in it will be there, the best of the best engineers and tech products will be there, jobs will be there (just ask)
Another plus is to have a ham / amateur radio license (worth a college degree in some cases)
I don't mean to belittle the HAM radio guys. And I don't mean to imply that degreeless people are some how inferior. After all Clive Sinclair and Bill Gates did OK.
But on which planet is three or four years study at a university equivalent to getting an amateur radio license?
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This is better: Programming is terrible—Lessons learned from a life wasted.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csyL9EC0S0c
There is a whine component but I think it's for the sake of humor and general entertainment value.
Watched it before and like it a lot. He does a great job and certainly has more meaningful content.
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Turns out it's not only heavy work, over long hours, in perhaps bad weather and dangerous conditions. You also have to think, plan ahead, lookout all the time that the machinery does not kill you.
It was those stints that stopped me throwing in the towel when I was totally baffled by statistical mechanics, quantum-electrodynamics and so on.
A decade ago, when I ran out or programming work, I took a job in a ship yard for a couple of months. Again I was reminded why I'd rather be facing a software project failure.
We should not look down on or belittle the work that others do. Or imagine we have it in any way "hard".
Do you have any info about the convention?
But on which planet is three or four years study at a university equivalent to getting an amateur radio license?