When ever I teach, my first night lecture ususally include a talk about this
career field and one of the things I always tell the students ... "When I
was a kid, I asked my mom about becoming a doctor. She said, 'Well, that's a
fine job and you can make lots of money, but you never really stop going to
school. (and I hated school). Doctors have to read all of the medical
journals and read medical books and never stop learning because medicine
changes so fast. Well, that didn't sound too appealing to me, but guess
what happened when I became an adult ... I went into the Internet
development, where technology is constantly changing and you have to keep
learning to keep up and you have to read all the journals and learn, learn,
learn all of the time."
If you're not prepared to be a life-long learner, this is not a good career
choice.
H.
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Howard Owens
Web Producer
InsideVC.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Kear [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 3:58 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Slightly OT: Lighten things up a little
>
> This will amuse some of you no doubt ... my 20 year old son dropped out of
> university. He just wouldn't put in the work and the results reflected
> his effort. He's got a job in a support department for a software
> company.
>
> After he made the decision to drop out (only days before the decision was
> made for him I should add) he sat back in the couch and said "Ahhhh. At
> last. I'm finished with all that learning!"
>
> HEhehe . hate to have bad news for you kid, but your learning's only just
> started.
>
> Seems to me the vast majority of people earning a living in Internet
> disciplines are doing things they never learned in university. Technology
> is just moving far too fast for schools to keep up.
>
> Similarly, if we let our own knowledge fall behind, we're dead ducks.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Mike Kear
> AFP Web Development
> Windsor, NSW, Australia
>
>
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