-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I don't know where Tim goes to school, but it's probable that his professors are adjunct faculty with enough experience to judge whether or not Tim can make a career of it. In any case, we all know that IT has long been a refuge for every sub-mediocre, dysfunctional social outcast that the fast food sector couldn't absorb.
Regards Robert Schainbaum Joseph Ottinger wrote: | Tim, I'm sure they did. Professors' opinions generally don't hold much weight with me, considering how often I've had to deal with less-than-as-competent-as-expected graduates. Generally, the people who are, in fact, suited for this field wouldn't bother to ask a professor, not needing the reassurance such questioning would bring. Programming is both art and engineering; the field is crowded with people who excel in art (and are sloppy programmers - artists who don't realise the lines are there for a reason) or engineering (who are boring programmers, grunts who get confused when the problem requires that you draw outside the lines). Neither one is very satisfactory in the real world. In my honest opinion - being on the opposite side of the world, it's not likely our paths will cross - you're destined for the engineering side, unable to handle new problems without being prepared beforehand. (The fact that you asked your professors is a clue in this direction. An artist would say "Ha! Who are you to judge!" and a true programmer would say, "Yeah, right, what do you know, I'll code my number-to-text converter on my own, and add internationalization just to show you, you punk.") | | Can you change direction? Sure you can. People do it all the time. But right now your degree would be paper, and you'd be great for generating code from pseudocode and UML, almost as good as something like Together/CC, except a lot more expensive and moody. | | Who wants to be replaceable? | |> From: "Tim Nicholson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |> Subject: what my professors said about this.... |> Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 20:01:45 +1000 |> |> Hi Joseph, |> |> thanks for your opinion but 2 of my professors have actually said that I can succeed in IT/software development. |> |> | | | ----------------------------------------------- | Joseph B. Ottinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://enigmastation.com IT Consultant | | _________________________________________________________________ | Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com | | | ____________________________________________________ | To change your JDJList options, please visit: | http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm | | Save Bandwidth! Clean up your posts before replying | ____________________________________________________ | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQE9lj+zOnk5FWbSIpgRAj5wAKCxXTp569FHGAiHRxmzRl8Bf9tRDACgsiEP oHwhbv42nv3dLcS7UCR+Lmk= =cLwo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ____________________________________________________ To change your JDJList options, please visit: http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm Save Bandwidth! Clean up your posts before replying ____________________________________________________
