On Sat, Sep 01, 2007, Herouth Maoz wrote about "Re: Career advice needed": > If I decided that I'm interested in CGI, or > artificial intelligence, or quantum computing, or Macintosh > application programming, do you really think that a job would "pop > up"?
Obviously, you can't "decide" that you're interested in something... You need to convince employers that you have one or more of (with bonus points if you have more than one of them): 1. Burning desire (a passion) for the topic 2. Better than average knowledge in the topic 3. Better than average experience in the topic For example (to start with your example), I took a Quantum Computing course in the Technion. Does that make me employable in this subject? Of course not. I have no passion for this subject, I don't have much knowledge on this subject that hundreds of other Technions students don't have, and I have absolutely no experience. On the other hand, if you look at my involvement in the Hebrew linguistic world - I think I demonstrated a passion for it (not everybody writes a spell-checker for fun...) and experience (again, not everybody designed and wrote a working spell-checker and morphological analyzer). This kind of passion, knowledge and experience *is* something that you can do in 6 months, and in fact the first working version of Hspell (if you allow me to continue with this example) was ready in less than 6 months. But the first thing - "passion" - is kind of hard to "develop" (if you find a particular topic boring, it won't be easy to develop a passion for it - not in 6 months and not in a lifetime). -- Nadav Har'El | Sunday, Sep 2 2007, 19 Elul 5767 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a http://nadav.harel.org.il |cat. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
