On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Nick Wienholt <[email protected]> wrote: > I spent my whole masters degree (numerical modelling of the effects of beach > dewatering in a micro-tidal environment) doing this type of stuff, and then > my first two years out of uni doing the same thing (98 and 99) (1- and 2-D > numerical modelling to allow the GIS overlay of the effects of various flood > plain drainage systems to financial asses cost versus damage prevention). > > Because of the DotCom boom, it was about three times more rewarding to do > junk software like CRUD screens in ADO and DAO instead of the really > complex, intellectually meaningful development. I still think there is a > doubling of salary to do enterprise software over engineering software, and > the economic drivers are hard to ignore long-term. > > Doing fun, interesting software with tools like Matlab just isn't as > financially well rewarded, and hence tends to be the domain of the hobbyist > and academic from what I've seen.
I'd do a lot of things differently if all I wanted was money :P :) Cheers for the links guys. > Nick -- silky Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy — the joy of being this signature.
