> Just FYI, some for some of us software engineering _is_ the > alternative career. I, for example, started off as an architect and > became a software engineer because I found it interesting -- at the > time it had not yet become the Indian middle class' ideal of a safe > career.
This story is so common among us old folks. I stumbled into a bunch of CS courses some decades back because I was getting medium grades in my math major and all-A's in my CS sideline, and I liked it. There were tons of us escapees from Physics and Biology and you-name it. Then one day, in a course which happened to be taught by the head of the CS department, he said "The strangest thing is happening... everyone we graduate with a bachelor's degree is getting snapped up and at really very decent salaries". The room was silent as a tomb... we'd genuinely had no idea. -Tim
