It is absolutely true, you must keep up on your ace primary coding language and you probably should know one or two other primaries quite well. But, try to keep in mind that your career is your job and not your life and you must make efforts to collar your job a bit and meanwhile concurrently get into some of the things you enjoy. Further...
Paraphrasing very roughly from the book: Rise of the Creative Class. More and more professionals (true creatives and otherwise) are opting earlier in their lives to make their home base in fresh "creative" community areas like Idaho, Colorado, New Hampshire, South Carolina and New Mexico while still telecommuting their specialized work, and getting to enjoy: i) more generally found gourmet foods, ii) traveling big city entertainment, and iii) most other quality resources and services that for decades have been captive to urban centers ------- Essentially, since the committed for life one job career has become a thing of the past -- one is essentially behooved to take more matters of your personal, medical, financial and career life into your own hands early on. Be more holistic about all your living. Flowing and continuous. Not rigidly compartmentalized. ------- Successfully programming intensely for a living is a very high stress and often isolating experience. At the same time, it is one of the most democratically attainable, portable, and flexible career paths out there today. Yet, I think, it is doubtful that very many people are going to become intensely rich from programming. So if you can, take advantage of the flexibility your programming career offers to you that many other career paths do not offer to others. It is almost your obligation to reap more of the bounty offered via your career. Be flexible, be creative, take small chances. ------ Paraphrasing very roughly again, from the extreme film Turistas, Dr. Zamora advises: "To take the right action is great. To take the wrong action is good. To take no action is unconscionable." Live your life, don't watch it. Warmest regards, Peter Sawczynec Technology Dir. Sun-code Interactive Sun-code.com 646.316.3678 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ajai Khattri Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 3:54 PM To: NYPHP Talk Subject: Re: [nyphp-talk] Ruby gets another framework On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, tedd wrote: > I have a client who thinks Ruby is the ultimate leading edge of programming. Right about now, they all do... There's nothing in Ruby per se that you can't do in PHP but its hip right now. > Arrgggg -- I'm getting tired of learning. Welcome to the "sick-of-learning-another-language" club. But seriously, as the cliche goes, change is the only constant in technology. Sometimes it makes you want to go work on a farm* instead :-) * You might be "Better Off" http://amazon.com/dp/B000FTWAYU -- Aj. _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
