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What do you want to be when you "grow up?" (pg. 6)
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| all-nite-freak |
| i want to grow up to be malek because his wife is hot. |
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| lawrenceq |
Just finished 3rd of 4 yrs of my Crim honours degree, throwing in a psych minor with it, and after that a 2 yr special Business comm. degree just for s and giggles. With that I might be able to rule part of the world or work for a government organization in terms of national security... hmmm
If that doesn't work out, I'm off to the Bahamas to open up my own Tiki bar, or something along the lines of Cafe Mambo/ Kanya.
If that doesnt work out then Im gonna work full time for Tostito's chips, who can resist fre tostito's and salsa???
oh and I want a son to carry on my legacy of course ;) |
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| malek |
| quote: | Originally posted by all-nite-freak
i want to grow up to be malek because his wife is hot. |
maybe i should get a restraining order...:nervous: :nervous: :nervous: |
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| DigiNut |
| quote: | Originally posted by spitty
i wouldn't ever work for the US anyway. |
Bwahahahaha
Don't ever change. <3
| quote: | Originally posted by beefy k
Working on my Electrical Engineering Degree from Queen's. |
What year? Have you gotten to the god-awful solid-state physics class yet? Or did they finally chuck it?
| quote: | Originally posted by malek
priority #1 is to stop coding, I hate that, its for monkies. |
IMO, it's only for monkeys if you've got someone giving you specific instructions about what to code and you don't have any say in the design. Of course maybe the higher level architectural/design stuff is what you're talking about wanting to do instead, but in most small companies the project leads have to do both. Maybe if you're at a giant company like RIM or Sun or Accenture you can get a job dealing solely with the business side...
Only thing I hate about software is the ridiculous amount of stuff in the industry that I have to keep up with just to stay in the game. I really don't want to start learning everything about .NET 3.0 when I've barely scratched the surface of the massive 2.0 framework. Nor do I want to know Haskell, Python, Ruby, or any of the other latest fads. Oh well. |
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| malek |
actually its a huge company (CATIA rings a bell?), but we're a huge team of two maintaining everything written in house in the Montréal office.
So most of the time its rewritting stuff and that is mostly done by gypsy coding because things weren't written proprely and we don't have time to redo stuff... but also I write my own stuff, i am the project manager, architect, analyst, coder and QA guy at the same time, you get the idea.
we also have people working for 150$ us per hour but they don't keep most of it ;) |
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| DigiNut |
Heh, jokes. Maintenance programming can be hell, especially when the original programmers didn't know what the hell they were doing (i.e. always). Working at a big company like that, I'll bet you read TDWTF, maybe even made a few submissions, eh?
Then again, that's where the big money is if you work freelance. As you said, you can get $150 or $200 an hour working for consulting companies like SAP or IBM, but you don't keep much of that.
I don't have to do any of that right now, it's all new systems design and pretty heavy conceptual work, so I'm basically OK with it. Maybe I'm just a monkey though. :p |
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| malek |
never heard of TDWTF... and IBM sells CATIA for Dassault for whom I work.
My idea is that staying in front of a computer for 8 hours a day trying to figure out what the hell to do with little contact with people is not my definition of aging with grace hehehe...
I went from two extremes, huge govt bureau with hundreds and big big systems to a very small dev team, and I hate both equally :) |
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| DigiNut |
| quote: | Originally posted by malek
never heard of TDWTF... |
Unbelievable!
http://www.thedailywtf.com
(The name of the site recently got changed and most of the submissions for the past 6 months have been crap, but if you dig into the archives you'll see some truly mind-bending stuff that's both hilarious and frightening. Like Feb/March '06 and earlier, I'd say.)
And yeah, I do hear ya about sitting in front of the PC for 8 hours a day. Although it's not only programmers who are subjected to that, it's a lot of white-collar workers. And if you go the consulting route, you get to meet lots of different clients, drop the time-wasters and spend only as much time programming as you really want. ;) |
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| above'N'beyond |
I just finshed my 4th year and have basically graduated from York with a Bachelor of Arts in Criminology which gets me nowhere
A criminology degree really doesnt lead you in any particular direction.
AKA I HAVE NO F***ING CLUE!
someone help...... |
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| Cribby |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigiNut
I really don't want to start learning everything about .NET 3.0 when I've barely scratched the surface of the massive 2.0 framework. |
I concur. After learning .Net 1.0 in my first years of school and getting used to it, they decide to change the whole curriculum and teach C# with the 2.0 framework. At least it's backwards compatible, but still :/ |
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