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If it's your true vocation, the thing you're so passionate about that you must do it, nothing so trivial as what strangers might think is going to dissuade you.
by prodigal_erik 17y ago
If it's your true vocation, the thing you're so passionate about that you must do it, nothing so trivial as what strangers might think is going to dissuade you. Anything else merely keeps a roof over your head while wasting your time, so it doesn't really matter what you settle for.
- Psyonic 17y agoWhile I agree, I can't for the life of me figure out where you stand in this whole debate. What you said seems to suggest that you don't think geeks need to change, because those who truly want to work in CS will anyway... but you seemed to write that as some sort of rebuttal to someone who was asserting that very thing.
- prodigal_erik 17y agoI was arguing against > What matters is what a teenager trying to decide what to do with their lives thinks a programmer/hairdresser/any other job "looks like" because I think if that matters, they're making the wrong decision.