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Wow, I didn't think this would get much of a response and I really appreciate all the advice given thus far. I realize now that I really should have been more
by callinyouin 11y ago
Wow, I didn't think this would get much of a response and I really appreciate all the advice given thus far.
I realize now that I really should have been more specific about a couple of points. First, by "web job" I mostly mean jobs that would be characterized as "full stack". This is what I currently do for a living (enterprise, for a company with 1000+ employees), and from what I can tell this is mostly what's being advertised in job postings. There are many things one could do deep in the depths of some company's back-end that I wouldn't consider a "web job".
As far as what domain I'd rather be working in, that's really the 10 million dollar question. I feel like it's time for me to make a decision and specialize, but I really can't narrow it down to one, single domain. I've taken a machine learning course and really enjoyed that. I did some work with parallel computing in CUDA with a professor while in school and ended up with my name on a paper that made its way into a peer-reviewed journal. I've done a decent amount of hobby game and network programming, hacked a bit on an Arduino and a Raspberry Pi, and I've recently been getting into audio DSP stuff. I really like a lot of different things and I'm more than a little afraid to limit myself to one area for the rest of my career.