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I'm a programmer and an historian. So the title of this entry gave me a wrong first impression: there are more people like me! I'm not alone! Imagine the disapp
by janwillemb 10y ago
I'm a programmer and an historian. So the title of this entry gave me a wrong first impression: there are more people like me! I'm not alone! Imagine the disappointment... ;)
- jcsalterego 10y agoThere are more people like you, I bet!
- ianferrel 10y agoThere are dozens of us. Dozens!
- bitdeveloper 10y agoI am one of the dozens. If only I was able to locate a history-related technology job. It seems like you need to be in Washington DC to find anything like that.
- jcsalterego 10y agoI'm quite happy that at least three historian-programmers have come together, here.
- kreetx 10y agoAdd fourth! But I quit the academic path due to economic reasons, i.e bad pay, and needing to apply to grants. I think unless you're explicitly acknowledged as an engineer/programmer it's hard to get anything remotely competitive.
- didsomeonesay 10y agoMy wife is a historian, I'm a programmer. That does not make me the fifth but at least a sympathizer ;)
- janwillemb 10y agoWe should start a club! ;)
- janwillemb 10y agoIn the Netherlands, where I live, there is the International Institute of Social History, which does a lot of data processing, and has programmers as employees. As a student I screw up an interview very badly, by not showing up. I still regret it after 20 years. How stupid can a youngster be. On the other hand I don't have any complaints about my work and pay and benefits at the jobs I have had since then, which probably would have been very different had I gone the historyprogrammer route.
- taneq 10y agoHow to spot a historian: "actually it's 'an' historian, from the old English..." ;)
- jrimbault 10y agohttp://programminghistorian.org/ http://programminghistorian.org/ I'm not an historian, but most of my friends are somewhere in the humanities fields, and two of them are historians.
- janwillemb 10y agoThanks for the link!