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Only if you're not paid by the hour.
by KGIII 9y ago
Only if you're not paid by the hour.
- lovich 9y agoTrue, but is that a significant amount of people who would be going to boot camps for engineering? The type of people who have the personality to get and succeed at consulting jobs seem to overlap heavily with the type of people who can learn on their own
- lloyd-christmas 9y agoYou're saying people who actively sought out continuing education and were willing to do a career transition are people who aren't willing to learn on their own? That's just silly.
- KGIII 9y agoI think they are saying the opposite. Some of the stats in the thread seem to indicate that a not insignificant minority do self employ or consult.
- lovich 9y agoI was saying the opposite.
- lloyd-christmas 9y agoSorry, I completely misinterpreted that as "taking coursework" is the opposite of "independent learning"
- lovich 9y agoNah I meant more that bootcamps aren't the "proper path" for lack of a better phrase, that everyone goes to by default. It takes a certain amount of motivation to go out of the norm, or at least a certain amount of comfort with that risk, and that same mindset applies to entreprenership. I say this as someone who just went to college because that's what you do and only got into software because my degree led to a $10/hr job which could not pay rent and student loans. If I had gotten 25 or 30 an hour there's a good chance I never would have had the impetus to teach myself anything