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I'll be the guy who ruins it by asking a clarifying question. If I can do it all over, does that mean, that I keep the wide mental aperture I have forced open o
by digitalsushi 8y ago
I'll be the guy who ruins it by asking a clarifying question. If I can do it all over, does that mean, that I keep the wide mental aperture I have forced open over the past 20 years, by learning how people work, learning how general process works, folding probable outcomes and recognizing corner cases, into my personal toolkit? And forget the software engineering? I'd have to go with a hell no. I'd be someone else.
If I lost everything except the notion that I kinda love this stuff? Yeah, I'm sure I would.
Do I go back to 1998 or do I start over now? It's becoming more obvious to me that the closer you can warp back to about 1950 for these start-over fantasies, the better a time you're going to have. I would be in a full panic if I had to start over right now, a fresh 22 year old undergrad with a 2018 degree in software. Yikes. Maybe that's just a me-getting-old thing peeking through. I sure hope it is. And am worried it's not, for younger folks on here.
- peatmoss 8y agoI was an undergraduate journalism major. If learning about people and the world is your want, then you’d be hard pressed to beat journalism. That said, I fell back on my computing hobby even before I graduated. When I started college, print journalism still seemed like a plausible career. By the time I graduated, I saw the writing on the wall. As long as we’re talking what-ifs, I’d take the well paid journalist job in a heartbeat.