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Just to follow up and explain... I'm at the end of my programming career (10 years, I've worked on high profile stuff, I'm done), having migrated away from prog
by dotBen 16y ago
Just to follow up and explain... I'm at the end of my programming career (10 years, I've worked on high profile stuff, I'm done), having migrated away from programming into product development and strategy.
Programming may be completely different in a decade's time but I won't be programming. My era is now and that was always the plan to concentrate on web.
I fully respect the "career programmer" may need to choose differently but for many of us working as an engineer/programmer is simply a step in the journey. To go back to the OP, that's probably why I didn't feel inclined to study CS at university.
- gjm11 16y agoOh. So, er, "I will always do web programming" actually meant "I'm not really going to be doing much of any sort of programming from now on". Fair enough, and that may well be a very wise career decision, but I don't think I can really be faulted for misunderstanding you.
- dotBen 16y agoNo, it means I will always do web programing. Lets say the next big thing in programming is GPU programming to compute massive volumes of data - I will still always do web programming. Lets say I continue to move into strategy, product development etc - I will still always do web programming. I just don't sit into one of the boxes perhaps you are trying to pigeon hole me into, maybe?