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People can work dead-end jobs a long time before getting "called up". I work in "real tech" these days, have gotten to write a book on a trendy technology, have
by jacques_chester 6y ago
People can work dead-end jobs a long time before getting "called up". I work in "real tech" these days, have gotten to write a book on a trendy technology, have had a hand in multi-billion dollar projects.
Before that I was writing PL/SQL in a remote tropical town for peanuts.
Before which I spent about a decade working a parade of jobs that varied from shitty to crappy in the same town.
It is a normal state of being for many folks that their life doesn't run directly from a fancy highschool to a fancy university to a fancy job.
- kortilla 6y agoThe question is about the transition, not the length of time before software programming.
- jacques_chester 6y agoI don't agree with your reading of the question. I feel like "rather large 10 year gap" is fixating in part on the length of time.
- kortilla 6y ago> glosses over the part where you went from installing internet to being a software engineer. It makes it sound like you just magically became a software engineer while road tripping around the country managing a friend's comedy tour. parent is wondering about the transition to software engineer, not saying that nothing happened for 10 years