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My first degree was anthropology, with an emphasis on human evolution. I was accepted to a masters program when things in my life changed and I finally realized
by cgh 4y ago
My first degree was anthropology, with an emphasis on human evolution. I was accepted to a masters program when things in my life changed and I finally realized the importance of money. So I returned to school and finished my almost-complete comp sci degree. Luckily I’ve loved programming since I was a little kid so it worked out well. After I’d worked for a while, I did exactly what you suggested and took a three month trip to check out various ancient sites that I’d studied in school.
- AlotOfReading 4y agoPretty similar story to my own, except that I never bothered with the comp sci degree. The compensation/funding story for archaeology was so bad that at one point I was essentially living in my car/tent. I thought hard about how much I wanted to endure next 5-7 years like that while I went through the academic hierarchy to get to a reasonable standard of living and decided tech was a much better alternative. Now I enjoy it from a safe distance as a tourist and vicariously through former colleague's stories.