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> Do programming work get boring in a business-setting? Yes. One of the things you aren't going to hear too much on a site that promotes the start-up lifestyle

> Do programming work get boring in a business-setting? Yes. One of the things you aren't going to hear too much on a site that promotes the start-up lifestyle is that 80% of the work you are going to be doing is not intellectually interesting in any way. It is somewhat interesting from a "holy shit I can't believe life is really like this" perspective, but if you are into ideas that aren't just superfically interesting it can be a real drain. On the other hand, I did a year of grad school after working for four years and I couldn't believe how much it was like "The Office." Most people just surfed the internet, played fantasy sports games online, went to every journal-club/data-sharing/journal-data-sharing club event, and did the bare minimum of work to get by. I'm not sure what to tell you. If I had to do it all again, I would have gone to grad school straight out of college, finished version 1.0 of my product during the first year of graduate school, then dropped out and turned it into a business.

cowmoo 19y ago
Here's the kicker though: Grad school is by definition, professional training for academia, if you were more a hacker-type, would you be eventually forced into "publish or perish" thinking instead of building real world applications. And If you were to immerse yourself eventually in the hallow halls of the ivory tower, would you (meaning an average person) be able muster the courage (and I'm serious) to have enough faith in your ideas to become a grad school drop-out?
- rms 19y ago
  >Grad school is by definition, professional training for academia PhD programs are but a lot of master's programs are very expensive, high-end vocational training, like Master's in Software Engineering and other engineerings. It's a good way to pick up an engineering skillset when you had an undergraduate degree in something other than engineering.

cowmoo 19y ago

Here's the kicker though: Grad school is by definition, professional training for academia, if you were more a hacker-type, would you be eventually forced into "publish or perish" thinking instead of building real world applications. And If you were to immerse yourself eventually in the hallow halls of the ivory tower, would you (meaning an average person) be able muster the courage (and I'm serious) to have enough faith in your ideas to become a grad school drop-out?

rms 19y ago
>Grad school is by definition, professional training for academia PhD programs are but a lot of master's programs are very expensive, high-end vocational training, like Master's in Software Engineering and other engineerings. It's a good way to pick up an engineering skillset when you had an undergraduate degree in something other than engineering.