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"My brain bridges the gap that our culture has between highly technical people (developers) and those who need to understand the outcomes and requirements (ever

"My brain bridges the gap that our culture has between highly technical people (developers) and those who need to understand the outcomes and requirements (everyone else)" I am kinda like you. Actually I am like you except that I am a little older (32). I majored in CS but for some reason, never enjoyed programming while in college as much as I enjoy it now. Weird but true. And I don't even do hardcore programming in my corporate job anywhere. On the side though, I have started doing a lot of programming. In my corporate job, I am defined as a "Technical Business Analyst", "Technical Project Manager" etc. Basically, I am not a developer and I am not a business user. I am somewhere in the middle. You could potentially look at that as an option. You get to do some techie stuff like writing SQL queries, VBA, scripting etc as needed but more importantly, you focus on getting the business requirements translated/developed into the final solution and you work your way through the entire process. You are involved in the entire life cycle phase. "I am 25 and I feel fucked" Don't feel that. You are not f'cked. You will get wiser with age and realize that there is no silver bullet to anything. Everything is a choice and there is always a cost to every opportunity. What matters is that you grab the opportunity that interests you and create something out of it.

cajueira 13y ago
+1, I'm with you on this :) I'm also like OP and you: partly creative, party technical (but very broad, I'm not a hardcore developer with a speciality) and do have business and social skills too. So I'm at the end of my 20's and working as a Technical Project Manager... which I enjoy so far.
- nikhilalmeida 13y ago
  I was pretty much like the OP (from Georgia Tech too), although I graduated with a masters in CS, so I had that to back me up at interviews. I hated programming as I worked at companies large and small writing code in java (mainly tweaking spring configs) and have spent the last few years trying out for different product management positions with no luck. I realized that I did not like it much, was because I was fighting the system every time as I did not have the basics right. (I barely could get myself round a linux box). I have since made it my priority to get my fundamentals right and started reading the basics of everything as if I was getting into programming from scratch. I feel it has helped. Also it happened that my current job required me to learn to code in python. Ever since I started working in python coding has been very pleasurable and fun. Also the ability to quickly have an impact and be useful gives me the thrill rather than just writing a bunch of integration tests. Anyways Im not sure why this is relevant, but felt like putting this out anyways.

cajueira 13y ago

+1, I'm with you on this :) I'm also like OP and you: partly creative, party technical (but very broad, I'm not a hardcore developer with a speciality) and do have business and social skills too. So I'm at the end of my 20's and working as a Technical Project Manager... which I enjoy so far.

nikhilalmeida 13y ago
I was pretty much like the OP (from Georgia Tech too), although I graduated with a masters in CS, so I had that to back me up at interviews. I hated programming as I worked at companies large and small writing code in java (mainly tweaking spring configs) and have spent the last few years trying out for different product management positions with no luck. I realized that I did not like it much, was because I was fighting the system every time as I did not have the basics right. (I barely could get myself round a linux box). I have since made it my priority to get my fundamentals right and started reading the basics of everything as if I was getting into programming from scratch. I feel it has helped. Also it happened that my current job required me to learn to code in python. Ever since I started working in python coding has been very pleasurable and fun. Also the ability to quickly have an impact and be useful gives me the thrill rather than just writing a bunch of integration tests. Anyways Im not sure why this is relevant, but felt like putting this out anyways.