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Do something amazing on your nights and weekends. If you're a recent grad, then you probably should revel in the whole reliable-paycheck thing for a while, but

Do something amazing on your nights and weekends. If you're a recent grad, then you probably should revel in the whole reliable-paycheck thing for a while, but it doesn't stop you from innovating and pursuing what you're passionate about on the nights and weekends. I personally have never looked to work to satisfy my passion (for computers). No matter the job I am working at, I have a steady stream of side projects and try my hardest to keep up with a small bit of the massive firehose of change that is modern computer science/programming. Don't worry about being average. Many of the people who have created great things weren't that far from average. They just seem like geniuses in retrospect. Also, it's about 5 billion times (give or take) easier to do software these days, you have a huge leg up on geniuses of the past. Find a project to do that makes you happy, and do it until it doesn't make you happy anymore (hopefully, after it's finished)

maccam912 12y ago
Yay. I sort of do that. Take things that people like, make them into docker containers, get bored, and move on to the next thing that people like. For anyone reading this, github.com/maccam912 projects are all available to be played with. Obviously forked, but if you want to submit a pull request I'll more than likely accept it. I'm one of those average people who has a lot to learn about programming. Your pull requests will educate me a bit.
- hardwaresofton 12y ago
  That's pretty much it. If you love docker/devops, then this is the kind of thing that makes you happy, and definitely makes all the people that find it happy (unfortunately, you're probably just not seeing/aware of all the people that find your products and think "wow, someone awesome must have made this"). If you like docker, then you can also contribute to it, extend it, all that stuff. Personally I like to keep a notebook of ideas I have, and then find time to go through them all and implement them. That is keeping me more busy than I could ever imagine (or finish)

maccam912 12y ago

Yay. I sort of do that. Take things that people like, make them into docker containers, get bored, and move on to the next thing that people like. For anyone reading this, github.com/maccam912 projects are all available to be played with. Obviously forked, but if you want to submit a pull request I'll more than likely accept it. I'm one of those average people who has a lot to learn about programming. Your pull requests will educate me a bit.

hardwaresofton 12y ago
That's pretty much it. If you love docker/devops, then this is the kind of thing that makes you happy, and definitely makes all the people that find it happy (unfortunately, you're probably just not seeing/aware of all the people that find your products and think "wow, someone awesome must have made this"). If you like docker, then you can also contribute to it, extend it, all that stuff. Personally I like to keep a notebook of ideas I have, and then find time to go through them all and implement them. That is keeping me more busy than I could ever imagine (or finish)