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Want to add some footnotes, comments, or whatever you want to call them. 1. I wrote this about the program in general, not about co-op terms or internships. 2
by kapin 11y ago
Want to add some footnotes, comments, or whatever you want to call them.
1. I wrote this about the program in general, not about co-op terms or internships.
2. I used "curse" in the title because well, it fits in a writing sense (contrasts). Downsides, cons, whatever it is all the same.
3. I understand that real life is working 8 hour days, but at the same time it isn't surrounded by constantly moving and school.
4. Co-op is amazing. As I said I wouldn't trade it for anything, but you have no stability in life. When working full time you aren't moving your life every 4 months. Moving is hard enough as is.
Take my words as you want. This is my experience and how I've felt 4 years in and nothing more. Nothing in life comes without its warts and downsides (or curses if you may).
- rocky1138 11y agoI move often (once a year for the past three years). Once in Kitchener, twice in Waterloo. I'm moving on the first of May. I've been a professional software developer for 10 years now. Moving and never being stable in life is a reality for me. It does not get easier.
- peeters 11y agoI just added it up, and between starting SE at UW in 2005, and 2012 (when I moved to my current location) I'd lived in 13 different places. It's totally hectic and stressful at the time (on two occasions I didn't know where I'd be living in 6 days). But looking back on it makes me appreciate the stability I have now. It's like thinking back to the all-nighters we had to implement an OS. Stressful at the time, totally worth the experience now.