Oh well on that front
I used to teach CS at UCD. Night school. I mostly enjoyed it. I figured the best way to get a better coworker is to build one. It worked to some extent - I ended up hiring some of my better former students and was really pleased with the result.
BUT - at the moment I'm busy trying to get myself recommended for some work. The typists have taken over at the low end. I'm not willing to give away my profession. I'll gladly dig ditches for $5 an hour before I'll do enterprise IT for the $25 I'm being offered (for a lead/management gig no less).
Maybe it is time to get out.
Its not like anybody values my skills anyhow and I'm tired of living hand to mouth on month to month gigs. Think I can buy a house with these working arrangements? Doesn't look like it. Which means I can't sell the really expensive one I own and downsize either. I'm fucked.
Smalltalk is dangerous. It is a drug. My advice to you would be don't try it; it could ruin your life. Once you take the time to learn it (to REALLY learn it) you will see that there is nothing out there (yet) to touch it. Of course, like all drugs, how dangerous it is depends on your character. It may be that once you've got to this stage you'll find it difficult (if not impossible) to "go back" to other languages and, if you are forced to, you might become an embittered character constantly muttering ascerbic comments under your breath. Who knows, you may even have to quit the software industry altogether because nothing else lives up to your new expectations.
--AndyBower
Oh well on that front
I used to teach CS at UCD. Night school. I mostly enjoyed it. I figured the best way to get a better coworker is to build one. It worked to some extent - I ended up hiring some of my better former students and was really pleased with the result.
BUT - at the moment I'm busy trying to get myself recommended for some work. The typists have taken over at the low end. I'm not willing to give away my profession. I'll gladly dig ditches for $5 an hour before I'll do enterprise IT for the $25 I'm being offered (for a lead/management gig no less).
Maybe it is time to get out.
Its not like anybody values my skills anyhow and I'm tired of living hand to mouth on month to month gigs. Think I can buy a house with these working arrangements? Doesn't look like it. Which means I can't sell the really expensive one I own and downsize either. I'm fucked.
Smalltalk is dangerous. It is a drug. My advice to you would be don't try it; it could ruin your life. Once you take the time to learn it (to REALLY learn it) you will see that there is nothing out there (yet) to touch it. Of course, like all drugs, how dangerous it is depends on your character. It may be that once you've got to this stage you'll find it difficult (if not impossible) to "go back" to other languages and, if you are forced to, you might become an embittered character constantly muttering ascerbic comments under your breath. Who knows, you may even have to quit the software industry altogether because nothing else lives up to your new expectations.
--AndyBower
