Personal computing discussed
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just brew it! wrote:Or if someone knows some investors who'd be willing to front the money for me to open my own brewpub, I'd consider that too!
Looking for Knowledge wrote:I'm in my 40s, have advanced degrees, am half-way through a 30 year carreer, and still don't know what I want to be when I grow up.
paulWTAMU wrote:I actually think Ned's job sounds sort of interesting, in a hair pullingly frustrating way. Rules and regulations have always interested me in a strange perverse way.
iDenTiTy wrote:Lessons I learnt:
1) If you going to do something, do it properly. First time.
iDenTiTy wrote:2) NEVER pass up an opportunity. It may lead to greener pastures.
iDenTiTy wrote:3) Make use of the resources available to 'stretch' your capabilities.
4) Trust/Know that you are more than you think you are.
5) There's very few feelings that can compete with the feeling of accomplishment...
thegleek wrote:iDenTiTy wrote:Lessons I learnt:
1) If you going to do something, do it properly. First time.
Not true. At all. A quote from Samuel Beckett states, ‘Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.’
derFunkenstein wrote:As for me, I drank myself right out of college. I knew a guy who did support for a student data management tracking package. Because I knew him and he said something nice about me, I got a job there, too. A few years later I acted in ways that totally burned the bridge with that guy, though I still work with student data management packages. I spent the first 26 years of my life being a huge turd towards everyone - my wife, my friends, people I didn't even know. When I hit the bottom of being a huge turd (I dunno, early 2007?), I decided I didn't want to be a huge turd to people anymore and worked very hard to put other people ahead of myself. I'm still a huge turd, but now I'm a huge turd who tries not to be. And more importantly, I *recognize* that I'm a huge turd and that's my nature that I have to fight. In my heyday as King of Turd Mountain I didn't even know what I was doing to people. I credit my wife for verbally smacking me straight, though at the time I was a huge turd to her denying that I'd been a huge turd to her. Even this fall I stumbled; I was a huge turd towards a guy who works very hard and it messed up my friendship with him. We've reconciled but it won't be like it was before that event. I just never learn.
pikaporeon wrote:I did decently in highschool [famously being 0.2 percent away from an A average =\]
I started university for philosophy and promptly failed two courses which has put me on the brink of suspension ever since.
Last year I assumed i was going to be suspended and started technical college (its a diploma-granting institute here in Ontario) for computer programming. I'll be done that in December. GPA is currently sitting around 3.6 so im not droppin the ball here
However I never actually got suspended so now im trying to slowly change my major to Computer Science at university. I'm fine on the programming front but im terrified of the math involved for the theoretical sides of the degree.
If I do get suspended im likely to transfer to York (another nearby school) or go to Athebasca (online) and actually get a job with my college diploma
Captain Ned wrote:Did you have a spy cam on me?
Your first sentence speaks volumes to me and, like you, it took a wife who saw the part of me I could not see to smack me out of my turd.