How I left a 4 year career in finance and became a software engineer in 5 months
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Re: How I left a 4 year career in finance and became a software engineer in 5 months
#2>Once I realized that I enjoy staring at hundreds lines of code trying to figure out where the bug is
I agree it's fun at first, but once you do it for a few years on a daily basis, it gets old. I suppose most things in life are like this though. Maintaining enthusiasm about work is difficult, for me at least.
Re: How I left a 4 year career in finance and became a software engineer in 5 months
#3Just enough to be dangerous...
Re: How I left a 4 year career in finance and became a software engineer in 5 months
#4Congratulations on the new job. I'm sure that sitting in front of a computer all day like some kind of fleshy office appliance was getting really old - oh, wait.
Re: How I left a 4 year career in finance and became a software engineer in 5 months
#5Here in Canada, you need to write an exam in order to legally call yourself an "engineer" – it's a protected term.
Re: How I left a 4 year career in finance and became a software engineer in 5 months
#6My initial reaction to this was to pick it apart, but really, that would be stupid of me since it doesn't deserve it. There is value in the piece and it was a nice story. Congrats as well.
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#7Congratulations on the new job. I'm sure that sitting in front of a computer all day like some kind of fleshy office appliance was getting really old - oh, wait.
When your biggest complaint about your full-time employment is that you are too sedentary, you are in a much better place than millions of other people.
Re: How I left a 4 year career in finance and became a software engineer in 5 months
#8>Once I realized that I enjoy staring at hundreds lines of code trying to figure out where the bug is I agree it's fun at first, but once you do it for a few years on a daily basis, it gets old. I suppose most things in life are like this though. Maintaining enthusiasm about work is difficult, for me at least.
Enjoying the myriad little mysteries we call "bugs" is key to being a good programmer. Bugs that we create are opportunities to understand the system better - it's a signal that there is behavior we don't understand.
Re: How I left a 4 year career in finance and became a software engineer in 5 months
#9>Once I realized that I enjoy staring at hundreds lines of code trying to figure out where the bug is I agree it's fun at first, but once you do it for a few years on a daily basis, it gets old. I suppose most things in life are like this though. Maintaining enthusiasm about work is difficult, for me at least.
Enjoying the myriad little mysteries we call "bugs" is key to being a good programmer. Bugs that we create are opportunities to understand the system better - it's a signal that there is behavior we don't understand.
> Enjoying the myriad little mysteries we call "bugs" is key to being a good programmer.
I disagree. I hate bugs and I do everything I can to prevent them from ever occurring. To me I find it fun to get better and better at preventing bugs.
Re: How I left a 4 year career in finance and became a software engineer in 5 months
#10Here in Canada, you need to write an exam in order to legally call yourself an "engineer" – it's a protected term.
It's just an exam? What the hell did I do for 4 years to get an engineering degree?