On Saturday 13 June 2009 16:07:42 Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: > Doctor? Architect? Lawyer? They require dedicating a serious chunk of your > life and are one-way streets.
not so. I am just back from interviewing over a hundred would-be programmers whose parents have dedicated a serious chunk of their cash to put them through and engineering degree. And now they are jobless and unemployable. It is also not true that Doctor? Architect? Lawyer? are one-way streets. I know an architect who is now an IT professional, and a lawyer who is on his way there. And several doctors who have done serious programming. If you really analyse things you will find that the people who embarrass us are almost invariably engineering or MCA graduates from the formal stream. The people from the informal stream - like aptech/NIIT graduates very rarely stray away from the tools they are taught. I find, in India anyway, the best programmers seem to be people who have _not_ formally studied programming. Even from engineering the EEE and ECE guys seem far more likely to go the self-learning path that we are looking at. Again there is a clear distinction between people who are taught and people who learn. Most of those who are taught expect to be taught their whole lives - and those who learn ... -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
