Hi,
> >
> > it's the fact that to BECOME competant you often have to spend lots of
> > time not having a social life, and often neglecting such things as
> > friends, clothes, makeup, proms, classes... er... anyway, just
generally
> > being somewhat isolated and obsessive, which is not as acceptable for
> > girls as it is for guys. but that's not disdain for being competant,
> > itself, imho.
>
> good point. Tech changes rapidly and the people who stay on top (broad
> generalization here, standard exceptions apply...) are the ones that
> spend a large amount of time on geeky terch stuff, and who also enjoy it
> for the sake of doing it, not just as a job or such.
I think this is really true, but... isn't it true for anyone who has a
complex job requiring them to keep up on things and use their brain?
Aren't the people who are best at their jobs the ones who love their work?
>
> The truly exceptional coders are almost always the crazed looking geeks
> that are permantly attached to a machine of some type, and play with
> boxen well into the evening hours. Whether this is a good thing or not
> is up for debate, but its the majority that ive seen.. (again, there are
> always exceptions..)
>
> How this applies to other tech related jobs i dont know..
I think it does apply to network design and engineering as well. It's one
of the reasons I'm still single, probably.
Also, my boyfriend and I are having an interesting time adjusting our lives
to make time to spend together. (We are both definitely geeks.) The thing
is, we do find time to at least talk a little every day.
>
> I owe a lot of my start into tech with the fact that my father would
> teach me basic programming and database programming with DBaseIII around
> my 8-10 year old age.. (we also had logo on apple's in school.. but that
> wasnt programming IMHO.. ;)
Well... PCs didn't exist when I was eight or ten, but my Mom and Dad were
both really interested in the sciences and technology. I remember the
first moon landing (I was nine), and my parents encouraged us to stay up
way past our bed time, and as late as we could stay awake, to watch it.
Even when bedtime was eight, my Dad would let me stay up to watch his
favorite show, the original "Star Trek".
My Mom was a VP Finance for a multinational company in her first career,
and she embraced computers in the business way before most companies in
that field did. She and my Dad both encouraged my interest in computers
when they did become available to me in school, when I was around 12.
>
> Of course, if I hadnt gotten into computers until 15-16 there would
> definately be a difference...
Definitely!
>
> I am begining to think that feeling behind is a fundamental aspect of
> technology.. There is sooo much out there, that the more you learn, the
> more you see how much you dont know. Perhaps this is just my
> observation, but it seems that its not uncommon for even very gifted
> tech people to feel this way..
>
Again, definitely!
All the best,
Caity
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