or writing software that makes the conveyer belt at a meat proccesing-plant runs as efficiently as possible. Those visions got worse and worse over the next six months… …so i dropped out
Seriously, most jobs are boring some of the time Once a wise man sayd "Do job You love, then You will never know what Job is".
ps. How to write corect "Sheet happens" is it correct ?
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Basically any job where you don''t have creative input is going to suck. Research wouldn''t be bad, provided you stuck it out long enough to score a job with some form of creative control.
However my suggestion to you is to get a degree in business. There''s nothing that says you can''t keep taking classes in whatever else strikes your fancy, but a business degree goes a long way towards the sense of freedom you seem to be looking for.
It seems most people compartmentalize their life, put on a new persona and head into the "coal mines" of work on a daily basis. They usually end up sleeping away an extra eight hours of the day and end up feeling somehow as if their life has passed them by in an instant. Unfortunately most people also seem to be under the impression that this is just the way of life and don''t bother looking for a better way.
It''s my opinion that most of this hardship stems from the desire for a sense of security. Security which I might add, doesn''t exist. Capitalism is the name of the game in our society; a business degree will teach you the rules.
quote:Original post by elis-cool Embedded systems! YAY! thats what I hope to do, I start my degree next year... should be 1337... maybe I can get a job programming tanks and such ^_^
Yup, Embedded Systems is a great career. I''ve been doing it for 4 years now since I graduated College, and I really enjoy it. You learn so much, and the experience is invaluable. You really get to the meat of computers and processors, etc writing firmware. Check it out.
One advantage to working in an area like databases (or some other area where speed is of major importance) is that you''ll probably learn how to write very efficient code, which could be a great benefit in your game programming hobby.
I know a guy who writes various SQL related stuff at his job, and he programs games as a hobby. I''ve had several email conversations with him about my programs, and it''s amazing the simple things he does to speed up my programs. I send him my source code, maybe an hour later I get a response. He changes like a dozen lines of code and the program runs 200% faster. Just little things you would overlook or just not think about usually, but his job is to think about those things.