Code Spammer's Paradise
235. Lifecycles
15th May 2009
Oh dear, I think I've ventured into xkcd ( www.xkcd.com ) territory with this one, but with software engineering instead of maths and a lack of alt-text...
This came out of a somewhat long-winded discussion between me and Rohan ( http://rohanmitchell.com/ ) this afternoon about strategies to finding what you can do in your life that you enjoy, and that sort of life universe and everything philosophical questioning. I could ramble on about it for a while but I'll see if Rohan posts up something on his blog first before yabbering on about it here.
One thing I'm curious about though is:
- how many people have gone through life so far knowing pretty much what they want to do in the future (eg: Always wanted to do a particular university degree and go into this sort of job etc) and have followed up on that;
- how many people have had a plan but have gotten diverted from it by something else they've found along the way that was really interesting; and
- how many people didn't really have a plan and have just sort of coasted through life so far?
I mostly fall into the last category since I didn't know I was going to do a PhD until three months beforehand (and after I had graduated from undergrad) and I only did software engineering rather than straight IT because I thought it'd be more challenging (it was) and I didn't decide to go into computing until halfway through year 11 or so.
Gah too damn deep and philosophical today :P
Woo weekend!
- Luke
This came out of a somewhat long-winded discussion between me and Rohan ( http://rohanmitchell.com/ ) this afternoon about strategies to finding what you can do in your life that you enjoy, and that sort of life universe and everything philosophical questioning. I could ramble on about it for a while but I'll see if Rohan posts up something on his blog first before yabbering on about it here.
One thing I'm curious about though is:
- how many people have gone through life so far knowing pretty much what they want to do in the future (eg: Always wanted to do a particular university degree and go into this sort of job etc) and have followed up on that;
- how many people have had a plan but have gotten diverted from it by something else they've found along the way that was really interesting; and
- how many people didn't really have a plan and have just sort of coasted through life so far?
I mostly fall into the last category since I didn't know I was going to do a PhD until three months beforehand (and after I had graduated from undergrad) and I only did software engineering rather than straight IT because I thought it'd be more challenging (it was) and I didn't decide to go into computing until halfway through year 11 or so.
Gah too damn deep and philosophical today :P
Woo weekend!
- Luke
I left UNI because I decided I didn't like Software Engineering any more now I'm doing a job that's not that different from what I expected to end up in anyway... grr.
I think it's pretty normal to have no freaking idea."