I was in a similar situation. I came across 2 career paths that leveraged my CS background, my facility with spoken and written (human) language, and my positive, outgoing personality.
1) The path I chose was to become an R&D Tax specialist. Gov't gives tax incentives for qualifying R&D work. Claiming yourself can be hard, so you hire consultants like Deloitte & Touche (employer plug) to do it for you. That's where I come in. This is a dream job for me, because I get to stay current with a lot of cool technology coming out, I get the behind the scenes look at many tech companies, talk to smart people, discuss ideas, document them, and move on. There are also boutique firms that do this kind of work, but a large professional services firm is more likely to be interested in fully developing you, as is definitely the case with D&T.
2) The path I originally explored was becoming a patent agent. Similar in many respects to my chosen path, but I've found accountants much more laid back and open to work/life balance than lawyers. And this is a particularly poor choice karma-wise for the/. crowd.
Both are paths with good salaries and potential for upward mobility. Check it out.
This article seems almost to have been written solely to give credence to some design firm's idea of what a cool notebook computer should look like 10 years from now.
Because if you think about it, PDAs and smart cell phones are all the rage. Why? Form factor's a big reason, most bang per cubic centimetre. In ten years, wireless technology may well permit the handheld of tomorrow to be a simple network device that displays what is being served/executed from your home computer, or service provider, whichever you choose. It may well do a lot of its own processing but will be able to let the server simply push output to it. Such a device will have a small display for certain functions, but has the ability to redirect its incoming signal to a full-sized monitor (Jini, perhaps?), or accept input (still wirelessly) from a full-sized keyboard, or a picture of one on an ultra-huge desk display.
In fact, the computers of tomorrow may well mirror the answering machine in its evolution. It went from being a clunky beast, to a slick device, to a *service* from your phone company.
Only those doing serious computing will likely need their own secondary storage beyond cache, or require powerhouse computing. Once fat pipes are ubiquitous, services will surface to provide data storage and deliver it to you wirelessly in real-time. While the average person will be able to easily afford a unit powerful enough for their needs, most will want someone else to deal with the headaches, such as providing enough storage, backing it up, restoring it if the machine needs to be replaced. In ten years, these solutions will be in place.
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I was in a similar situation. I came across 2 career paths that leveraged my CS background, my facility with spoken and written (human) language, and my positive, outgoing personality.
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1) The path I chose was to become an R&D Tax specialist. Gov't gives tax incentives for qualifying R&D work. Claiming yourself can be hard, so you hire consultants like Deloitte & Touche (employer plug) to do it for you. That's where I come in. This is a dream job for me, because I get to stay current with a lot of cool technology coming out, I get the behind the scenes look at many tech companies, talk to smart people, discuss ideas, document them, and move on. There are also boutique firms that do this kind of work, but a large professional services firm is more likely to be interested in fully developing you, as is definitely the case with D&T.
2) The path I originally explored was becoming a patent agent. Similar in many respects to my chosen path, but I've found accountants much more laid back and open to work/life balance than lawyers. And this is a particularly poor choice karma-wise for the
Both are paths with good salaries and potential for upward mobility. Check it out.
This article seems almost to have been written solely to give credence to some design firm's idea of what a cool notebook computer should look like 10 years from now. Because if you think about it, PDAs and smart cell phones are all the rage. Why? Form factor's a big reason, most bang per cubic centimetre. In ten years, wireless technology may well permit the handheld of tomorrow to be a simple network device that displays what is being served/executed from your home computer, or service provider, whichever you choose. It may well do a lot of its own processing but will be able to let the server simply push output to it. Such a device will have a small display for certain functions, but has the ability to redirect its incoming signal to a full-sized monitor (Jini, perhaps?), or accept input (still wirelessly) from a full-sized keyboard, or a picture of one on an ultra-huge desk display. In fact, the computers of tomorrow may well mirror the answering machine in its evolution. It went from being a clunky beast, to a slick device, to a *service* from your phone company. Only those doing serious computing will likely need their own secondary storage beyond cache, or require powerhouse computing. Once fat pipes are ubiquitous, services will surface to provide data storage and deliver it to you wirelessly in real-time. While the average person will be able to easily afford a unit powerful enough for their needs, most will want someone else to deal with the headaches, such as providing enough storage, backing it up, restoring it if the machine needs to be replaced. In ten years, these solutions will be in place.
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