How about a word from one of the "Web Nazis."
I'm one of the lucky few that manages one of these oppressive machines, and well, unfortunately we need them.
I hear a lot of whining about folks not being able to surf what they want. When we check our logs, we see that they are trying to get to p0rn, ESPN.com or spend company time looking for other jobs. We have had several sexual harrasment suits as a result of people being caught surfing p0rn, and no company wants to deal with that mess.
Yes, I agree sometimes it does get in the way, but it's not that hard to open up sites as required.
After all you're at work to do that, work. Sure surfing makes lunch a little more enjoyable, but deal with it. This is an HR issue, take it up with them if you have a problem.
I agree with the ideas here. I experienced the same burnout when I was a chemistry major. But just to get out of school I switched to another major that I had enough credits in, English Lit.
All this time I was exploring my hobby of tweakin my PC at home. After I graduated I worked a few crap jobs, Management at Wal-Mart, remote repair of construction and packaging equipment, while going to school for my CS degree. Once I got the degree I was hired by company that let me experiment with what I wanted to do (VERY LUCKY).
I tried programming (not for me) tried sysadmin (not bad still do some) and networking (that where I am now and loving it).
But it's more than do you love what you're doing, it's also where you are. School is a grind, work can be a grind. And doing what you love in a place you hate, may be hard to distinguish from just hating what you are doing.
Anyway, my longwinded point, CS is just as complicated as medicine, you can't know it all. You tend to get a specialized focus, and there are many things to focus on. And mabey just try to finish up school and step away from CS for a while. If you find yourself being a 'hobby coder' mabey you should get back to it. Or if you're like me and end up building a network at home, just because, mabye look at the networking side.
Your degree doesn't lock you into the rest of your life. Now I understand that I have a job, and can say 'try new stuff,' but the real flexibilty isn't there with the market now, but get a job, and experiment with your hobbies, mabey you'll get lucky and have your hobby and your job be the same thing.
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How about a word from one of the "Web Nazis."
I'm one of the lucky few that manages one of these oppressive machines, and well, unfortunately we need them.
I hear a lot of whining about folks not being able to surf what they want. When we check our logs, we see that they are trying to get to p0rn, ESPN.com or spend company time looking for other jobs. We have had several sexual harrasment suits as a result of people being caught surfing p0rn, and no company wants to deal with that mess. Yes, I agree sometimes it does get in the way, but it's not that hard to open up sites as required.
After all you're at work to do that, work. Sure surfing makes lunch a little more enjoyable, but deal with it. This is an HR issue, take it up with them if you have a problem.
I agree with the ideas here. I experienced the same burnout when I was a chemistry major. But just to get out of school I switched to another major that I had enough credits in, English Lit.
All this time I was exploring my hobby of tweakin my PC at home. After I graduated I worked a few crap jobs, Management at Wal-Mart, remote repair of construction and packaging equipment, while going to school for my CS degree.
Once I got the degree I was hired by company that let me experiment with what I wanted to do (VERY LUCKY).
I tried programming (not for me) tried sysadmin (not bad still do some) and networking (that where I am now and loving it).
But it's more than do you love what you're doing, it's also where you are. School is a grind, work can be a grind. And doing what you love in a place you hate, may be hard to distinguish from just hating what you are doing.
Anyway, my longwinded point, CS is just as complicated as medicine, you can't know it all. You tend to get a specialized focus, and there are many things to focus on. And mabey just try to finish up school and step away from CS for a while.
If you find yourself being a 'hobby coder' mabey you should get back to it. Or if you're like me and end up building a network at home, just because, mabye look at the networking side.
Your degree doesn't lock you into the rest of your life. Now I understand that I have a job, and can say 'try new stuff,' but the real flexibilty isn't there with the market now, but get a job, and experiment with your hobbies, mabey you'll get lucky and have your hobby and your job be the same thing.