Just wanted to say thanks for everything, Rob. Been reading/. forever, it feels like, with this being the one site I've visited practically every day over the last 12 years or so. Best of luck, good sir.
I would just like to further emphasize this point. As someone in the position of hiring a number of CS students, I've found that most of them have difficulties communicating with folks who aren't of a CS background. They would benefit from a liberal arts education, being exposed to a wide variety of disciplines and schools of thought, and likely draw from it connections to other fields they might have assumed (a priori) didn't exist. In fact, the interdisciplinary opportunities for CS students with liberal arts training are myriad at present, and only look to increase in number.
Take social networking for example. There are not enough CS folks in this field who possess some training in sociology, psychology, or anthropology. This is one of the gripes I hear from researchers - that there are not enough CS students who understand these other fields, resulting in weak contributions or flat out screw ups.
Perhaps in no other field is the chance for interdisciplinary work more evident, and since there aren't enough multi-discipline CS students out there right now, I would recommend exploring the liberal arts option.
...that you haven't given us enough information to say whether or not your boss is actually unqualified to do *his* job. You didn't mention anything about his management or communication skills, so assuming those are right on, then this just sounds like typical griping. If he lacks the aforementioned skills, then I think he should seek success elsewhere.
Slashdot Mirror
Just wanted to say thanks for everything, Rob. Been reading /. forever, it feels like, with this being the one site I've visited practically every day over the last 12 years or so. Best of luck, good sir.
Colin
I would just like to further emphasize this point. As someone in the position of hiring a number of CS students, I've found that most of them have difficulties communicating with folks who aren't of a CS background. They would benefit from a liberal arts education, being exposed to a wide variety of disciplines and schools of thought, and likely draw from it connections to other fields they might have assumed (a priori) didn't exist. In fact, the interdisciplinary opportunities for CS students with liberal arts training are myriad at present, and only look to increase in number.
Take social networking for example. There are not enough CS folks in this field who possess some training in sociology, psychology, or anthropology. This is one of the gripes I hear from researchers - that there are not enough CS students who understand these other fields, resulting in weak contributions or flat out screw ups.
Perhaps in no other field is the chance for interdisciplinary work more evident, and since there aren't enough multi-discipline CS students out there right now, I would recommend exploring the liberal arts option.
...that you haven't given us enough information to say whether or not your boss is actually unqualified to do *his* job. You didn't mention anything about his management or communication skills, so assuming those are right on, then this just sounds like typical griping. If he lacks the aforementioned skills, then I think he should seek success elsewhere.