I'm a single guy and I have a hard time finding to time to study. There are a few reasons on why I can't find time to study.
1. I work out/exercise for about an hour, 5 times a week. When you add in the commute time and taking a quick shower after working out, it becomes and hour and a half.
I'd rather be in good shape than be a major fatass with some that knows a lot about programming. The fatass might make more than me, but I'll probably live longer than him.
Chics tend to like guys who take care of themselves and gyms have chics in them.
2. I'm also trying to find someone to date and potentially marry. I probably lose 3-8 hours a month doing activites(going to single events/orgs, bar hopping, and swinging by coffee shops) on trying to find someone to date.
3. I also have friends and family I like to see.
When I do study, I tend to read more tutorial/project type books. It is a personal preference. I hate reading about a concept and not seeing how it could be used. Wrox and Apress make some pretty good tutorial books. Right now I'm reading, "ASP.net 2.0 Web Programming Problem, Design, Solution" I'm learning how to do something and why to do it. I also tend to read the book faster.
I've started to go to some good user groups. They have suggested trying video learning. I've signed up for learnvisualstudio.net and I'm learing some good stuff there.
When I got out of school, I had some problems during the interview process. My shyness was hurting me in the interview process. The best way to break this problem is schedule as many interviews as possible. Schedule interviews with companies that you do not want to work for. The more interviews you do, the more comfortable you will become at them.
So, a financial manager in an insurance adjusting firm that works 80 hours a week and travels 25% of the time is somehow superior to a software developer who gets up at 6:30, drives to an office building across town, returns at 5:00 PM, where he begins to work on the side project that he hopes will lead to independence from the company job and into his own business?
The real problem is that these guys end up marrying some woman who has no serious career bundled with some passion for gaining an independent self-driven new career.
It has little to do with the career being "IT."
I have seen the same phenomenon among musicians and cabinet makers.
Marry a scientist. Someone who is genuinely driven by a legitimate research need. Then, instead of the scenario where one spouse is maybe working at some mindless job, unable to understand the other person with a job that drives a genuine passion, you have an equitable situation. One partner is trying to develop something seriously important in the IT world and gain economic freedom, and the other partner is trying to make a breakthrough in understanding the myolin sheath in order to end spinal paralysis. Just an example.
Marry someone who works part time in a bookstore, and you've got a very desperately bored spouse, with no schema by which to possibly understand how someone could have a career that one could actually be sincerely passionate about.
Could you come explain this to my friends? My friends will try to set me up with someone who is a cashier at Star Bucks, or is a sweet girl and works in the daycare, or someother low-level job. I've started to factor in what a person does when I am considering whether to date them or not. I don't factor in what they make. A school teacher is going to make less than a doctor.
During the time you dated and your marriage, she couldn't figure out that IT isn't a 9-5 job? I'll defend you dude. It sounds like your ex was an annoying needy bitch. She couldn't pick up that things don't always go 100% right and that you might have to put in some late hours?
How were you able to study up on stuff on your own with this chic around? Did she complain that you were reading a tech book and not doing some bullshit activity with her?
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This usually stems from knowing your girlfriend for all of a year or maybe a year and a half.
How long should you know someone till you get married? I think a year or a year and a half is plenty of time.
You think this kid should give up his free time to be an A student? I think it would be better for him to have a life, than be an A student.
BTW, there isn't anything wrong with going to a state college. There is nothing like going to a private university and carrying a huge debt in college loans.
I didn't study in H.S. and I was about a 2.0 something. I even had a few incidents in my high school file too.
Do you want to know something? I'm doing pretty good. I've been in IT now for almost 7 years and pulling down pretty damn good money. I'm doing better than a lot of the honor students in high school.
I ended up having to go to a junior college to help me out. I also had to take about semester of make up courses to get back on track. I learned more in that semester of college, than I did at high school. It is amazing how much you can learn from teachers who can actually fucking teach.
This article has some kind of bullshit agenda. These are probably the same idiots that think playing violent video games lead to people killing other people.
If a kid gets home at 4:00 and goes to be at 9:00, is he suppose to study the whole time? I think 30 minutes to and hour, is a good amount to study. If there is a project or a test, then more time should be put into studying. In my example a kid has 5 hours of free time. I think the kid should play outside for a bit or do something physical. That could be about and 1-2 hours. Then if you add in 1-2 hours of studying, then you would have 1-3 hours of free time left. I don't see how spending that time playing video games would be bad.
This has happened to me quiet a bit in my 5 year career. I'll get hired on and only learn and use A, B tech skills when companies are looking for A, B, C, D, E tech skills. I'll try to study C, D, E tech skills, but you are 100% right if you don't use them in everday work it is hard to remember them. That is the main reason why I've decided to do contract work instead of working for one company. I'm planning on working 3-6 month contracts for the next few years. Hopefully, this will give me a better and stronger skill set.
I don't understand why companies don't hire on someone and just train them. If I have a general understanding of C, D, E tech skills, why not hire them on and see if those skills could be strengthened.
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I'm a single guy and I have a hard time finding to time to study. There are a few reasons on why I can't find time to study. 1. I work out/exercise for about an hour, 5 times a week. When you add in the commute time and taking a quick shower after working out, it becomes and hour and a half. I'd rather be in good shape than be a major fatass with some that knows a lot about programming. The fatass might make more than me, but I'll probably live longer than him. Chics tend to like guys who take care of themselves and gyms have chics in them. 2. I'm also trying to find someone to date and potentially marry. I probably lose 3-8 hours a month doing activites(going to single events/orgs, bar hopping, and swinging by coffee shops) on trying to find someone to date. 3. I also have friends and family I like to see. When I do study, I tend to read more tutorial/project type books. It is a personal preference. I hate reading about a concept and not seeing how it could be used. Wrox and Apress make some pretty good tutorial books. Right now I'm reading, "ASP.net 2.0 Web Programming Problem, Design, Solution" I'm learning how to do something and why to do it. I also tend to read the book faster. I've started to go to some good user groups. They have suggested trying video learning. I've signed up for learnvisualstudio.net and I'm learing some good stuff there.
When I got out of school, I had some problems during the interview process. My shyness was hurting me in the interview process. The best way to break this problem is schedule as many interviews as possible. Schedule interviews with companies that you do not want to work for. The more interviews you do, the more comfortable you will become at them.
Could you come explain this to my friends? My friends will try to set me up with someone who is a cashier at Star Bucks, or is a sweet girl and works in the daycare, or someother low-level job. I've started to factor in what a person does when I am considering whether to date them or not. I don't factor in what they make. A school teacher is going to make less than a doctor.
During the time you dated and your marriage, she couldn't figure out that IT isn't a 9-5 job? I'll defend you dude. It sounds like your ex was an annoying needy bitch. She couldn't pick up that things don't always go 100% right and that you might have to put in some late hours? How were you able to study up on stuff on your own with this chic around? Did she complain that you were reading a tech book and not doing some bullshit activity with her?
How long should you know someone till you get married? I think a year or a year and a half is plenty of time.
You think this kid should give up his free time to be an A student? I think it would be better for him to have a life, than be an A student.
BTW, there isn't anything wrong with going to a state college. There is nothing like going to a private university and carrying a huge debt in college loans.
I didn't study in H.S. and I was about a 2.0 something. I even had a few incidents in my high school file too. Do you want to know something? I'm doing pretty good. I've been in IT now for almost 7 years and pulling down pretty damn good money. I'm doing better than a lot of the honor students in high school. I ended up having to go to a junior college to help me out. I also had to take about semester of make up courses to get back on track. I learned more in that semester of college, than I did at high school. It is amazing how much you can learn from teachers who can actually fucking teach. This article has some kind of bullshit agenda. These are probably the same idiots that think playing violent video games lead to people killing other people. If a kid gets home at 4:00 and goes to be at 9:00, is he suppose to study the whole time? I think 30 minutes to and hour, is a good amount to study. If there is a project or a test, then more time should be put into studying. In my example a kid has 5 hours of free time. I think the kid should play outside for a bit or do something physical. That could be about and 1-2 hours. Then if you add in 1-2 hours of studying, then you would have 1-3 hours of free time left. I don't see how spending that time playing video games would be bad.
This has happened to me quiet a bit in my 5 year career. I'll get hired on and only learn and use A, B tech skills when companies are looking for A, B, C, D, E tech skills. I'll try to study C, D, E tech skills, but you are 100% right if you don't use them in everday work it is hard to remember them. That is the main reason why I've decided to do contract work instead of working for one company. I'm planning on working 3-6 month contracts for the next few years. Hopefully, this will give me a better and stronger skill set. I don't understand why companies don't hire on someone and just train them. If I have a general understanding of C, D, E tech skills, why not hire them on and see if those skills could be strengthened.