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How to tell you ticked off a mathematician
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: Todd H on November 18, 2008, 11:00:13 am ---I know how you feel. I keep kicking myself for not getting a computer science degree. I'd love to go back to school and get one but with a wife, child, and mortgage that ain't happening.
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Heh... I'm in the same boat but have 3+ years of CS already done. I was too busy doing internships and grad program work early to actually finish and then RL intruded.
shardian:
Oh, and not to mention I make ALOT less than what I ever thought I would. Out of college I had a job waiting for me with the Corps of Engineers. Unfortunately, the Corps was pretty much gutted during the first few years of the Iraq war. They quit hiring, laid off new hires, begged people to retire early, etc. I had a co-op contract that they let me out of scott free. While it was nice to get over $10k in schooling paid for, I lost out on a high paying office job with minimal work.
ChadTower:
Man, when I think about how many unvested stock options I had in Cisco not long after I left school... if the crash had happened 18 months later I may not have ever had to work again. Right startup, right place, handed more stock options than salary, bought by Cisco... vesting schedule 8 months too late. By the time they vested it went from hundreds of thousands down to a few thousand that basically bought some furniture and paid some taxes.
ClubNinja:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on November 18, 2008, 10:46:37 am ---
I never knew any of us that would know Klingon. The Star Trek geeks were in EE.
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I experienced the opposite - the CS guys really were the Star Trek geeks. The EE crowd was surprisingly diverse.
ChadTower:
Notice that everyone wants to call the other guys the Star Trek geeks. ;D
Maybe a different set of years. Star Trek and Star Wars were pretty dormant when I was in college. The big thing in CS then was the release of Quake II. Half my class disappeared that semester.
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