Career Change Advice

[JBLoudG20]

In the university I studied electronic circuit design, mostly digital, but started to work for a major telco. After various jobs that more required someone with an education rather than a specific education, I decided to get into programing and spent a lot of spare time learning Java. And I was able to shift my job towards more and more programming. Now I do 100% programming and related tasks.

I was over 30 when I switched and for me this was the right thing . I had great fun during my Java learning time as I had a project on my own where I could try out various stuff in a meaningful context and I still like my job. In a way, writing code is a more or less a continuation of building lego. But as Grawk mentioned there is a lot of computer jobs that looks boring. So before you make a drastic move, be as sure as possible that you know what you want.

Btw. (computer) security is a field where I believe a lot of work will be done in the future and a field that will require a lot of various professions to work together.

Too bad java sucks

Posty, you should find a way to get paid for posting here. How about a post-a-thon?

[krrm]

Too bad java sucks

I wouldn't use the word suck, but there is some issues with java, no doubt. But java is, and this might indeed make it suck for some, mature and safe for corporate use, unlike some of the still stuff.

I currently work on a very small and simple web - db application, perfect for Rails I thought. In order not to upset the rest of the organisation, jruby would almost make it too perfect (as it produces javabyte code that can be run on a java application server). Was I able to set up the environment in a day (following a cookbook)? Nope. Could I have done it? I have great faith in myself for such things, so yes. Could the next one touching the code do that? No idea, and that was when it became the usual Spring application.

[JBLoudG20]

I have a hatred for java so im biased

Give me DMA dammit.

I program Forth and Assembler. Low level stuff for embeded applications.

[krrm]

DMA whats that , just kidding, I did quite a lot of assembler during my education. But frankly, I'm very glad I don't have to think about DMA in web applications otoh Java for real time embedded stuff might not be a very good idea.

[JBLoudG20]

DMA whats that , just kidding, I did quite a lot of assembler during my education. But frankly, I'm very glad I don't have to think about DMA in web applications otoh Java for real time embedded stuff might not be a very good idea.

Heh. Don't get me wrong, Java has its place: in the trash can.

Nah, its great for portability and web apps. I'm just not a fan of a high level paradigm. Yeah Real time with Java would be fun

Not that the VM would even fit in any of the e^2 on our chips.