Thread:Pecoes/@comment-4674838-20121105085352/@comment-4674838-20121124025358

IRL I'm a temp assistant director for a learning/tutoring center at a community college (and I have worked other part time jobs as necessary). Out of college, rather than working in academia, what I wanted to do was go into computer engineering. Spent a good portion of this last year applying for various engineering jobs, mainly for android development.

It's very difficult to get firms to take your application seriously without industry experience or the computer science or computer engineering bachelor's degree though. My degree is bachelor's in mathematics, which doesn't look as good on a resume, despite the fact that I have equivalent critical thinking skills and computer science as a major area of study.

So yeah, still at the part in life where I'm trying to figure out the career thing. If I have to go back to school, get a master's, and go into teaching, then that's the end of it. The irony is that, despite the fact I'd both enjoy and be good at it, it's not what I want to do. I want to get out of academia and write software for a living. It's just very difficult to get your foot in the door.

That's the frustrating part of life for me.? It doesn't seem to matter how smart or hard working you are, it matters what degree you have written on a piece of paper, what the economy is like, and who your contacts are. Wikia is a fun distraction from... all of that.