<div dir="ltr">A couple weeks ago I asked about IEEE and ACM membership. Having spent the time reading the notes and going over benefits and such the main decision seems to be "join several but especially the IEEE" to get the discount for the CSDA/CSDP learning stuff. <br clear="all">
<div><div><br></div><div>I'd like to take my career towards systems programming. Or so I think at the moment. Since my programming skills don't qualify me for much I'm working on those. Given my poor showing so far in the Coursera courses I'm not sure school speed learning is for me. <br>
<br></div><div>My work life has covered 8-10 successful career changes, more than that in job changes, and another half dozen or so experiments that didn't quite work out. <br><br></div><div>Since I'm searching for data to base my decisions on I may ping you for thoughts on programming as a career. If you do or have done a lot of programming and are an encouraging sort, please hit me off-line. If anyone wants my career change methodology let me know. It make make a useful blog post if I can keep people awake.<br>
</div><div><br><br></div><div>-- <br><div><a href="http://leamhall.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Mind on a Mission</a></div>
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