[ale] guess I am screwed, eh?

[Geoffrey]

Very well put Bao.... :)

Bao C. Ha wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 08:44:30PM -0400, Cade Thacker wrote:
> 
> Hi Cade,
> 
> Yes, you are screwed.  Your starting salary as BS in CS can only
> command a salary maybe twice of a business analyst or project
> manager, instead of three times or more.
> 
> You will be asked to do the impossible like solving NP-complete
> problems, while your business analyst or project manager 
> counterpart has no clue and just plunge all of the company's
> resources into a blackhole.
> 
> You will also be expecting to produce robust applications while
> your counterparts with a tech certification are having fun with
> deadlocks in threading.  Your boss may also expect you to use
> some types of development methodologies like extreme programming or
> design patterns for rapid prototyping, while your tech certified 
> friends are allowed to brute-force anything and are happy to 
> declare victory even if their applications break everything else.
> "Memory leaks?  It is easy, just reboot the server everyday."
> 
> And you will become bewildered and ask your business analyst and
> project manager friends why don't they do data modeling before
> making a multi-million dollar commitment.  "Well!  Dr. Ha did not
> really going into details at school, except he kept mumbling about 
> ERD, normalization, DK/NF, ..."
> 
> And you will also feel miserable and keep wondering why can't I be
> like Fastow, a good example what a business degree can do to one's
> fortune.
> 
> But, then I don't know what I am talking either, since my degrees
> are in Chemical Engineering.
> 
> Bao



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