[ale] OT: what other than IT do geeks do for a living?

[Christopher Bergeron]

>I've been told that the Law School Entrance exam (LSAT
maybe?) is a heavily logic based test. 


Heh, my girlfriend and I were taking sample tests from the LSAT this weekend
for fun (and to help her study). Â It struck me that a lot of the questions
are _extremely_ LOGIC oriented and not just fact/formula memorization, etc...
 I've taken IQ tests that were easier for me than some of those questions.
 It's a pretty distressing test if you ask me.

Anyway, she's in Law School and studying for the LSAT, my Dad is a logistics
engineer at THE major defense contracting company, and my mother doesn't
work. Â My cousin went to The Citadel, and my other cousin is an Entrepreneur.

I tend to think you're going to find a strong correlation between one's geekiness
and their family / upbringing.

Just my 2 thoughts -
-CB



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  Dad's a geeky Civil Engineer 
  
  Uncle's a geeky Pilot 
  
  College roomate is a geeky Nuclear Physicist (really
geeky) 
  
  Several Others are in medical school. 
  
  I've been told that the Law School Entrance exam (LSAT
maybe?) is a heavily logic based test. 
 
 
 
 
  
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  -----Original Message----- 
  From: J.M. Taylor [mailto:jtaylor at onlinea.com]
   
  Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 11:02 AM 
  To: ale at ale.org 
  Subject: [ale] OT: what other than IT do geeks do for a
living? 
  
  ALE has gotten me thru many a crisis before, and I have
tremendous respect 
  for the variety of backgrounds and knowledge on this list.
So I'm 
  enlisting your help with a crisis of another kind -- what
on earth do I 
  want to be when I grow up? :) 
  
  Short history: I've been a *nix admin since I was 19,
and have programmed 
  since 22 (I'm not quite 30 at the moment).  All my friends,
acquaintances 
  and people I bothered to keep up with from school are in
IT. I know no 
  other world.  I never got my undergrad degree, which was
in English lit 
  anyhow so I figured why bother. 
  
  Now I'm starting back in school, and I've spent the last
4 years trying to 
  figure out what *other* than IT I could do (this isn't a
bad-economy 
  whim).  I've experienced a lot of the very-common-IT-jobs
world, and I 
  know that the things I enjoy aren't things I want to spend
my life doing 
  (network/sys admin, database admin, and security).  Seems
like the ideal 
  time to change careers and make my education fit a little
better. 
  
  My problem is, tho I know in general the broad categories
of careers that 
  are more or less geeky, I have no idea what people doing
those jobs 
  actually *do* in real life and what the general environment
is. So I've 
  absolutely no clue if I would really enjoy doing electrical
engineering, 
  for example.  I have a pretty good feel for my strengths
and weaknesses, 
  and what environments I do better in jobwise, so I'd like
to have a good 
  realistic view of what it's like to do other stuff before
I make the leap. 
  Â I've not really narrowed it down, I'm interested in just
about 
  everything. 
  
  So for anyone who isn't in IT, or is in a more specialized
branch of IT, 
  or who has changed careers, or has knowledge of the rest
of the world -- 
  what do you DO?  Do you like it?  Where are the majority
of jobs in your 
  experience (big companies? little companies? independent
consultancy 
  stuff?)?  All advice is appreciated. 
  
  I'm happy to keep this off list unless others are interested.
And I thank 
  you, as usual, in advance. 
  
  Jenn 
 
 
  
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