For real. I made the life mistake of getting a PhD but managed to turn it into an asset by doing fairly straightforward finance programming shit that scares people.
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jwelch55@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Just get a programming job
cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Rolando@lemmy.world 2 years ago
doing fairly straightforward finance programming shit that scares people.
The reason it’s straightforward to you and scary to others is because you have a PhD. Even if it’s not in finance, you gained abilities in reading documents, extracting useful information, integrating knowledge, teaching yourself skills, building tools, and generating reports. To most people, those are difficult things.
Liz@midwest.social 2 years ago
If only there was a way these people could teach themselves these skills, even without access to a doctorate program!
Rolando@lemmy.world 2 years ago
People absolutely can. It’s just a lot easier when you have guidance from an expert advisor, multiple peers to help you out, and an established pathway to focus several years of your life on doing so.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 2 years ago
Im an actuarie, so I can’t say that I have problem finding job, but I prefer programming and every task I’m assigned I spend all the time necessary to do it in python.
cypherix93@lemmy.world 2 years ago
and develop inferiority complex
muzzle@lemm.ee 2 years ago
That’s what I did, in the end. But in the mean while I got to study something I am passionate about.
genfood@feddit.de 2 years ago
Done, but I am simply just so much better than all the IT majors…
Watch my latest YT livestream where I coded a JavaScript interpreter just using Haskell and a french press : youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=B7D-gmfeBYIZNeVE
cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
There’s a typo in your code at 13:37 just FYI.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
Get a job programming video codecs. Then you get to feel superior and inferior at the same time. Also eternally frustrated by doing things that help everyone and no one, and that you can never finish. It’s the best of all worlds.