anyone want to be interviewed?

[falsepride]

should anyone on here have any kind of career that involves some kind of software engineering. would you like to be interviewed for this paper i have to do for school? if so you could just answer these questions(no long answers needed this class is a joke).

first off ill need some background information.
your name
where you work
and if you dont mind your email address

1. what made you choose your career?

2. what did you study for your career?

3. is your job difficult?

4. would you recommend your job to younger generations?

5. do you enjoy software engineering?

6. whats the best advice you could offer to someone persuing this career?

should anyone actually do this. if theres anything youd like to add be my guest. thanks to anyone who helps me out.

[DJMaze]

1. it's no career it's a hobby
2. Motormechanics
3. Never say difficult, it's a challenge or else you picked the wrong hobby
4. Yes but that totally depends on their attitude
5. yes i do
6. study and work hard outside school, school is no proper education you only learn basics from many languages while programming in one language is way to much more.
If you find a school that properly educates in single languages then go there fast.

My email address? No way, i'm already to long on this world to put somewhere in public.

[redhead]

There is no such thing as a class is a joke, either you are in this class to embrace some sort of knowledge, which is importain to you, or you're there to just get the final 5 points to pass this semester. Go through life with the intention to give it your best in everything you desire, and you'll find life will turn out more proffitable/endurable than you'd imagine.

For background info, check the Introduction to C/C++ aswell as the Introduction thread.

1. The reason I chose this "career"...
   As long as I can remember I've had a passion for technology aswell as math. Back in the day, when I finished highschool, I was recruited as the system administrator for the county I was living in at the time, and as a natural step I had to explore the world this introduced me to.
   Not because my career demanded it of me, I couldn't care less how my life would turn out at the time, but more to satisfy my hunger for knowledge in the field.
2. I belive the Introduction thread has this well covered.
3. Like I said, engage everything with a passion an willingly give it yoru best, then theres no such thing as "difficult, like DjM said, it's a challenge, and if you dont approach it with enthusiasm, you might as well never start it, because you'd end up lowering your skills to the lowest denominator, which dosn't serve you or the challenge right.
4. I would recomend they start out young, you are more willing to changes and embrace knowhow when you're young, but as a starters possition I wouldn't recomend my daily job, you'd might end up killing yourself in the stress level.
5. Like earlier stated, I couldn't care less how my life turns out, I enjoy what I do, when I'm done enjoying it, I'll move on. I have seem people reeducate themselves at the age of 62, mind you, that beeing taking on an atleast 5 year education, so It dosn't scare me if at some point I have to turn my life around.
6. I belive I made that clear the times I've said, approach it with "Go through life with the intention to give it your best in everything you desire"

I dont see what an email address can bring to this, I have atleast 11, none of which shows any association with what I do in my professional life, so what good should a single one do??
For further elaboration, either this thread or a PM would suffice.

[falsepride]

no the class really is a joke because the teacher is. he has no curriculum of his own, he just borrows from other classes. the calss is called principles of engineering. currently were doing work in it that belongs to another class called CIM(computer integrated manufacturing), which revovles around building machines with fisher technics. you build things and program them with using this program called robo pro. instead of teaching us how to use robo pro. the teacher asked who has cim. divided us into groups and told every group to have one cim kid to do all the work. all the while he just sits and mass producers miniature grandfather clocks and knows nothing about how to use robo pro or anything else in that class.

for the most part kids just take the lab tops and play games on them in the class. trust me. the class is a joke.

[redhead]

Let me break what you just said there into pieces which contrardicts your joke assumption...

he has no curriculum of his own, he just borrows from other classes.

Most things in life depends on gathering pieces from here and there to help you complete what you have at hand. Most people at the age of 17 would say they couldn't care less of calculus, since they can't imagine how importain it can be later on, same thing with algebra.. Yet when you see your average carpenter he'll be instructive to note, if he needs to find a 90 degree angle, he'll just make one side 3", one 4" and the combining must be 5" else the angle wont be 90 degrees.
Now if you ask him if he knows why this is the case, most likely he wont stumble on a definition by Pythagoras, but these sort of magical numbers have made their way into his line of work eventho he dosn't think of it as math.

instead of teaching us how to use robo pro. the teacher asked who has cim. divided us into groups and told every group to have one cim kid to do all the work.

In some way, learning to work in groups and cooperate in solving a problem is just about the most mportain thing, you can't go through life without some interaction from others, without further development from other peoples work. It's all abuot learning to work together towards a common goal, each supplementing with their strength within the field.
What if the time it takes to learn CIM will require 2 month of dedication, yet your curricullum only allows 14 days to get a feel for it ? How would you solve that time issue ? Would you make sure each and every student would be propperly introduced to CIM, and know that they probably only learned the very basics of it, or would you find a solution, where atleast you'd know the student would get the feel of actualy take on a task of solving a problem through CIM.. ?


Perhaps his way of handling things isn't so clear to you, but you can never write it off as beeing a joke. You have to look at it as a whole, some aspects of it might be sucky, but at some point, bits and pieces will be of use to you and at that point you'll be satisfied with taking the class.

[falsepride]

i will never be satisfied with this class. this whole year only 2 times did he ever stand up and teach and i slept because he doenst know what hes talking about. when sketching an object if the front side and top veiws aren't defined then the side view is always the longest. i know this because my 4th block teacher taught us and he actually knows what hes talking about because thats what he specializes in. but of course my joke teacher felt the need to argue with me when i clearly told him he was wrong.

i do agree that group work is good sometimes. but to make one kid do all the work is him just being lazy because he doenst want to teach. and noone does class work in there because no one takes this man seriously. so i was stuck trying to build and program something unfamiliar. i managed to do the first lab but the second program was far too complicated for me to do within his time contraints. and everytime i asked him for help on programing. key word programming hed come over and ask me if i had all the wires on the machine i built connected.

or when he finally decided to give some help one time. i asked him for programming help and it got through his head that i didnt need help putting a male into a female connector. he finally showed me a husky binder on how to program these things. and yet he still fell short because he says here read this page. and what i asked him about was 10 pages later in it.

i dont think youd ever really understand how much of a waste of life this class is unless you experienced it first hand.

oh sub script. there is suposed to be over lap in the engineering classes in my school. but he takes the work, the exact same thing and gives us that instead of expanding upon it like he was supposed to.