Can't Find Blissful HITS? 4/12 Supreme Sunday!

I just turned 31 myself and dropped out of both hs and college. When I was in my 20s I did what you did to ace the assessment each time I started school again to be placed in english 1a and calc 1. Why are you going back to school? You seem like a good fit to be learning a programming language instead, which is really valuable nowadays

 

That's too bad you let other peoples' insistence that you'd be bad at math affect your interest in math, but I can understand how that can happen. What are you studying?

I have thought many times about taking part in a sleep study, but it would have to be something that was free or a paid study as I don't make a lot of money and couldn't afford to actually pay a sleep lab (as from what I understand it's really expensive to be evaluated by a sleep lab).

I already have 2 years under my belt and I am poor enough to qualify for the Pell Grant so I figured if the government is going to pay for it, and I have the time to go part-time, I may as well work toward a degree.

I am actually studying computer science and am interested in programming and web development. I know some Python and will be taking a class in C++ this summer.

I know you can get programming jobs without a degree if you have the experience and can demonstrate proficiency, but a degree helps. Sometimes I think about networking as well. That is a valuable field right now, too.

 

Projected Earnings For Today $46.69

Not bad considering I took most of the day off and was drinking instead of working on two of the Smith batches, could have easily made 60.

@adam, that's what I'm gonna give a shot at. Once I'm doing alright enough with this to be able to take full days off, I'm gonna start fuckin around with programming and such. I'm prob gonna start small and learn AHK and how to make scripts like you or TJ (or ToT!!). It's pretty much what I went to college for before I dropped out, but I didn't take too much of life serious back then. I'm only 23 so I have the time to do it. Are you self-taught?

 

Companies don't really give a shit about degrees. At the last tech job I had (in operations, I wasn't proficient at coding yet) one of my coworkers was a nontechnical analyst. She went to some coding bootcamp for like 8 weeks, and my company promoted her to (jr.) software engineer just like that! You don't need a cs degree for all that, just goto a bootcamp it gives you hands-on experience. THey usually tell you to clone an entire service like twitter or something and you learn a lot in the process

 

My mom told me from a young age I'd be bad at math, so I guess I believed her. It's actually a societal problem, especially for girls. I'm a grad student studying to be a school psychologist. I'm graduating with a Masters in Education next month, but I still have two years until I get my final degree to practice (Ed.S).

Right, that's why I haven't done it. I think that's the only way they can verify narcolepsy though.

 

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Hmm, thanks for the info. Coding bootcamp, huh? I will definitely look into that.

I know you can get a coding job without a degree. My ex had no degree and was self-taught and after several years of working his way up on the job he ended up landing a job at a different company that paid six figures, just based on his ability and previous work samples.

 

Yeah my first language was BASIC on an Apple IIE, then I got into scripting when Mac OS 7.5 was current (using OneClick's EasyScript, a fork of Apple's AppleScript). I've only ever taken one programming class in my life (Intro to Java) and dropped out because it was so fucking boring.

Do you have an above-average IQ? Are you good at math? Don't fuck with ahk it won't really help out that much with the langauges you want to be learning (although it's really fun to write in)

 

What makes someone a good fit to learn a programming language? I've always been curious about that. I never really got too far into STEM stuff but I feel like programming might have some crossover with more traditionally "creative" fields.

 

That sounds like a rewarding field. Congratulations on being close to graduating.

And yeah, I think they can only verify narcolepsy with fancy, expensive sleep tests. Every once and a while I look out for free/paid studies but I've yet to find anything in my area. Maybe one day.

 

I only know Python so my experience is limited but if you're good at math and logical concepts you'd be a good fit. Programming is sort of an overlap between math and language concepts.

You also have to be attentive to detail. If you make a small typo the code will not run properly.

 

Well the OP was because he's in Calc II and Physics XD

A good fit I guess is someone who can solve problems (which you do all day in math/science), has good reasoning skills, and is just smart. People in advanced math classes have the right brain for it. That's why cs curriculums require advanced math classes even though it's not used in coding

 

I think a new thread was made oops

 

yup, I'll put this there