If you want to success with your career, pick the track which suit your strengths, not the one that sounds cooler. Software engineering and computer science are related but little bit different in career track. I dont understand why those who invested lot of their time in academic education to achieve higher computer science degrees such as master or Ph.D, and then suddenly wanted to work as a software engineer or programmer. Really? Do you really wanted to toss away decades of your time investment and your true strength? You werent trained to be an engineer or programmer, you know? You might needs to start everything from beginning. Why would you want that? You might say there is not much opportunity to be a acedemic researcher or computer scientist. There always is the opportunity, maybe you just cant wait for those opportunities to present in front of you by themselves, and maybe you needed to put some efforts in seeking them. The real problem is that you dont seem to see the difference and wrongly admire of those job of code monkeys. There is nothing to be ashame of being a reseacher or scientist or analyst or consultants. Even if you work in the industry, it should be you studying the industry, not you working for industry. So those who hold master degree or Ph.D in computer science, forget all those cool code monkey jobs and please be proud as a researcher and release some papers that shake the software industry, or maybe even the whole world. You can even get rich overnight if you can break through with a future defining algorithms or papers. Just wake up, will you? We needed more computer scientists and we needed you as a researcher in the industry. Cheers...
Posted on: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 05:02:25 +0000