oldr_n_wsr wrote:They may get me into software yet.
Don't let 'em take you without a fight!
Kicking and screeming all the way. Thankfully here they do understand that some people have one skill set and others have the other. While we all do work well together and sometimes overlap, expertise is expertise.
In that case, don't let them take you alive!
(My three brothers are all software engineers; I have seen what happens to their victims.)
Being a software 'engineer' means never having to learn any of the laws of nature or any real science. It is as non-sensical as calling a writer a 'language engineer'.
rubato wrote:Being a software 'engineer' means never having to learn any of the laws of nature or any real science. It is as non-sensical as calling a writer a 'language engineer'.
Technically, my sibs are "systems architects." And as I understand it, most of the cutting-edge work is going on in middleware these days (at least that's what they talk about alot). As for the "laws of nature or any real science," one of them designs advanced diagnostic technologies that are helping to keep doctors from killing their patients. Apparently, the worldwide medical community believes he knows enough "nature [and] real science" to make these gizmos effective, your opinion notwithstanding.
Big RR wrote:
As someone who is soon to be joining the ranks of the enemployed (due to a damn merger), I've looked into unemployment insurance and oldr is right, you have to make a reasonable effort to get a job in your field; the idea of forcing someone to take ANY job is both offensive and cruel.
Sorry to hear that mate, keep in touch keep us posted, keep your chin up.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
I've just got a couple more calls for jobs. Considering that I haven't updated my profile since a few weeks before I got this job must mean they're at least trough those who are activly searching and starting to look at those who may have stopped looking.
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
Just responding to yet another of your gratuitous and utterly vacuous swipes at my profession, about which you know essentially nothing. Stick to the simple sciences, rubato. The complexities of the law are far beyond you.
Reason is valuable only when it performs against the wordless physical background of the universe.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Andrew D wrote:Just responding to yet another of your gratuitous and utterly vacuous swipes at my profession, about which you know essentially nothing. Stick to the simple sciences, rubato. The complexities of the law are far beyond you.
We have already established that "the law" is a pseudo-profession which has regressed in its effect on society for 40 years. Higher cost and worse outcome. As opposed to the real professions which have all improved.
Pig-farmers have a record of improvement to be proud of. You are sand in the gears of society.
Andrew D wrote:Just responding to yet another of your gratuitous and utterly vacuous swipes at my profession, about which you know essentially nothing. Stick to the simple sciences, rubato. The complexities of the law are far beyond you.
We have already established that "the law" is a pseudo-profession which has regressed in its effect on society for 40 years.
"We" have "established" no such thing. You have repeatedly disgorged that exspuition from the unfathomable depths of your ignorance. But you'll change your mind when the drugs wear off. You always do.
Reason is valuable only when it performs against the wordless physical background of the universe.
