Corporate software engineering killed my love for the field for a while. I did math for a bit, but always ended up coming back. I realized that the soul sucking (but well paying) job is a means to an end. I'd take half my salary to develop algorithms and play in compilers all day...but unfortunately there's all of 10 positions a year in compiler fields.
A lot of people tend to do stuff like gardening or woodworking and for many this stuff works. I tried it, but I always said "damn I could design something to do this for me" and I never "got" it. I couldn't finish graduate school because I have bills to pay and you don't get classes paid for unless you sell your soul to the university. They offered me an insulting $14,000/year to be a graduate student. I might've considered it for $35,000/year. So here I am, in purgatory, because I love computer science but my day job just wants me to throw together another CRUD app.
A lot of people tend to do stuff like gardening or woodworking and for many this stuff works. I tried it, but I always said "damn I could design something to do this for me" and I never "got" it. I couldn't finish graduate school because I have bills to pay and you don't get classes paid for unless you sell your soul to the university. They offered me an insulting $14,000/year to be a graduate student. I might've considered it for $35,000/year. So here I am, in purgatory, because I love computer science but my day job just wants me to throw together another CRUD app.