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On Sun, 9 Feb 2025, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 08/02/2025 19:50, rbowman wrote:
>> On Sat, 08 Feb 2025 18:17:45 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>> 
>>> My university computer science courses left me quite disillusioned.
>>> Between my second and third years I managed to land a summer job
>>> programming in a small shop in the real world.  For my third year I
>>> arranged my schedule so that I had Thursdays off, and continued to work
>>> at my part-time programming job.  There was no fourth year -
>>> I dropped out and went full-time, and have been programming ever since.
>> 
>> My 'formal' computer education consisted of a FORTRAN IV course in '65. I
>> wasn't impressed. It took about ten years and an industry shift from
>> hardware controls to software to pique my interest.
>> 
>> A shot at graduate school was similar. It didn't take long to realize the
>> curricula had no bearing on what I was doing or ever wanted to do.
>> 
> Yeah. They wanted me to do a PhD. But I was no fan of the academic life.
>

I often thought about perhaps returning for a Ph.D. in philosophy, but 
then my political incorrectness pops up, my energy and hankering for 
results and the pragmatic, and I realize that I'd probably abort the 
attempt after a year in frustration.

Then I think, what if I finance it and pay for it myself?

And then I think that perhaps there are better things to do with my life. 
;)

Some days I think about going back to study psychology, and other days I 
think about getting a law degree for the pleasure of suing the state when 
I can, but I can do that without a law degree, so why bother?