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reject college. embrace apprenticeship (slrpnk.net)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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You can tell this is an ancient meme because it prices college at 4 years at $9,000 per year instead of 5 years at $30,000 per year 😆

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ha, I studied philosophy. It was perfect for becoming a bartender. But also perfect for becoming a successful software engineer out of the blue at 30.

Thank you for these expanded points. I only talked about the pregmatics and my own experience, but all of what you said is extremely important and true.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah, anyone can pick up a book and learn how to string code commands together. Not everyone who does so bothers to learn why they're doing it, or how to think through the implications of doing so. We see that over and over again in Silicon Valley today.

I imagine a philosophy background makes for well considered projects. I have a friend who was a developer in high school, who instead went into philosophy because he found his work absolutely soulless. No one he worked with wanted to think about what they were doing or why.