Yeah, we all go through it. I got a degree in economics and we used a program called SPSS developed by IBM to do regression analysis. No one in the industry uses it and it was very frustrating looking for a first job and no one was wanting the software I learned in university. But university isn’t about leaning to uses tool and apply it somewhere else, it’s about the underlying concepts and the people you get exposed to. I don’t use regression analysis in my job any more, but I’m much more prepared in doing numerical analysis than my co-workers who have traditional CS or marketing degrees.
>But university isn’t about leaning to uses tool and apply it somewhere else, it’s about the underlying concepts and the people you get exposed to.
You’re not wrong at all on the software side. With regards to the concepts though, we did a whole bunch of theory, but fairly often we did not do even the basics of applying it. I mean we literally did not do any, we did zero circuit/PCB design (the thing I’m trying to currently learn).
Outside of the dissertation no not really. Best we did was in the group projects where at most we attached a couple sensors and maybe a motor to an arduino.
*Technically I did a robotics degree but the difference between mine and the EE degree at my university was at the most 5 modules, roughly 60 out of 360 credits.
The replacement modules certainly were not in anything to do with design or fabrication either. No soldering, no CAD, no ECAD.
You could have got through the entire degree without having once picked up a soldering iron or built a circuit. As long as you were good at maths you would get through, nothing else meaningfully mattered, except the dissertation of course.
I feel like the problems airlines face when not running a hub-and-spoke model would be a good market for quantum computing? Could be totally wrong though. Lots and lots of variables and permutations and options to sift through.
I set up a form to send basic email info for wedding RSVPs for my wedding, no validation, and never got a single piece of spam. Granted it’s hosted in Cloudflare so don’t know if they blocked out all the hard work for me.
That’s plain false. For the last 10 years of my dads career he was remote full time because the technology was finally available. Your experience wasn’t universal and some people have grown up where it’s normal and expected for a parents office to be at home.
I’d disagree and tell you that you fall into a minority. I’m fully supportive of remote but to suggest it’s normal implies some majority, or close to. That’s not been the case.
“Some or all” in that article is really “at least 1 day a week”. I would offer that in 2024, people would not consider 1 day a week at home (or even 2-3 days a week) a “remote work” position. We call that hybrid work nowadays.
So while this article says remote work was increasing, and I am sure it was incrementally in certain tech, marketing, and sales positions, I don’t think its a good example of remote work (as it is defined today) becoming a norm then.
Pre-covid, I worked around 1 day a week remote, but was in the office the other 4 or traveling for work. I believe I knew maybe 2 people in my social and business circles back then that I would define as having a “remote work” job (by our present definition).
lol I remember that asshole. They fired almost the entire Denver based corporate office in 2018 to relocate to California because this guy didn’t want to move to Colorado.
Yep, though RTO was the straw that broke the camel’s back. I had had 3 direct managers in a year and a half, had projects sunsetted out from under me, and several reorgs. Add in a forced return to office and I was out of there.
I purchased a hybrid Carolla for 24k 2 months ago, with features. I think you’re exaggerating a little. It came default with lane centering and Apple auto. For 24k for a car that can al slot drive itself, I felt like it was a screaming deal compared to any electric or ice car I could buy lol.
I was there night one, and am going again tonight and can firmly say this was the most immersive and impressive concert experience of my life. The sense of presence of being in that building is amazing, and seeing “the world” react to completely live music (especially on copious amounts of drugs) is magical. I think that’s the part that is hard to convey outside of being there. It can really feel like the world is reacting to music, which makes all those inner music videos you think up while listening (well I do lol) feel possible.
A phish music streamer all owned and operated by me. Working a rewrite now with a few other side projects, but easily the one I can point to and say I use!
