And a little child shall lead them!
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A degree in computer science opens the doors to just about any career - but it will take some more studying. Myself, I turned down IBM full time for a summer job at Texas Instruments and graduate school. Winding paths led to DNA analysis and natural language processing. A big reason to pursue the PhD: the freedom to choose your next directions and pursue what you deem important.
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@Terry G "DNA Analysis and natural language processing." That's real world changing applications with that. Keep up the good work!
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The idea of Facebook is, and always was, fraught with complexities the young people who conceived it could not have imagined. While it's nice to believe everyone is good, the truth is there are bad actors in the real world and they will try to do good people harm. The deer-in-headlights look Mark Zuckerberg seems to have frozen on his face now suggests he's just realizing this, having enrolled billions of people in a scheme that delivers everyone's private information into the hands of crooks. These are typical problems of the young, but the difference now is young people created these new technologies and eschewed the lessons of the old. Edward Snowden thought he knew better than anyone else and took it upon himself to release information he'd promised not to release -- because the world shouldn't have secrets and everything should be transparent. Well, now we see why responsible governments have secrets and everything can't be transparent - there are bad people in the world, not just the nice intellectuals you know in Silicon Valley. I hope this is a lesson to the next generation, and some way can be found to make the Facebook concept work, but securely, to balance the needs of communication with those of safety and civil discourse. And of course, aside from Russian trolls. Facebook users have to be aware that Facebook slices and dices and sells your personal data to advertisers every day -- you are the product, not the customer.
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It is called the Golden Handcuffs. If one takes a job with such perks, it is hard to give them up once accustomed to that lifestyle. Speaking from experience here....
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@MomT
The trick is to live below your means. Don't scale up your lifestyle just because you can. Take the money, save it so if you want to leave you have both the means and mental aptitude to be able to.
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Wow, no comments!
I am now 67, when I was 20 I decided I didn't want to do the work I had trained for since Sputnik.
So I quit college and enjoyed my life.
Worked for me.
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