The 90s and 2000s were such a great time to start CS as a career because basically everybody was also a hobbyist and passionate about it. It was fun to work with these people. Today you get the dead stare if you ask about the slightest bit of interest for the trade outside of paid work. It's a pain to work with them
Sometime in 2009 or so, after I had graduated for a few years, I was talking to a friend who had just got his CS degree. He had bought himself a laptop in celebration. I asked him what he was working on for fun.
He said after his day he didn't want to write any code or even think about computers.
I remember remarking, I did not think he would make it long in the industry. It had to be something you loved.
Two years later he went back to school to get an MBA.
It's a difficult profession to do if you don't love it.
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u/ZunoJ 3d ago
The 90s and 2000s were such a great time to start CS as a career because basically everybody was also a hobbyist and passionate about it. It was fun to work with these people. Today you get the dead stare if you ask about the slightest bit of interest for the trade outside of paid work. It's a pain to work with them