http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2007/03/08/im-in-the-right-field/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:39:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2007/03/08/im-in-the-right-field/comment-page-1/#comment-415 Cyde Weys Fri, 09 Mar 2007 22:05:23 +0000 http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/index.php/2007/03/08/im-in-the-right-field/#comment-415 Ouch ... Japanese? That's not quite as marketable as computer science. Hrrmmm. Do you remember the advice you got from your adviser that caused you to drop computer science? Were it me, I probably would've double-majored in computer science and Japanese. It's easy to pair those two together as they require totally different skills, so you can go from working on one to working on the other and not burn out versus, say, trying to double major in astronomy and physics, which are largely the same kinds of things. Ouch … Japanese? That’s not quite as marketable as computer science. Hrrmmm. Do you remember the advice you got from your adviser that caused you to drop computer science? Were it me, I probably would’ve double-majored in computer science and Japanese. It’s easy to pair those two together as they require totally different skills, so you can go from working on one to working on the other and not burn out versus, say, trying to double major in astronomy and physics, which are largely the same kinds of things.

]]> http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2007/03/08/im-in-the-right-field/comment-page-1/#comment-413 Will Fri, 09 Mar 2007 20:05:38 +0000 http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/index.php/2007/03/08/im-in-the-right-field/#comment-413 Damn, I should have stuck with computer science. Due to bad advice from my school-assigned advisor, I switched my major to Japanese. Damn, I should have stuck with computer science. Due to bad advice from my school-assigned advisor, I switched my major to Japanese.

]]> http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2007/03/08/im-in-the-right-field/comment-page-1/#comment-407 Grokmoo Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:55:24 +0000 http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/index.php/2007/03/08/im-in-the-right-field/#comment-407 What you fail to realize is that all the Philosophy and English majors don't even have to go to the career fair, because they all have huge lines of company recruiters following them around begging to give them a job. What you fail to realize is that all the Philosophy and English majors don’t even have to go to the career fair, because they all have huge lines of company recruiters following them around begging to give them a job.

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