Those are the smart lads and ladies who CAN program but who also have social skills enabling them to help sell. They understand what the customer needs and wants, or better yet, can explain what it is that already exists that will do the job just fine.

Dammit. I moved to S. Korea because it had far less of the ignorant, science deniers than in America. Now the zombies are here, too.

"The reason you should not be reading your kindle, or have a laptop out during takeoff and landing, or any reasonably hard-edged, dense object is that it has the potential to become a projectile" LMFAO! What a f**king joke. By that lame reasoning, we should ban books, cups, magazines, glasses (vision, not optical) or anything else not nailed down.

BS. If that were true why don't the frickin terrorist bring down every plane in the world simply by turning on a phone/computer/tablet during takeoff or landing? And you know that people have them on anyway. Can't tell you how many people I've witnessed on planes use these devices (hiding them when a flight attendant is near) and, geewhiz, no planes have crashed because of it.

I'm still waiting for 5.3 on my hosting server and that's been out a good while. I don't guess I'll have to worry about 5.4 for another year or three

Teaching can be an adventure, too. Take a job teaching English overseas. Most only want a 4 year degree - any degree - as qualifications and the pay is decent, the food great...I've been teaching English in Korea for six years. I pay less than 5% tax and no US taxes. I make less than I did in the USA, but my take-home-pay and nearly tax-free status makes it very affordable. The cost of living is cheap enough in most places that I can save quite a bit of money

I'm the last dude to start spouting religion, but seriously, WWJD? Would he restrict access? Charge for it? You're a church for God's sake, or at least part of it. Why not make it wide open and invite anyone who wants to come, even if you get to spew out a little religious html their way?

OP Here. Management....been there, done that. Thanks, though. Management is not what I'm look for these days.

OP here....Tech Management...been there, done that, didn't like it. I want to get back in the creative side.

that's an awesome suggestion....dry erase code from interview questions.....

actually, having been a sales engineer, I can say I've seen both types - those are are glorified sales reps and those that actually engineer a solution when oob isn't enough.

I was working for a defense contractor in the 80s. We developed a missile that used an imaging infrared seeker in the nose for guidance. We did image manipulations that would know your socks off. We developed most of it using Vax systems and later, with a few Silicon Graphics boxes for simulations. Even in the 80s our gear was way better than what that video showed of the soviets. Bah!

My CS university didn't teach a single programming language. I'm happy about that. They taught concepts. Languages come and go. Techniques are more about how to get something done than oddities or quirk about particular languages. Learn the concepts of data structures, data access, communication and you'll be fine. Who knows what language will be important in a few years after you've graduated. When I was in school in the 80s, Basic, Pascal and C were around. FORTRAN was considered dead, but that has so far been proven to be wrong time and time again. Of course COBOL was around too, and I even learned some of that - but I'd never put it on a resume.