20 years ago, I had no idea I'd be using my journalism degree and copy editor skills to the extent I do the past decade or so.
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20 years ago, I had no idea I'd be using my journalism degree and copy editor skills to the extent I do the past decade or so. I write so much more English than code nowadays, and I sure can tell the people I work with who have a liberal arts background vs the ones who do not (the latter group requires a lot more copy editing for grammar, spelling, usage, clarity, brevity, etc.)
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20 years ago, I had no idea I'd be using my journalism degree and copy editor skills to the extent I do the past decade or so. I write so much more English than code nowadays, and I sure can tell the people I work with who have a liberal arts background vs the ones who do not (the latter group requires a lot more copy editing for grammar, spelling, usage, clarity, brevity, etc.)
i was an english major in college and i've gotten far more use out of my writing skills than anything else i learned in college.
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i was an english major in college and i've gotten far more use out of my writing skills than anything else i learned in college.
@paul_ipv6 1000% this
(also almost ALL the sysadmins I knew when I got started were English, philosophy, or journalism majors.)
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@paul_ipv6 1000% this
(also almost ALL the sysadmins I knew when I got started were English, philosophy, or journalism majors.)
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i didn't finish my english degree. after an inglorious college career including 5 fulltime semesters as a sophomore, probation, etc. i came to the realization that if i continued, i was going to get a bachelor's in english lit, which had the following career paths:
- PhD in lit and professor
- law school
- asst manager at the mall shoe storei wound up enlisting in the air force with a guaranteed job in computers. this led to 4 years of C programming, UNIX sysadmin, and TCP/IP networking. much to the relief of my parents, that skill set paid better than asst manager at the shoe store.
but, the various english classes, philosophy, critical thinking, and history gave me the mental discipline to be able to untangle problems and design useful technical solutions. it gave me the skills to communicate clearly with all sorts of folks, including non-tech, such that i could be sure i understood their pain and how to lessen it.
technical degrees that don't include solid grounding in writing and verbal communication are not doing anyone any favors.
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@tbortels @paul_ipv6 YOU’RE NOT WRONG
