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[snaildog]

I'm very happy in my day-to-day life (great girlfriend and mates etc), but I'm starting to get a bit worried about my future. I'm about 2.5 years through a 4-year Software Engineering degree and slowly starting to wonder whether this is for me.

I love programming in its purest form - logic and functions and algorithms and everything - but there's so much dicking around with objects and files and awkward compilers and repetitive coding. I suppose I had a bit of a naive view of it at the start. I think I'd love to get into management, which SE can definitely lead to, but otherwise I'm realising more and more that there's no way I want to be stuck in front of a monitor all day.

I feel like I've put too much time and money into this degree to make any drastic change, and I don't know what the drastic change would be anyway. On the other hand I've never intended to do the same thing for my whole life, but I'd probably want to at least stick to this field until my student loan's paid off.

If anyone here from the industry can share any relevant thought or advice that'd be awesome.

 

[ourumov]

Happy ? Well...this is kinda a joke...
After 6 months in a deep depression I think I begin to see the light...However, I am still far away from happy.

 

[fart]

I'm very happy in my day-to-day life (great girlfriend and mates etc), but I'm starting to get a bit worried about my future. I'm about 2.5 years through a 4-year Software Engineering degree and slowly starting to wonder whether this is for me.

I love programming in its purest form - logic and functions and algorithms and everything - but there's so much dicking around with objects and files and awkward compilers and repetitive coding. I suppose I had a bit of a naive view of it at the start. I think I'd love to get into management, which SE can definitely lead to, but otherwise I'm realising more and more that there's no way I want to be stuck in front of a monitor all day.

I feel like I've put too much time and money into this degree to make any drastic change, and I don't know what the drastic change would be anyway. On the other hand I've never intended to do the same thing for my whole life, but I'd probably want to at least stick to this field until my student loan's paid off.

If anyone here from the industry can share any relevant thought or advice that'd be awesome.

you know there's always theory...

 

[spliced]

No.

I have a bunch of shitty mental health problems which causes me to have low Self-esteem and lack confidence.

 

[Kenobi]

I can't say that I've experienced "complete" happiness in that everything is super. Either my love life is doing fantastic and then my work life is taking a nose dive, or my work life is great and love life sucks.

As of now, love life rules....but as for my job? Fuck them.

But I'm happy being this way, for now.

 

[Miguel]

There's this Livejournal community I'm a member of, and on it was a contest to take the best picture of a ferret outside that you could. I submitted this pic

and folks are actually voting for it. That makes me really happy, yes, though I probably won't win the contest..

Why the fuck did you take your Ferret to Best Buy? YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN A FRY'S PARKING LOT!



Anyway...I'm pretty happy at the moment. I have a few things to look forward to in the next few hours/days/weeks.

I still have a few things that piss me off from time to time, but it seems to be less frequent than usual.

*pops in brand new copy of Short Circuit on DVD*

NO DISASSEMBLE!

 

[FortNinety]

I finally have a decent apartment, I finally have an awesome gf, my career is going great, and I'm not always poor. So yeah, I'm probably happier now than ever before.

 

[haunts]

I have a great job, I have very interesting hobbies, I have lots of friends, women enjoy my company.. Genreally speaking, everything is grand in my life.

Yet, my happiness does not stem from these things. I have been in a position where I had none of this and was still just as happy as I am now.

I think most peoples happiness is conditioned by external things like having a good job, making lots of moeny, being around women, having new gadgets and toys etc etc..

I have found none of these bring me any sort of true happiness. If anything, these things are a trap. They make me feel good at first, but as time goes on I will find defects in everyting. Wether it be new gadgets or other human beings, the happiness I would try to extract from them is only temporary. The happiness that these things would once give me will turn into the opposite, which is either disgust or indeffrence for these things.

What makes me happy is actually seeing this day by day. Understanding how my mind grasps at physical pleasure and the concept of attaining "more". Once I realised I was complete when I was born, and I didnt need "more" to make me happy, life became a little easier to deal with happiness seeping from my every pore.

 

[Ninjas4Less]

There's always more down.