Comment on Optimal Employment Open Thread

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:21:08 GMT

You need something that you want to use. For instance, you want help calibrating your own judgements, but are disappointed by what predictionbook can do, and think that InTrade is too inflexible for you, and much to expensive/risky. Now, start. (That for instance would be a task for me, but after work I'm really not too much interested into programming anymore, and I know that I actually don't really care.)

You have to find something that motivates yourself, of course. Some people like math-puzzles, I despise them. If one shoot problems don't work for you, try something more day-to-day usable for yourself. Find something you want to do but don't because it is too much manual work, for instance.

But, as I wrote as a comment to your comment's parent, you should really reassess if learning on how to program pays back that much.

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