James_Miller comments on Open thread, 14-20 July 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: James_Miller 15 July 2014 04:03:52AM 5 points [-]

But I'm also concerned about how this bodes for my future career.

Then get a job where you will have a boss who keeps you on track by monitoring your short-term progress. For many people college is the only time when they have neither a parent nor boss who pushes them to succeed.

Comment author: solipsist 16 July 2014 01:30:30AM *  3 points [-]

Warning: such high-overhead jobs are often less well paid. And a lucrative and low stress path for you, programming, often has hard-to-measure short-term progress and are usually not closely monitored.

Comment author: eeuuah 19 July 2014 11:55:26PM 0 points [-]

If you work somewhere they do pair programming that can help with a lot of the issues though.

Comment author: sediment 15 July 2014 08:41:18AM 0 points [-]

This makes sense.