From CEO to code intern

Skerminkel said:
I was actually keen to read the story, but the clickbaitiness of the subhead made me skip it out of principle.
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I don't know - I didn't find it too clickbaity. They explain that he was a CEO and that he became a coder and yes, they invite you to read the article to find out how but at least I know enough context around the story to decide if I want to read it.

What about suggesting a different subheading?
 
Almost sounds like the story that guy at the Three Sisters Ultra City spins when soliciting petrol money.
 
ebendl said:
I don't know - I didn't find it too clickbaity. They explain that he was a CEO and that he became a coder and yes, they invite you to read the article to find out how but at least I know enough context around the story to decide if I want to read it.

What about suggesting a different subheading?
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Not a coder, a code monkey.
Hopefully he didn't call coders monkeys. Seriously. I wish people would stop using that term.
 
Pixelbender said:
It's amazing that he took the jump and I respect him for it; but show us the people who do it without a cushion of serious dough.
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OK, I'll ask MyBroadband to write a story about my friend's dad. He was a pastor and made the jump to software developer a couple of years ago.

Let's be honest, unless they put some serious clickbait on it nobody will read it. The whole point is that the guy was a CEO (with supposed "riches" and influence) of a known company, and then decided he'd rather want to code.
 
Ruby on Rails is even worse than Java.

About the start-up vibe, yeah it's fun, but not again for me. Two months after joining my current company I was invited to join a team of devs that was taken offsite to work on a new product. The reason they were offsite was to not be bothered or bound by anything from HQ and to work under a start-up culture. It was literally the longest 10 months of my life, 60 hours a week was nothing strange and when you go home you remote in and keep on working. In retrospect it was awesome and everyone that was part of the team are happy for the opportunity to be part of something big, but working like a start-up does is no joke...
 
ebendl said:
OK, I'll ask MyBroadband to write a story about my friend's dad. He was a pastor and made the jump to software developer a couple of years ago.

Let's be honest, unless they put some serious clickbait on it nobody will read it. The whole point is that the guy was a CEO (with supposed "riches" and influence) of a known company, and then decided he'd rather want to code.
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This 'Starter League' is in Chicago as far as I can see.

What's a code monkey anyhow? Programming is a technical science that attracts graduates.
 
Rouxenator said:
Ruby on Rails is even worse than Java.
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Having moved over to Ruby this year I prefer it over C#. Did C# for over to 12 years, so over it. Maybe I'll go back to it, I keep up to date with the changes in it and do projects at home with it, for that purpose only.
 
I went the other way - started off coding and ended up CEO (not in a straight line though). I miss the coding though, it's much less stressful arriving in the morning with a coding task then some company crisis. The problem with startups is that in most cases (statistically) all of that startup energy turns to nothing.
 
How about some proper real-life scenarios without financial backing and security (all staff at BoB over the last 5 years):
- A legal advocate leaving his family law-firm and practising law behind to become a Linux admin and start from the bottom
- A snake handler becoming a Linux intern
- A game-ranger becoming a Java dev
- A librarian quitting his job, cashing out his pension, self-studying Linux by himself and now working as a Jnr Linux admin

It's always easy to follow your passion if money is not a concern and you can afford to not work for years.

FWIW - a Ruby on Rails course with Starter League costs upwards of USD 10,000 (excluding accommodation, flight, living expenses).
 
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All good and well except they went Linux. The only good thing that came from my Java course was that I took to .NET much quicker than long term MS devs that were still on VB.
 
Rouxenator said:
All good and well except they went Linux. The only good thing that came from my Java course was that I took to .NET much quicker than long term MS devs that were still on VB.
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Java and Ruby are both languages very much in decline (source: Tiobe Index), so there is hope for humanity.
 
elvis_presley said:
Java and Ruby are both languages very much in decline (source: Tiobe Index), so there is hope for humanity.
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If you look at the recent Stackoverflow survey, java is still going strong as a server language. I even think than .net was declining, but then again, the surveys had very small sample sizes.
 
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