Help getting experience

[Logan Kennelly]

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On Thursday 20 June 2002 09:41 am, Tom Achtenberg wrote:
> I'm a little concerned that someone who wants to be a Software Engineer
> would say "even programming would work."  If you're looking at
> programming as a last resort type thing, than I doubt software engineer
> is what you really want to be.  That attitude probably comes across in
> interviews too.

Don't be too harsh.  I was in his situation not too long ago, and I had the 
same feeling.  I _love_ designing/implementing systems, but ASU doesn't 
exactly teach you how to do this.  After being around all the superstars in 
the free software community, it is easy to feel that you would simply fail 
at a programming position.  The key is to love what you do and work where 
you can ease into the position.

Of course, maybe he really doesn't like programming, in which case it will 
be awfully tough to get into systems design without being a "code monkey" 
first.

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						Logan Kennelly
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