Let's start with little bit about me, what do i want from life? I want to prosper. Since most of our lives we are spending on the job it means the i want a job that allows me to prosper. Biggest factor in here is the team, you can prosper MUCH faster in a competent team. I was *this* close to having it. From what i've seen i would work with two hackers how their stuff and a boss who:
- can communicate properly
- knows what ain't of his business
- is proper marketing person
- stays real
- is enthusiastic
Perfect right? Wrong. I don't have a fucking piece of paper which tells people i can hack. Lemme repeat that, i can't get what i value the most because of a PIECE OF PAPER? It must be pretty damn relevant piece of paper right? Wrong.
My university attempted to teach me about the
infinite potential well, now find a SINGLE use case in the professional life of a hacker where he needs that? How about an use case for knowing internals of
doppler effect? Than there was math, lots of math (almost half a year of pure math). Some of it was arguably useful, but i bet an average programmer needs like 5% of that, at best. Our C programming professor used to spend more time drawing colors on his screen than explaining us things. Not to mention that some things he was explaining us were just wrong. That is just the first year (the only year i took). I've seen a LOT of theory people from later years didn't understand but knew at the day of exam, and perhaps few days later but forgotten by the end of the week. Again why is this methodology useful? I'm not saying that ALL content sucked, just MOST of it.
OK, so the content sucks, what about people? Well, most students i've met in university were lost and didn't really know what would they like to do. At that point most were IMHO unemployable. But you go to university to become employable, right? How come you than have people in last years who can't type a fucking "ls" in the linux command line? Or who can't understand the most basic networking principles after long explanations? I've met my ex schoolmate on some IT event (he was in the senior year), so i asked him "what would you like to do"? Surprise surprise, his answer was "I don't know". I'm not saying that ALL people there are incompetent, there are a guy and girl i used to hang with who IMHO have quite bright future in front of them. They are just an exception tho.
To think that i lost something i care about due to a system with way more holes than swiss cheese just.... hurts :'(
