Where's the exit
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I was really banking on the swine flu outbreak to thin the ranks of the elderly inheritance holders - just my luck that it's cured with 7up and chicken soup.
The sad thing is...your kids might be thinking the same thing :doh:
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That's not hard... I'm only 28, and those under-25-year-olds ARE children.
The younger you are the bigger the age difference between you and other people appears. This phenomenon begins to wane as you approach thirty. Close to forty, the only age differences are statutory. :suss:
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Yeah, that's what they told me a couple of years ago when I wanted to get a teaching credential in California. It might be different in other states, I don't know. The lady told me that CS is not an acceptable major and that I would need something like English or math, and then my minor could be CS which would then allow me to teach CS. I joked with the lady and said that since I was from England, I could probably teach English pretty easily. She just kinda looked at me and said "I don't think the language department would appreciate that". :laugh: You might want to check into it in more detail just to be sure, but that meeting pretty much ruled out teaching for me too. No way I'm going back to school for 2 years now.
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Miszou wrote:
"I don't think the language department would appreciate that".
Them don't got no smarts.
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I’ve been browsing the CP forum for a while now and consider you all a thoughtful and intelligent bunch, so I would appreciate your opinions. I have been in the software business for 25 years now and have been involved in every aspect of software. I have coded plenty (started with UCSD Pascal and now do Java). I have managed large programming teams, been a project manager for high pressure consultant firms (during the .COM years), worked as a self employed contractor, was a partial owner of a successful startup, and now do development for laboratory Robotic systems. It all sounds great, but the truth is, I’m burned out. I’m currently under-employed at a mismanaged, thoroughly dull company and I want out of this game. I considered all my career options (short of retirement) and what I would really like to do is teach computer programming to high school kids. Only problem.. the pay stinks. There is no way that I could support my family on the $30,000 a year that a high school teacher makes. Any ideas?
you'd make more than $30K : CS Teachers Association[^]
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Jupitersoft wrote:
Any ideas?
Open a sandwich shop. Everyone loves sandwiches. Make the sandwiches as salty as you can get away with. Sell over-priced iced tea. Eh, that's all i got.
Shhhhh... That's my secret retirement plan. It worked for Arthur Dent until he took a ride on a Perfectly Normal Beast, and I expect it will work out for me. But not if you spread it around too much; I don't need the competition!
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote:
Then can you wait until they're weaned independent...?
Does that ever happen? Even after collage?
My parents haven't helped me financially since I was 26 during the last recession. How long do you have to wait? :D
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I’ve been browsing the CP forum for a while now and consider you all a thoughtful and intelligent bunch, so I would appreciate your opinions. I have been in the software business for 25 years now and have been involved in every aspect of software. I have coded plenty (started with UCSD Pascal and now do Java). I have managed large programming teams, been a project manager for high pressure consultant firms (during the .COM years), worked as a self employed contractor, was a partial owner of a successful startup, and now do development for laboratory Robotic systems. It all sounds great, but the truth is, I’m burned out. I’m currently under-employed at a mismanaged, thoroughly dull company and I want out of this game. I considered all my career options (short of retirement) and what I would really like to do is teach computer programming to high school kids. Only problem.. the pay stinks. There is no way that I could support my family on the $30,000 a year that a high school teacher makes. Any ideas?
Try University.
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My parents haven't helped me financially since I was 26 during the last recession. How long do you have to wait? :D
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Ten years at least :((
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote:
Then can you wait until they're weaned independent...?
Does that ever happen? Even after collage?
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The younger you are the bigger the age difference between you and other people appears. This phenomenon begins to wane as you approach thirty. Close to forty, the only age differences are statutory. :suss:
I've noticed. Now I'm in my mid thirties I find I have friends aged from early twenties through 60s.
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I’ve been browsing the CP forum for a while now and consider you all a thoughtful and intelligent bunch, so I would appreciate your opinions. I have been in the software business for 25 years now and have been involved in every aspect of software. I have coded plenty (started with UCSD Pascal and now do Java). I have managed large programming teams, been a project manager for high pressure consultant firms (during the .COM years), worked as a self employed contractor, was a partial owner of a successful startup, and now do development for laboratory Robotic systems. It all sounds great, but the truth is, I’m burned out. I’m currently under-employed at a mismanaged, thoroughly dull company and I want out of this game. I considered all my career options (short of retirement) and what I would really like to do is teach computer programming to high school kids. Only problem.. the pay stinks. There is no way that I could support my family on the $30,000 a year that a high school teacher makes. Any ideas?
Teach at the college level. It pays very well.
Todd Smith
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I've noticed. Now I'm in my mid thirties I find I have friends aged from early twenties through 60s.
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over 30?! time for a mid life crisis. ;P
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Jupitersoft wrote:
Any ideas?
Open a sandwich shop. Everyone loves sandwiches. Make the sandwiches as salty as you can get away with. Sell over-priced iced tea. Eh, that's all i got.
That doesn't work all that well out here... except for Subway. For some reason people keep trying to run a sandwich shop beside the Subway, 0 for 2 so far.
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That doesn't work all that well out here... except for Subway. For some reason people keep trying to run a sandwich shop beside the Subway, 0 for 2 so far.
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I’ve been browsing the CP forum for a while now and consider you all a thoughtful and intelligent bunch, so I would appreciate your opinions. I have been in the software business for 25 years now and have been involved in every aspect of software. I have coded plenty (started with UCSD Pascal and now do Java). I have managed large programming teams, been a project manager for high pressure consultant firms (during the .COM years), worked as a self employed contractor, was a partial owner of a successful startup, and now do development for laboratory Robotic systems. It all sounds great, but the truth is, I’m burned out. I’m currently under-employed at a mismanaged, thoroughly dull company and I want out of this game. I considered all my career options (short of retirement) and what I would really like to do is teach computer programming to high school kids. Only problem.. the pay stinks. There is no way that I could support my family on the $30,000 a year that a high school teacher makes. Any ideas?
Go back to school and become a Lawyer, they are always in demand, I hear ambulances often... :) How about making a decent video teaching course and selling it? Anything really good is usually so expensive..
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