Comments on: File This Under “Geof Is Insane”

By: The Indiana Jones School of Management

The Indiana Jones School of Management — Tue, 24 May 2005 14:53:36 +0000

Goin’ to Straighten ‘em Out

I’ve got a meeting this afternoon to work on a training program with UAH’s SGA … again. Maybe this time, we’ll actually get this off the ground.
While I’m there, I’ll probably swing by the Registrar’s office…

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Mon, 23 May 2005 13:45:25 +0000

Well, teachers exist in many walks of life…

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 23 May 2005 13:39:03 +0000

Yeah… if only I was more comfortable in front of a group and could have accepted the pay scale of a teacher.

I’ll just have to do my share from where I am. And eventually get more comfortable with it.

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Mon, 23 May 2005 01:56:27 +0000

Well, we all see things early in our careers that would have served us well out in the workforce. For me, I wish I’d gone through with my switch to Industrial … although the pay at TBE for an AE degree is much better. [Silly, but true.]

This learning-so-as-to-teach seems to be a consistent theme with you, Mr. King. I think it serves you well.

By: Rick King

Rick King — Mon, 23 May 2005 00:48:09 +0000

“go and suggest that they do the same thing”

Heh… the more likely thing is that I need to learn it just well enough so that I can start teaching within my group. I’m already seen as the OOP expert in my group since I was actually exposed to it in school. I sure wish that I’d known I would be programming for a career back then. I always approached programming as something that I could do, but that I didn’t care to do to any great extent. That mindset has probably set me back at least a year or two in my overall development as a software developer.

But I’ve gotten way off topic there….

Enjoy your future time in school…. as for me and my house, we are finished for now.

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Sun, 22 May 2005 00:29:44 +0000

I don’t have the background for an MS in it, and the way that the second bachelor’s degree works is that you don’t have to take any of the GER [provided that you satisfied it all with the first degree], and that you only have to take the major and any required minor coursework. That puts me to only doing the CS core of classes, plus one math course to satisfy the mathematics minor I never got … and actually, the CS math minor varies from the engineering math minor, because my BSE required me to take DiffEQ, where that’s one of the three elective courses that satisfy the CS math minor requirement.

This would be for purely personal reasons, really; I wouldn’t be taking it to advance my TBE career, althought it might advance any careers past that point. It seems to me that a rigorous academic foundation would serve me well in such endeavors, better than just hobbyist stuff.

By: Puddin

Puddin — Sat, 21 May 2005 23:07:11 +0000

My reply would be, if you’re thinking about a second masters, just go do the masters degree.

But, I also agree with your boss. As your career progresses, you will be more likely to manage persons and other resources than you will be to write code.

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Sat, 21 May 2005 18:19:26 +0000

Heh … go and suggest that they do the same thing.

By: Rick King

Rick King — Sat, 21 May 2005 18:10:33 +0000

True… true.

I also have a bias since I’m basically a full time programmer working with a bunch of guys who are EEs who have learned to program on the job.

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Fri, 20 May 2005 20:48:48 +0000

Well, my boss and I have talked over my EM degree, and we both agree that my pursuit of it is the best thing I could do for my career right now.

This is something I could do after that, though …

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 20 May 2005 20:45:30 +0000

It would probably be as useful (or more) than a management masters. (imo)