I can remember coding I did from more than 10 years ago, but I can't remember to pick up milk when I go to the grocery store for diapers (or vice versa!). I suppose that' what 40 will do to you!
BTW - to chime in on the whole education thread - I have a BA degree in Religion which, as you can tell, perfectly qualifies me to be a ColdFusion developer. :) On top of that, I didn't earn my BA until I was 35 years old (of course, I started it when I was 28 - yeah, I know, 7 years...but hey, at least I finished it!). I have never been held back from my career because of a lack of a degree, let alone a technology degree, however, since I now have aspirations for management, I am working on a MS degree in CIS as it will help to get my resume in front of the right people for a management position in other companies. Although I would rather move up in my company, I just don't know what the prospects for that will be like in 3-5 years when I'm ready to move into management, so until then, I'll finish up this MS degree and then work on my MBA. Once I have MBA and MS in CIS, then I feel with my 20 years of IT experience that I will be perfectly qualified to jump into a management position. Dave -----Original Message----- From: s. isaac dealey [mailto:i...@turnkey.to] Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 3:18 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Education > I get you though...it strikes me as odd when others can't see the > patterns I do. For me I think it's due to my memory...it even scares > me sometimes....remembering line numbers or code above/below the code > you are remembering 5 years after writing it is just creepy. Now that's some memory! Mine isn't that good. I have a darned good memory for technical details, but it's typically selective. So I remember the formula for the volume of a cone, which I've never used, but I misremember the release schedule for versions of ColdFusion. ;) In my case in particular, my skills are fairly slanted toward the technical, meaning that my people skills are rusty. Just means I have to work harder at them, but at least now I know why and I've been able to find some books that I think are really helping me to shore up my challenge areas. Just finished reading Words that Work, Crucial Conversations, Influencer, Carol Dweck's Mindset and a few others this year. And boy let me tell you, there are things in there I wish I'd known when I presentated at cf.Objective a few years ago. :) > Well if this application development thing doesn't work out I can > always be a circus freak ;-) Maybe we missed our calling. ;) -- s. isaac dealey :: AutLabs Creating meaningful employment for people with Autism http://www.autlabs.com ph: 817.385.0301 http://onTap.riaforge.org/blog ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327649 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
