For what it's worth... my degrees in music and philosophy are the best investment of time and effort I ever made. I use the skills I learned whilst taking those courses *every* day in my job as a programmer and I also believe I'm a better person as a result.
My computing degree, on the other hand, is completely out of date and most of it was an exercise in passing exams so I could get my first job. If I'm ever hiring people and notice they have backgrounds in the arts and/or humanities along with evidence of autodidactic and competent coding skills via open source projects they usually get my immediate interest. :-) N. On 18/05/16 16:11, Andy Robinson wrote: > On 18 May 2016 at 15:52, Zeth <theol...@gmail.com> wrote: >> My degrees are in econometrics and theology, and I also somehow found >> myself making a living from writing code. I know theology is much more >> practical than philosophy but I am sure the same logic applies* > > There was a great Tim Ferriss podcast where he interviewed Alain de > Boton about what philosophy is and whether it's useful. From memory, > Alain said something like "If you can ONLY do it in a university and > there are no jobs in the outside world, that's a sign that your > profession has gone off the rails somewhere...". > > Although Google did recently hire a philosopher, I believe... > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk >
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