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Old 08-06-2008, 12:26 PM
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Try to read up journals about your field. Does it excite you or put you to sleep? Do you honestly feel that you _want_ to read because you're interested?
I've met a lot "vocational programmers" in IT--those who are in IT only to make a living and just learn the minimum necessary to get by. These are guys who, after 10 years of doing this, will start complaining constantly why they keep being overtaken and passed by younger programmers who have only half their experience.
They are the ones who, despite being close to 40, are only making as much or less than 25-yr old programmers because they don't have the drive/inclination/ability.
They are the ones who go everyday for kopi session for one hour to bitch together about how hard life is treating them and how unfair the world is, unfair, unfair, when they hear about 25-yr old making close to 100k p.a. as an IT dude.
They are the ones who think that just because they have done mediocre jobs for 10 years suddenly the world owe it to them to raise them above 20something programmers who can do it a lot better than they do.
Rant aside... what I'm saying is, if reading about dentistry or the latest developments in dentistry puts you to sleep, most probably you won't be a very good dentist. Gotta love this stuff to make it big. Don't be like those vocational programmers. Try to find out as much as you can first.
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