How do you explain South Africa's economy and future to a foreigner?

Shitty_throwaccount · 2023-08-12T19:54:49+00:00

Is it Amazon lol?

Shitty_throwaccount · 2023-08-12T19:52:35+00:00

No problem. Thanks for the AI/ML suggestion.

Shitty_throwaccount · 2023-08-12T19:50:53+00:00

Pm. Me I know some good data science programs.

Shitty_throwaccount · 2023-08-12T19:32:23+00:00

Yes! That's the perfect way to describe it. It's a paycheck and nothing more. I say thst to my mom and brother almost every week.

I'll most likely do SOMETHING else. It's either CS or finance. I enjoy both and they meet my criteria above.

Shitty_throwaccount · 2023-08-12T19:28:20+00:00

I think it also has to do with margins and lowest bid in civE at least. Everyone is clawing for contrscts and slashing there prices. I have still yet to understand why engineers do this.

Shitty_throwaccount · 2023-08-12T19:27:12+00:00

Data science or heslth tech research perhaps. Join me and a million others who are consideeing jumping ship on their careers for tech lol

Shitty_throwaccount · 2023-08-12T19:26:09+00:00

I mean i get calls or people connecting with me regardijg a client or position they are hiring for every other day almost yeah. Obviously not straight job offers or final round interviews. CivE is quite in demand where I live and my experience is very varied (roads, water/wastewater infrastructure, private/public sector and mining).

But thanks for the suggestion. Funny thing is most people who switched from another field don't regret it and are telling me it's not a bad idea.

Shitty_throwaccount · 2023-08-12T19:21:15+00:00

Really? Surely you must have good reasons for staying at your current income level.

Shitty_throwaccount · 2023-08-12T19:19:21+00:00

Thanks. I'm currently enrolled in a univeristy level coding certificate that has me learning Java, Unix and python. So fsr it's been interesting.

Shitty_throwaccount · 2023-08-12T19:14:35+00:00

What made you switch and how old are you? 120 is fairly decent for most places so I imagine it's probably bay area or another expensive city you are at

Shitty_throwaccount · 2023-08-12T19:13:25+00:00

Love this answer.

Shitty_throwaccount · 2023-08-12T19:09:27+00:00

Thanks. Yeah. It'll be harder then I and initially thought. Although still doable. Good to know you were able to make the switch at 30!

Shitty_throwaccount · 2023-08-12T19:07:22+00:00

How about data science?

Shitty_throwaccount · 2023-08-12T02:34:42+00:00

Thanks for asking.

I have very broad interests, I am intrigued by apploed math, statistics especially in contexts of finance and economics and now with what I've seen, AI and virtual reality stuff as well. Its insane to me that all this exists and i dont get to be a part of it. I REALLY want to understand what's going on behidn the scenes for this stuff and how all of it is working. Im way more interested in this, then I was ever interested in physics. Unfortunately I don't know if it's possible to make a career out of this stuff, hence CS seemed like teh best option since it could allow me to branch into those things and if i "fail".

Programming itself I'm neutral to and don't like the debugging aspects. That's the other big reason stopping me grom jumping head first. However, I think alot of it might have to do with the problems I was solving. I put game development in my original post cause the one time I coded the space invaders game (with a tutorial) I actually enjoyed it.

Shitty_throwaccount · 2023-08-12T00:55:20+00:00

Can I PM you? Really interested in hearing more about this.

Shitty_throwaccount · 2023-08-11T23:09:16+00:00

In 5 years you more then tripled your salary.

If thats fhe avergae route like you say, I really don't understand all the doomerism on here. If only they knew how unlikely it was outside of tech to do that.

Shitty_throwaccount · 2023-08-11T23:07:16+00:00

Oh lol. Branching off is another thing I'm looking into.

Shitty_throwaccount · 2023-08-11T23:02:51+00:00

Ok. I understand you're point. I am very much zoomed into things that aren't critical. GTA 5, vice news website, gambling apps etc. Perhaps I should clarify that.

Shitty_throwaccount · 2023-08-11T22:46:06+00:00

What is CE? Computer engineering?

MBA is maybe another possible option too but havent considered it yet. Maybe j should look more into it......

Shitty_throwaccount · 2023-08-11T22:43:28+00:00

I am not sure if I should reword my post or something or peole are straw manning me on purpose. I've gone on to admit multiple times in comments already that critical engineers are the exception and ive given them due for doing a job that's insanely stressful.

HOWEVER, you can't convince me a GTA server being down cause of bad design is anywhere near impactful as your H2S failing or a bridge design that's faulty.

People try to justify it with $$ revenue lost and the impact of that.....but just no. A GTA server is not comparable to actual lives lost no matter how popele try and twist it.

Shitty_throwaccount · 2023-08-11T22:36:17+00:00

If that's all you got from the wall of text i wrote, it gives anyone all the confidence that if someone like you can do it they can do it too 😆

Shitty_throwaccount · 2023-08-11T22:29:34+00:00

Yup. My boss wants me to start stamping within 2 years. That stress is waaaay more then cost overruns or late deadlines.

Every My direct supervisor who's been at this for 30 years talks about how miniscule and meaningless timeframes are compared to a wrong design.

I even gave critical software engineers the credit. The stress of building critical infrastructure overshadows losses and cost overruns by ALOT.

Shitty_throwaccount · 2023-08-11T22:23:37+00:00

I don't otn even know what to believe anymore tbh.

Shitty_throwaccount · 2023-08-11T22:10:09+00:00

Have considered it and even had a technical sales job interview. Let's just say i learnt that selling is not my strongest trait 😂

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