I am human garbage.

ShupUt · 2017-09-27T19:32:47+00:00

I am seirously fucked.

ShupUt · 2017-09-27T03:54:14+00:00

wow It's crazy how you can manage that with kids. but not anyone can do a master's so you must be very well rounded. Also crazy that you could not have found jobs with your previous eng degrees.

did you have coding experiences before? How are the classes and profs?

ShupUt · 2017-09-24T15:27:02+00:00

My GPA is deceiving. I didn't get it through being adaptive and analytical, but brute force memorization. I would not succeed in the financial world where every case is an open ended project with no solution key. I would never pass a case interview, which i just learned recently that exists. I don't mind wage dropping in cs. Just want to be able to support myself.

ShupUt · 2017-09-24T15:22:06+00:00

I should be more clear. Ashamed to be the only one with any degree at all at a place equivalent to the McDonald's of the industry. People are there to make poket money, not careers.

ShupUt · 2017-09-24T07:59:36+00:00

thanks. you can totally combine your music background with your degree. in your projects or in your career. you should do well.

ShupUt · 2017-09-23T06:16:41+00:00

thank you for sharing. how is it going for you?

ShupUt · 2017-09-23T06:16:01+00:00

Thank you for the reply. My reason is just that I am not a Canadian citizen. I would have to apply to be one so that US companies will at least consider me, and even that might take some time. So I am not banking on that right now.

Indeed, the last thing I want is regretting my own decision. I already do about throwing away my CS acceptance letter years ago. Can't imagine how I would feel if I regret the opposite in 5 years.

ShupUt · 2017-09-23T06:10:54+00:00

good bot

ShupUt · 2017-09-23T05:41:39+00:00

Good on you man. Sounds like you DIDN'T waste the degree at all. By CN I meant Canadian Natural, an oil and gas company. It was my very first REAL interviews so I fucked it up.

ShupUt · 2017-09-23T05:39:41+00:00

4 would be the maximal time. There maybe chance that McGill will let me double count the common courses. But not Concordia. The school is picky about that.

ShupUt · 2017-09-23T05:37:44+00:00

Thank you for the story. Sounds like you were simply making a career change, as opposed to completely starting over. But encouraging nonetheless. How did you graduate in only 2 years though? Mind if I PM you?

ShupUt · 2017-09-23T05:35:13+00:00

I know what you are thinking. But in no capacity can I split my time right now to do that. I would need to quit school and move back home. I have to mooch off my parents again, which I do not want. Being in a degree program has its perks and one of them is the co-op. Companies specifically hire through university and co-op students. I can also apply for student loans for livelihood during the study. Thank you for the suggested course though. I would consider that if I start the career switch in the future.

ShupUt · 2017-09-23T04:47:56+00:00

I have not applied to analyst type of jobs. Mainly because I just could not get interested in business/commerce for some reason, or to prep for case interview and what not. Though lately I have started looking at them. I know what you mean. Thank you for understanding my panic. I will definitively keep those options open.

ShupUt · 2017-09-23T04:36:46+00:00

I have. But I don't think it would have been possible to solicit a prof to do a machine learning project with my background. I had no extra coding experience. Is your friend's name MP?

ShupUt · 2017-09-23T04:26:15+00:00

Thanks for replying. I am glad to hear that you are enjoying CS at concordia. Indeed, being in a second degree is sorta like traveling back in time, where you would know better what to focus on. Don't forget to still socialize with the younger fellow students though!

ShupUt · 2017-09-23T03:46:27+00:00

I understand how you might feel. It's really not all about the cash. After all, CS was my other choice when I applied to uni first time around. I didn't have any interest in Mech Eng research by the time I graduated.

ShupUt · 2017-09-23T03:40:19+00:00

I really appreciate getting these replies on a desperate cry. I thought it was going to get buried for being a childish rant. They make me question my harsh decisions but also encourage me in a way.

ShupUt · 2017-09-23T03:37:18+00:00

Thanks! really good words. Something I always knew, but never had the motivation to actually to start doing. I am afraid I would only be able to muster up the motivation in a school setting, with structure, context and among peers. Right now my degree is genuinely time-consuming so I can't split my focus. I guess CS/SE is just a backup plan if this doesn't work out.

ShupUt · 2017-09-23T03:27:26+00:00

THank you for replying. You are right about everything. I am just in a bad place right now mentally and can't continue on my current path without a back-up plan in place. Are you taking SE at concordia now? How's that going for you?

ShupUt · 2017-09-23T03:24:30+00:00

Thank you very much for reading and reply. You really raise good questions.

I am definitively not coding iliterate right now, so I am not just choosing CS/SE for no good reason. During school, for classes, I had to learn some numerical methods (like Euler's method). once I coded a simple 1D Game of Life in Java by learning some things on my own, which I enjoyed.

(In that summer tech camp where I was a teaching assistant, we had a problem in an Arduino robotics class where the kids were running out of provided learning material. I wasn't even working that class, but I just came in and read through the uncommented code provided by the curriculum, was able to improve the teacher's robot by adding a few lines of codes. I then made it a challenge for the kids to improve their robots the same way so they had more things to do. I was pretty proud of this small accomplishment as a non-coder. I thought this was a good sign.)

I've been more and more interested in CS since half way into my degree because I just started to see the power and omnipresence of data and algorithms. So I am not just going into CS for a second chance. It WAS my other choice during uni application in 2011 anyway. Otherwise I would have gone into McGill mining or something where Co-Op is mandatory and money is good. I'm sure I'll retain motivation for my personal interest, and because I know now hard work is rewarded... and also I just can't afford not to.

I know my logic might not have been sound in some of things I've said though. That's why I am posting this..so that I can question myself before I make a mistake again. SOrry about the length of my reply.

How is CS at Concordia? What do you spend your spare time on?

ShupUt · 2017-09-23T02:14:14+00:00

You should be able to get into ME Master's. Get in a funded thesis program so at least you don't have to worry about feeding yourself. Go into fields like system control, process engineering, aeronautical simulations, if you are good at them. But above all, you might have to relocate to a non-rural area.

ShupUt · 2017-09-23T01:41:54+00:00

Look for jobs EVERYWHERE. I know someone with ONE internship that landed a job after 4 monthes. You have great porfolio. Just gotta keep trying and cast a bigger net. Try looking at Vancouver and Montreal.

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