I've been programming for some extent for 20 years. I am thinking this morning about the skills I want to have--language, photography, music--and realizing that they're all "humanities."
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Learning is a lifelong process and I'm happy to have positioned myself where I *can* do that. (Actually going forth and doing that is another thing entirely.) I wish I discovered this a decade ago. Or I wish that culturally this was more of a prominent thing.
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Or maybe it is, and the tech industry has corrupted it to the point where all that learning time has to be techtechtech? And there's an element to the extraction of free labor here, too. I can sign up for a photography class by paying money, or I can go to a Ruby meetup for free.
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Problem with that is they then become the jobs and not the passion. Some of the sheer joy is lost the closer you get to being professional. Used to love to draw. Became a graphic designer. Haven’t created anything since. It’s dead to me now :-(
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It's never too late and it is part of the culture for certain folks.
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