Re: Re: Lesson learned
  By: Mark Hofmann to Arelor on Mon Jun 07 2021 08:40 am

 > 
 > A> I tried applying for a job at big IT because I wanted to learn from withi
 > A> the indutry, instead of
 > A> self-learning from second-hand books and by trying to hack solutions
 > A> together without any
 > A> assitence. Nowadays I don't think I would be living better had I gotten
 > A> the job.
 > 
 > That is exactly how I started.  Everyone learns differently, but I learn the
 > best by doing and hands on.
 > 
 > - Mark

My concern is that when you are the only guy doing IT in the house, you may
work for a decade doing horrible things, and since you have nobody to tell you
you are messing up, you never become a real IT guy. Just a dude deploying
services one after another until everything breaks :-)

This is why I had high hopes on that job back in the day.

I have been exposed to some well intentioned amateur code as of late, and the
first thing I thought from reading it was "Oh, the Horror!" As it turns out,
it was produced by self-learning people... and I always wonder which sort of
messups I am creating without me realizing.

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