Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Photo school or what?
From: Rei Shinozuka <shino@ubspw.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 08:22:00 -0500 (EST)

i can't say that photography is a viable career; there's a lot of evidence
that says it's on average a tough and poorly compensated way of ekeing out
a living.

but as someone with a comp sci background who has in the past worked in and
around IT organizations (no longer!) i do sympathize.  as an aggregate, IT
seems to attract some of the most bureaucratic, dull-minded, incompetent,
political, spread-sheet and pie-chart loving, goldbricking, backstabbing,
uncreative, disloyal, unthankful, riskfearing, parochial-minded, unvisionary,
micromanaging yet clueless crowd of lemmings for managers.  however, because
programming is one of the most creative, demanding, and rewarding endeavors,
there are pockets of good guys in good technology groups and companies out
there.  you just have to find them.  and 2002 might just be the year.

- -rei


> From: Tristan Tom <tristan@tristantom.com>
> 
> I'm 30, and hate my current career path. I work in the tech.support field
> and while it pays the bills, it sure steals some of my soul. My passion is
> photography and more and more it seems like that's all I want to be
> spending my time doing.
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