>>14
Yes, of course, because there are
[b]SO[/b] many smart, hard working Software Engineers, amirite? So much high-quality in this industry.
Sorry, I forgot my sarcasm tags at home today...
Seriously though, I like the idea of SE because of the creativity it allows for. I'm actually smart enough to do the work and learn the material, which should be more than enough to be able to do good work once I actually get to *work* in the field rather than just doing my own little dinky projects at such an early stage in my career. I learn about things like shell scripting and the like to make my life easier for specific purposes though, sure.
Just because I don't spend all of my free time hobbled up in a room writing code doesn't mean I'm automatically out of the Software Engineering field. Sorry if I actually have a life to go along with my profession.
>>15
how C++ relates to a gas pump? Srry, i don't get it... -_-
Yes, I do go to one of the Universities of our great 50 states, but the one I go to has enough prestige to make it worth it (compared to a crappy state college or what have you), and the curriculum is better than many private schools. Regardless of what else they do and offer, they teach C for all of the core classes (except for C++ for one class to teach OO crap, which is reasonable at least considering it's something we'll all come across at some point eventually), which means a lot.
My uni is one of the 100 best, and with the education the provide and the courses i will get to learn from in their curriculum, I believe I should have the base to do really anything I'd want to do in the field. I won't be stuck in one crappy area with low skill that has a high probability of being outsourced (protip: it's the low-skill low-creativity jobs that are being outsourced. If you are smart and have an actual education to back you up, you job WON'T GET FUQIN OUTSOURCED).
The real question is, what? What opportunities do I have, and what's good?