How do you go about this?

I'm a highly prospective good programmer (I lack experience hence the prospective). I just got my first job in the industry. God is it boring! How do you go about that?! I can't myself in the industry doing this every single day from 8 to 5.

I just realized the only programming I really love is that which I find challenging and I doubt the average business oriented solution which I take part in will be of any intellectual challenge what so ever. Do do challenge my nerves mind you!

So what am I to do? I wish perhaps to get into AI/robotics or something like that but I doubt I will ever have the chance. :(

I'm currently at code monkey level. Do senior programmers enjoy a different life?

nope

Congratulations, you've reached the _bottom rung of the l^adder.

>>1
Dont be a bitch, open a whorehouse.
If you dont have cash for hookers, then start with yourself.

Going from bottom to top is great experience.

You will have money, chicks, thugs, cars, alcohol, connections and power in no time if you do it right.

Dont wait, open a hotline, mail and spread some ADs, you can whore yourself out from home, the internet makes it possible.

Become a pimp, NOW!

JACKSON 5 GET!

>>1
Shouldn't have learned Java, should you?

Lucky 7 GET!~~

>>1
youve just discovered that you really do have to be a nerd to want to program

nerd being a person who is easily amused by getting 3 lines of code to optimize by 1 clock cycle

its a like a person who thinks that being a businessman is an exciting life, until they discover that they are not sitting at a boardroom table making billion dollar business deals but rather a bean counter cracking the whip over other bean counters at lower level management.

tldr: you wont last 6 months in IT

>>8
Good, less fingers in my pie.

>>9
Finger pie?

>>10
Not while >>9 is around!

>>9
GOOD, LESS FINGERS IN MY ANUS

>>8

nerd being a person who is easily amused by getting 3 lines of code to optimize by 1 clock cycle

Well tbh that does seem like something marginally interesting. Much better that what I'm doing right now.

At university I was first in course especially in programming classes. I do feel like I'm missing out on something.

tldr: you wont last 6 months in IT

Who do you call it IT. That's belittling :(

>>13
Reading your posts makes me want to gouge my eyes.

>>14
How many more posts will I have to make before you do gouge your eyes?

>>15
You are not >>13.

>>16
It's true. Not nearly enough newlines.

Either get a wider skill-set (more paradigms, languages, tools, etc.), specialize in & master something, or both.

imo try learning a language from each major paradigm (class-based oo, prototype-based oo, functional, imperative, etc) and see what you like, then get good at it and find a job involving it.

In general if you have a specific field of CS you're interested in, that's the best way to learn more because you can apply different things to your interest.

I'm not an AI buff, but in general functional programming seems to be where most AI happens. Try picking up Scheme and then Common Lisp. My favorite functional language is Haskell but it doesn't seem to have a very strong AI community at the moment, but maybe that will change in the future.

>>1
dont isolate yourself to AI just because its CS related. If you find programming boring, its probably because you want to apply it to solving more real world problems. If you notice scientific research nowadays in biology, chemistry, theoretical physics, it is all done on computer now. Dont berate yourself for being bored, you are probably just not using your talents to the fullest. I'll bet if you applied to a research lab, you might find they need IT personal to create research tools.

I dealt with it by taking initiative. I vested myself emotionally into the projects I worked, I actually cared, and I took ownership and responsibility for the things I worked on. In a short manner of time, I went from code monkey to senior programmer in charge of leading projects, and from there, I was able to move on to a better a company where I got to work on stuff that was truly interesting (aerospace industry).

>>16
Like you'd be able to tell.

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