[Blackpool] Udemy discussion... continued?

[James Page]

I'd have popped in today, but my sleep pattern is usually incompatible with
LUG meeting times!

Yep, backing horses sounds right. You have to be something of a
futurologist or a lucky hobbyist to find something nichey and in-demand.
Maybe that's what I'm aiming for? I'm sort of trying to pursue a design
route - User Experience and Service Design - but I want to augment that
with tech skills. I see value in being able to iterate and prototype
concepts which require a technical element. The other aspects of it are
that i) I'm curious and ii) I get frustrated not being able to experiment
with my ideas. Trying to juggle all those things is something else, though!

If it's not an employment market for grads and interns, what's the
impression they give?

Living by the coast is one thing; living on a peninsula is even worse, I
think. I'm interested in the North West Energy Squared scheme as it would
appear to potentially mitigate part of that problem:
http://www.nwblt.com/the-model/ - probably nothing to get too excited
about, though, as it's already had the 'artists impressions' treatment by
The Gazette, so you know it's already doomed to remaining a pipe dream!




Best wishes,
James

On 9 January 2015 at 21:31, Arthur Garlick <arthur_garlick at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Ha ha, well unintentionally I seem to do a good sideline in spam...
>
> I will have to ask you what you do or want to do when I see you next.
>
> I agree with your thought of a bell curve. I relate it more to backing
> horses.  Maybe you'd go for steady odds or maybe you'd go for longer odds
> that might give a better return. Depends on your outlook and circumstance.
> Either way an element of luck that is out of your control will affect the
> out come. All I say is as long as you've made some attempt at a rational
> choice and looked at the form of the skill sets you are looking at.
> Picking a horse or skill set based on you like the colour or with a pin
> means you deserve to loose your shirt.
>
> I am quite opinionated about this because of  experience of fresh from uni
> guys and interns. I get the impression that the idea that it's an
> employment market has been lost.
>
> Living near the coast geographically cuts out 180 degrees of employment
> opportunities, sad but true!
>
> Regards
>
> Arthur
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On 9 Jan 2015, at 20:54, James Page <jmsp.1983 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > For whatever reason, the mailing list is rejecting any further replies to
> > that discussion as spam.
> >
> > I'll see if pasting my original response to Arthur's last reply gets
> around
> > it...
> >
> >
> > Not especially, or at least, not primarily. It's partly so I can maintain
> > my VPS, partly so I can do enough to work around some dev stuff (when it
> > gets to that point, e.g. Ruby) and partly so I can appreciate technical
> > roles and requirements if I'm ever in a position where that would be
> > helpful.
> >
> > Whatever happens for me career-wise, I'm doubtful it's going to be in an
> FY
> > postcode.
> >
> > On the ranking front, would it perhaps follow a bell curve? I can well
> > imagine that the most obscure stuff, whilst not in mass demand, can still
> > have a demand and thus a bigger premium attached to it - for those
> > situations which absolutely demand it (e.g. COBOL, Fortran etc?).
> >
> > As for me, I'm less IT-orientated, despite my interest in tech.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Best wishes,
> > James
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