(May 2, 2023 at 6:00 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote:

(May 2, 2023 at 4:48 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: You should do Muckanaghederdauhaulia next.

Boru

Which journal in Croatia do you think would publish a paper about an Irish placename? Especially a morphologically transparent one, as, ccording to Wikepedia, it means "pig-marsh between two sea inlets". I have no idea what to write about it.

A poor workman blames his tools.

(May 2, 2023 at 4:07 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote:

(May 2, 2023 at 1:39 am)Nay_Sayer Wrote: This feels like a good time to relate a little of my life story to you FA.

When I went to college it was because I wanted to be the first in my immediate family to do so.

So I picked psychology because how the human brain works fascinates me. Now some areas I did very well like 'interpersonal communication' but in others like ' Statistics' I was terrible.  I knew right then I had hit my limit and I was ok with that, It Didn't hurt to try.

The point here is if I had wasted time pursuing it I may never have found the job I do now, Which I really enjoy.  I'm not telling you to give up but instead, maybe refocus your drive elsewhere so you can flourish.

Then both of us were killed by mathematics, right? You were killed by the statistics, while I was killed by Signals and Systems and its successor Control Engineering.

I am refocusing my drive elsewhere. I am publishing papers about the names of places.

Sure but it seems like you're persuing things out of your range.

(May 2, 2023 at 6:03 pm)Angrboda Wrote:

(May 2, 2023 at 6:00 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: Which journal in Croatia do you think would publish a paper about an Irish placename? Especially a morphologically transparent one, as, ccording to Wikepedia, it means "pig-marsh between two sea inlets". I have no idea what to write about it.

A poor workman blames his tools.

I simply don't see how I can write an interesting paper about a long but morphologically transparent placename in Ireland. My latest paper is about the idea that that k-r that repeats in the Croatian river names (Krka, Korana, Krbavica, Krapina, Karašica (2x) and Kravarščica) was the Illyrian word for "to flow", and you can easily write a 13-pages-long paper about that that's almost guaranteed to get published, especially if you apply some informatics (collision entropy and birthday calculations).

(May 2, 2023 at 6:19 pm)Nay_Sayer Wrote:

(May 2, 2023 at 4:07 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: Then both of us were killed by mathematics, right? You were killed by the statistics, while I was killed by Signals and Systems and its successor Control Engineering.

I am refocusing my drive elsewhere. I am publishing papers about the names of places.

Sure but it seems like you're persuing things out of your range.

Well, my father thinks I could reformat the paper I published in Valpovački Godišnjak and Regionalne Studije into a PhD disertation, and I do think that's highly unrealistic. However, I think that me getting a Bachelor degree in Computer Science is not only realistic, but also necessary. How else could I get a job as a programmer? I have no paper right now to help me get hired. I went to a gymnasium high school where I only had IT classes for the first year (in the 9th grade). My classmates who went to a technical high-school are in a better position regarding to this than I am, as, if they drop out from the university, they still have some paper to help them get hired. I have learnt the hard way that my GitHub profile and the knowledge that I can show at the interviews are not enough to get a job.

(May 3, 2023 at 1:11 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: Well, my father thinks I could reformat the paper I published in Valpovački Godišnjak and Regionalne Studije into a PhD disertation, and I do think that's highly unrealistic. However, I think that me getting a Bachelor degree in Computer Science is not only realistic, but also necessary. How else could I get a job as a programmer? I have no paper right now to help me get hired. I went to a gymnasium high school where I only had IT classes for the first year (in the 9th grade). My classmates who went to a technical high-school are in a better position regarding to this than I am, as, if they drop out from the university, they still have some paper to help them get hired. I have learnt the hard way that my GitHub profile and the knowledge that I can show at the interviews are not enough to get a job.

But why programming?  Unless you create your own computer application and market it successfully to a large client base, you'll have to compete against a lot of people for whatever programming jobs are available, and without the Bachelor degree you would probably need a large portfolio of well-written software to even get an interview.

The market for information about place names is, to the best of my knowledge and belief, virtually nonexistent.  Furthermore, you would be competing against established linguists and historians.

Is there any other career path you could explore?

(May 3, 2023 at 8:09 am)FlatAssembler Wrote:

(May 2, 2023 at 6:03 pm)Angrboda Wrote: A poor workman blames his tools.

I simply don't see how I can write an interesting paper about a long but morphologically transparent placename in Ireland. My latest paper is about the idea that that k-r that repeats in the Croatian river names (Krka, Korana, Krbavica, Krapina, Karašica (2x) and Kravarščica) was the Illyrian word for "to flow", and you can easily write a 13-pages-long paper about that that's almost guaranteed to get published, especially if you apply some informatics (collision entropy and birthday calculations).

Why should that trouble you? You have yet to write an interesting paper about the names of Croatian rivers.

Boru

Is there a market for people who study the names of places in Croatia? Can you get a job doing that?

Have you thought about a career in fast food?

I wouldn't want him cooking my burger. Maybe if he just works the register.

(May 3, 2023 at 3:39 pm)Angrboda Wrote: I wouldn't want him cooking my burger.  Maybe if he just works the register.

Fair point.

(May 3, 2023 at 2:00 pm)Astreja Wrote:

(May 3, 2023 at 1:11 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: Well, my father thinks I could reformat the paper I published in Valpovački Godišnjak and Regionalne Studije into a PhD disertation, and I do think that's highly unrealistic. However, I think that me getting a Bachelor degree in Computer Science is not only realistic, but also necessary. How else could I get a job as a programmer? I have no paper right now to help me get hired. I went to a gymnasium high school where I only had IT classes for the first year (in the 9th grade). My classmates who went to a technical high-school are in a better position regarding to this than I am, as, if they drop out from the university, they still have some paper to help them get hired. I have learnt the hard way that my GitHub profile and the knowledge that I can show at the interviews are not enough to get a job.

But why programming?  Unless you create your own computer application and market it successfully to a large client base, you'll have to compete against a lot of people for whatever programming jobs are available, and without the Bachelor degree you would probably need a large portfolio of well-written software to even get an interview.

The market for information about place names is, to the best of my knowledge and belief, virtually nonexistent.  Furthermore, you would be competing against established linguists and historians.

Is there any other career path you could explore?

Well, I think that at everything other than programming, I would suck even more. Furthermore, I think most of my classmates could not even make a PacMan I made back when I was 17, much less a compiler targetting WebAssembly.
I speak 4 languages to some degree: Croatian (native), English (presumably around C1), Latin (Reddit user CaiusMaximusRetardus estimates, based on my latest video in Latin, that I am at the level B2) and German (B1). But I don't think I could work as a translator. I have tried translating some long English text to Croatian, and it took me very long. It takes much more than speaking some language to be a good translator.