(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.
