What do you do and how did you start?

Purphexyon · 10-12-2013, 04:26 PM

(10-12-2013, 04:12 PM)w00t Wrote: One thing I'm seeing a lot of here is over diversification. You can't be a leet programmer, a digital artist, an entrepreneur, and( for most of you ) a full time student. At best, you can do two, if one is being a student.

You can if you suck at being a student :p

Jiggly · 10-12-2013, 06:32 PM

(10-12-2013, 04:12 PM)w00t Wrote: One thing I'm seeing a lot of here is over diversification. You can't be a leet programmer, a digital artist, an entrepreneur, and( for most of you ) a full time student. At best, you can do two, if one is being a student.

I see the point you're making. Perhaps some of these are more hobby based or just something they are interested in but not necessarily doing full-time?

Either way, most of us are rather young here, so our roles/what we do will probably specify/change as we get older.

w00t · 10-13-2013, 05:21 AM

Yes, but you should still try to only focus on one or two things, you cannot be good at everything, and trying will do nothing but ensure your across the board failure.

Harvey · 10-13-2013, 05:24 AM

(10-12-2013, 02:49 PM)Jiggly Wrote: Oh awesome! I'm a first year too! xD FRESHERS WOO.

Are you in America or elsewhere? Cos Freshers is not as awesome without the ability to get drunk on campus

Australia. Smile

Eclipse · 10-14-2013, 10:27 AM

I want to do something in computing. Whether that be programming, website design or computer hardware. I have always loved computers. The internet inspired me.

lux · 10-14-2013, 10:36 AM

I aspire to become a web developer/designer, systems administrator AND a marketer AND graphic design...

Go to sixth form (Your American college) to study:

Art: Graphics
Business Studies
ICT
Media Studies

Then go onto an arts university to study BA (Hons) Graphic Design.

Hopefully getting a placement in a creative company where I can improve and develop my web design and business skills.

Jiggly · 10-14-2013, 05:16 PM

(10-14-2013, 10:36 AM)xLinear Wrote: I aspire to become a web developer/designer, systems administrator AND a marketer AND graphic design...

Go to sixth form (Your American college) to study:
Art: Graphics

Business Studies

ICT

Media Studies

Then go onto an arts university to study BA (Hons) Graphic Design.

Hopefully getting a placement in a creative company where I can improve and develop my web design and business skills.

Wow that's epic! I've got friends doing that at Uni already up in Norwich. I could only do Fine Art in 6th form with the other boring A Levels (which is why I'm doing BA (Hons) Fine Art now.) I'm incredibly jealous of your A Level choices xD I wasn't allowed to do Media studies either actually >.>

I'm allowed to do some graphic design on my course. Some. When are you off to Uni? And which places are you interested in? (If you want to share that information of course.)

(10-14-2013, 10:27 AM)Sparks Wrote: The internet inspired me.

The ultimate inspirer xD

Nil · 10-14-2013, 05:27 PM

I specialize in baseball. I started when I was 3, when my father caught me throwing straight gas in the backyard.

I've never really had role models my whole life, but I do vaguely look up to players like Bryce Harper, Mike Trout, and Manny Machado, considering how young they are and what they have accomplished. It's definitely inspiring.

In a couple of years, I'll still be playing ball, and if all goes well get drafted. That's always the goal.

In conjunction with baseball, I plan on studying in the computer field. If I didn't play baseball, my dream was to get into engineering, preferably computer engineering, but I cannot do both, at the very least excel at both. So I plan on going down the computer science route. Haven't figured out the exact path but I have time. I've contemplated software programming the most as I like to understand how things work at the roots.

lux · 10-14-2013, 05:49 PM

(10-14-2013, 05:16 PM)Jiggly Wrote: Wow that's epic! I've got friends doing that at Uni already up in Norwich. I could only do Fine Art in 6th form with the other boring A Levels (which is why I'm doing BA (Hons) Fine Art now.) I'm incredibly jealous of your A Level choices xD I wasn't allowed to do Media studies either actually >.>

I'm allowed to do some graphic design on my course. Some. When are you off to Uni? And which places are you interested in? (If you want to share that information of course.)

The ultimate inspirer xD

I want to do Media Studies because I run a blogging site. :3 Plus I think it'll help out with graphic design! Biggrin

I'm currently in year 11 Sad

So I should be off to uni in 2015/16 And I was looking at Arts University Bournemouth.. It looks pretty good Biggrin

The_Joker · 10-14-2013, 06:09 PM

I'm a freelance systems administrator. I started out by running my own linux servers across a small LAN, then expanded to servers across the internet. I also do a bit of pentesting on the side. I'm looking to go to school for computer engineering or computer science, and work as a sysadmin after.