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<DIV>Tim,</DIV>
<DIV>I can see you're an enthusiastic young man, but take the advice of those of
us that have been there before you. Education is something no one can take
away from you, so the more you have the better, as someone has mentioned before
get some practical experience while you are doing the education trip. I
have a young man come in on either Monday or Fridays doing contract work at a
reasonable rate and he is attending uni. Also as someone has mentioned Uni
is there for learning, and the more you learn the more you can offer.</DIV>
<DIV>As someone wise told me when I was a youngster - get the schooling out of
the way now and party later. In my experience get the schooling now while
you're still young and somewhat in the groove of it, it gets harder to go back
to school later (family, girlfriend, parties, and job).</DIV>
<DIV>Also remember in this field (IT) education is a constant and forever
changing field, so if you hate school then look into a field where schooling
isn't require. As I look back over the years I think I've attended at
least a class every other year since '76 when I graduated from Uni and said
I will never step a foot back on campus.... yeah right!!!</DIV>
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<DIV>Jon L. Miller, ASE, CNS, CLS, MCNE<BR>Director/Sr Systems
Consultant<BR>MMT Networks Pty Ltd<BR><A
href="http://www.mmtnetworks.com.au">http://www.mmtnetworks.com.au</A></DIV>
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<DIV>"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure<BR> is trying
to please everybody." -Bill Cosby</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>>>> weirdo@tigris.org 5:08:33 am 4/08/2004
>>><BR>Hi.<BR>Some of you may know me personally and others just from
inrequent posts. <BR>My name is Tim in case you hadn't read my header and I am
currently in <BR>year 12.<BR>As some of you may know I have a passion in
computers, mainly <BR>programming. This as taken me to Canberra to attend the
AIC selection <BR>school twice.<BR>I have been using linux since the start of
the year that the last Debian <BR>2.2.X was released around Sept (If you can
remember which year it was <BR>please tell me, I am think 2001 as 3.0 was
released 2002)<BR>Since then I have picked up a greater desire to program and am
often <BR>found spending a whole weekend developing an application[1] instead of
<BR>doing study or homework. I don't enjoy study or homework unless it is on
<BR>a computer. I am alright at Calculus[2] and Applicable maths. I am also
<BR>doing physics, geography and English all of which I can do if I study
<BR>harder.<BR>I have topped WA in the UNSW Computer Competition 3 out of 4
years so I <BR>am confident that I have skills in the computer area apart from
the fact <BR>that I enjoy it heaps.<BR>Apart from the fact that I hate school
and am not looking forward to the <BR>upcoming TEE exams I am still going to do
them. What I am writing this <BR>for is guidance. I really enjoy programming
especially when it can help <BR>someone else other than just me. I am not sure
of what to do after year 12.<BR>I know that there is Computer Science and
Software Enginerring that I <BR>can do at Uni but I'm not sure if I want
to.<BR>I also know that I can't live off prgramming for the Open Source
<BR>community unless my work is so good that donations come pouring in or I
<BR>get commercial customers [3]<BR>I am open to any suggestions. Also if you
know away that I can combine <BR>my love for lighting (thearter) with
computers/programming then please <BR>tell me.<BR>Thanks<BR>Tim<BR>[1] As most
of you can't know I am developing a web based chat client <BR>similar to IRC
which will soon be found at <A
href="http://ihcc.sourceforge.net">http://ihcc.sourceforge.net</A> <BR>(In the
next week or so) or for an old version <BR><A
href="http://plug.linux.org.au/~linuxalien/public/talk/.">http://plug.linux.org.au/~linuxalien/public/talk/.</A>
Any guesses on what I <BR>was doing last week end considering it is now on
SF<BR>[2] If I study/do home work<BR>[3] Side note, what license should I
release an application under if I <BR>wish for it to be free for general public
but not for commercial
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