jsmile
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于 2004-01-09 13:01
tungchan, Probably the title of your post is too vague or ambiguous which confused me in the first place. Why is software engineering a failure? Why is OO blamed? From your next few posts, I sort of understood what you were trying to express. But I am still not convinced. Just like "Why does't surgery make medical practice successful - People are still getting older and dying".
I like the saying "做你所爱,爱你所做" which is what I am trying to do right now. 9 -> 5, 爱你所做; 5 -> 9 做你所爱. They are not conflict with each other, sometimes they overlap. But I am sure you don't want to mix them totally and you are not able to, unless you are a reckless man.
工作【job】是一个土著用标枪打猎。 事业【career】是一个运动员用标枪比赛。 Honestly, maybe there are some differences, but are not big enough to convince me. They both are trying to use 标枪 to survive. 土著 uses trophy (prey) for food and trade for cloth to keep him warm. 运动员 uses trophy to earn salary to buy food and cloth. If there have had money back then, 土著 for sure would have traded for money first. Now I am a 土著 who is using computer. My boss is a super 土著 (tribal chief ). Is James Gosling a 土著 or 运动员? Bill Gates is definitely a 运动员. So are all the grocery store owners. (no offense) I am happy to be a 土著. During the day, I make the best 标枪 and try to catch the biggest animal in tribe history, during the night, I just dance around the bonfire and drink something (pretend it's beer). I might want to run for tribal chief of hire someone hunting. But those will not make me any happier.
My humble opinion, career is just a path/collection of jobs.
Thinking is always good.
Probably I should start thinking how to become a athlete. But according to Larry Ellison's speech at Yale, I am too late.
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