Mostly Grey former ginger with a preference for Rust. Leads wg-rustup, sorry about the mess. He/Him or They/Their Now @kinnison@fosstodon.org too
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While it sounds daft, just put together a CV, which I appreciate will be short on work for you, but you can include talk of Rock Bottom, and how that helps you understand practical programming. And then put a cover letter which says you want a year to reconsider things (tbc)
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Many companies offer a gap-year type employment opportunity for people. I know that we have done so for people both before uni and mid-uni courses. Indeed one ended up staying here instead of going to uni.
Take your time, consider your options, and I'm sure you'll get there.
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My general feeling on this is that if uni isn't working for you, then it's not healthy to try and force yourself into it. Taking a gap year to gain some perspective can be an excellent thing I've seen work for many people.
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If you want a more in-depth discussion of what I did, then we can take it somewhere other than Twitter :-)
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I've put "I switched" but in reality I dropped out for about ten years, and then took it up again as a distance learning course. I'd say that while it was right for me, it was super-hard and did limit my employment options for those ten years.
I'd recommend continuous learning.
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So, it turns out that marmite rice cakes are lovely. Desperately trying to resist eating the whole pack.
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I realise how late to the party I am, but I'm entirely enchanted by 'In a Heartbeat' and enthralled by the music by Arturo CardelΓΊs called 'Sherwin and Jonathan'
spotify:track:1HVrDzlsZoJkRcupCB5ISU
Any embossing to help distinguish between the normal and the joint? (as per our previous chat about where to put the dots)
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OpenGL has been on the outs for some time now, though it's sad that they've not gone the whole-hog to Vulkan. Fortunately there'e Molten (Vulkan-on-Metal)
New cross-platform games should really be targetting Vulkan.
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