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I figured you might. That is why I posted anonymously.
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When I was a first year undergraduate student of Computer Science, I take a course named Programming Language I. It was so interesting that I forgot about all my other courses. It was so nice to feel. And some days later I found I become a little (really) more important in the department than my classmates. And I started to get money much b4 my classmates.
Tomorrow is a blank page
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Seems that there are not many threads, but it's after noon here ?
I can't beleive that I am the first to post!
Anyhow, I have responded something that is contradictory:
basically anything but "sales and marketing" and "Business development", including "leave it altogether".
Really, there are days where I consider this, but not very seriously, since I don't seem to be able to think of another career that I would be good at and enjoy all at once. (I have considered being a "creative consultant" for science fiction movies or novels, but I don't know how to get a job in that field. Can't write my own novels, since I am a lousy writer and seem to be too lazy to pick-up the skills)
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Looks the the poll has only just been put up. I was 15th voter......
I have thought about where I want to go, and have so far resisted being bumped into managment as I know thats not where my skills lie. Currently just aiming to be a lead developer/architect.
Bamaco2 wrote:
Can't write my own novels
I started writing my own one a while back called "Bodycount rising". Not got very far with it. I think at the the time of stopping I had got to one zit on my heros nose squeezed. 
If you vote me down, my score will only get lower
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Roger Allen wrote:
I started writing my own one a while back called "Bodycount rising". Not got very far with it.
Let me help you out.
*BANG* one, *STAB* two, *SLIT* three, *SMASH* four.
Michael
CP Blog [^]
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Bamaco2 wrote:
(I have considered being a "creative consultant" for science fiction movies or novels, but I don't know how to get a job in that field. Can't write my own novels, since I am a lousy writer and seem to be too lazy to pick-up the skills)
Sadly, you don't get those kind of jobs without being able to write. Otherwise we'd all be doing it.
Of course not being able to write a decent story without resorting to technobabble has kept the Star Trek writers in work for the last ten years, so maybe all hope isn't lost
Michael
CP Blog [^]
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I disagree!
Most of the Star Trek work (episodes in TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY and ENT as well as movies and novels) seem to be decent enough, with a few exceptions in novels.
Technobable is only used to quickly explain something away, as long as it does not distract the main storyline, it's okay.
Come on! Most science fiction work requires the reader to engage in a "suspension of disbelief" activity. It is required to make any work plausible. Otherwise, anyone can argue that any story set in any science fiction universe just can't make sense.
Technobable and StarTrek, in general, allows one to quickly define the limits of the universe w/o writing a book about it.
One example where I tought that it might help is "The lord of the ring". The 2nd half of the 3rd novel goes on about all kinds of insignificant details. Most of the rest of the trilogy contains a lot of non essencial material, too. Still, I enjoy "TLOFTR" because it became the point of origin for most of the fantasy universe.
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Bamaco2 wrote:
Technobable is only used to quickly explain something away, as long as it does not distract the main storyline, it's okay.
That excludes most episodes of Voyager then.
Bamaco2 wrote:
Technobable and StarTrek, in general, allows one to quickly define the limits of the universe w/o writing a book about it.
Defining rules for the universe is one thing, but using technobabble to resolve a storyline is very poor form. Good science fiction like all good drama, is more about the characters and their human experiences than the scientific gobble-de-gook.
Michael
CP Blog [^]
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Michael P Butler wrote:
Defining rules for the universe is one thing, but using technobabble to resolve a storyline is very poor form. Good science fiction like all good drama, is more about the characters and their human experiences than the scientific gobble-de-gook.
But isn't that the distinction between science fiction and fiction? I think that was why next generation was so much more popular, you actually believed that the science was real.
Go back to reading your romance novels 
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