Comment on If You Want a Job Tomorrow, Cultivate Your Career TodayparentComments−danut16yI think people like Knuth, Torvalds, Carmack, etc. are the models for career development. Why would you assume that a strategy that didn't work for any of the biggest guys around would be better for you than theirs?−gnaritas16yBecause in all likelihood, most people don't have what they have. Those guys are outliers, not the norm.−nostrademons16yI think that answer's a cop-out. Knuth, maybe. But Carmack and Torvalds had pretty unremarkable starts as programmers.
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I think people like Knuth, Torvalds, Carmack, etc. are the models for career development. Why would you assume that a strategy that didn't work for any of the biggest guys around would be better for you than theirs?
Because in all likelihood, most people don't have what they have. Those guys are outliers, not the norm.
I think that answer's a cop-out. Knuth, maybe. But Carmack and Torvalds had pretty unremarkable starts as programmers.