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12678916, None of this is necessarily true, provided he finds the right people, company
Posted by MiQL, Wed Dec-17-14 06:35 PM
I work w/ jr devs all the time and they have great ideas.
A jr dev just this past weeked helped us win a hackathon from his ideas.
He works at a chill ass company on the front lines of IoT.
Thanks to him, I got a new Tessel.

Anyhow, if he wants to kneel @ the altar of PHP, Java, and .NET, then, sure, lots of menial labor ahead.
There's A LOT of those shitty jobs around.
He just has to pay attention to company culture and what those companies use.


>>don't like authority or menial/boring work.
>
>>Torn between accounting with a statistics minor or getting
>into
>>computer programming.
>
>
>them things don't go together
>especially if you're just starting out as a jr programmer
>you will be the bottom person on a team
>you will have a senior person tell you what to code and how to
>code it
>

They actually go great together.
There's been an explosion of statistics in programming in the form of data science and big data.

>you will lose all sense of coding autonomy
>
>you will be forced to adhere to whatever coding system they
>already have in place
>
>the work can be boring and very repetitive
>many times businesses find one thing that works
>and repeat that process hundreds if not thousands of times
>after it has been efficientized making them the most profit
>
>they are not going to reinvent the wheel each go round
>
>
>EDIT:
>i've done all that work that you mentioned
>Forensic Accountant
>Statistician
>Biostatistician
>Data Modeller

It's all about what org you're a part of and what team.