hippofluff
Member
I have been inactive for a while but I wanted to make a thread to inform current cubers of the wonders out there once college and life begins (I will try my best to keep this short).
I cubed everyday from 2007-2012, I loved it. I had a natural drive to excel at whatever I did, which was for me cubing, uni cycling, and any other "nerdy" hobby.
Once I got to college I began to enter the world of programming, I quickly grew to love it as I found the same thrill in solving programming problems and building software, as I did with solving rubik's cube puzzles.
To my surprise programming is much more then just coding, I began to collaborate with friends and I developed a thirst to develop apps and make software that affects millions of people.
***To keep this on track, I am trying to connect the line between my cubing passion, and my programming passion. This is because my programming passion is not much different then I felt towards cubing. HOWEVER, engineering software makes money and professional connections while cubing is less likely to support a family or pay you a sustainable salary (in a perfect world....)
So if any young cubers had the attention span to get to this line (I wouldn't have 5 years ago) I would advise you to check out programming, see what's out there. I LOVE hanging out and coding with cubers because we think differently! Think of what it would be like to work at Google, or a start up, or for yourself!
To end this and for some possible motivation I will leave a personal site I developed for myself here using what I learned: http://jakeruth.com/ , I believe everyone here has to ability to change the world with their fingers and I'm not talking about flipping the edges on the cube, I'm talking about hitting the keyboard.
I love to talk about this stuff and get people inspired to be makers, leave a comment or question and I will get back to you as soon as I can
I cubed everyday from 2007-2012, I loved it. I had a natural drive to excel at whatever I did, which was for me cubing, uni cycling, and any other "nerdy" hobby.
Once I got to college I began to enter the world of programming, I quickly grew to love it as I found the same thrill in solving programming problems and building software, as I did with solving rubik's cube puzzles.
To my surprise programming is much more then just coding, I began to collaborate with friends and I developed a thirst to develop apps and make software that affects millions of people.
***To keep this on track, I am trying to connect the line between my cubing passion, and my programming passion. This is because my programming passion is not much different then I felt towards cubing. HOWEVER, engineering software makes money and professional connections while cubing is less likely to support a family or pay you a sustainable salary (in a perfect world....)
So if any young cubers had the attention span to get to this line (I wouldn't have 5 years ago) I would advise you to check out programming, see what's out there. I LOVE hanging out and coding with cubers because we think differently! Think of what it would be like to work at Google, or a start up, or for yourself!
To end this and for some possible motivation I will leave a personal site I developed for myself here using what I learned: http://jakeruth.com/ , I believe everyone here has to ability to change the world with their fingers and I'm not talking about flipping the edges on the cube, I'm talking about hitting the keyboard.
I love to talk about this stuff and get people inspired to be makers, leave a comment or question and I will get back to you as soon as I can