Seriously, do ppl in other professions have it that easy?
I really don’t get it.
The melody of logic will always play out the truth. ~ Narumi Ayumu, Spiral
Nope, I disagree that only IT professional are caught in the cycle of endless-learning. I was on the train just this morning and overheard someone stating "As it is today in medical industry, what you learn today gets obsolete within 3 years!"
I strongly believe that we're not alone in this vicious cycle of continuous learning. Hardly is there any industry which doesn't change with time or make advancements with time. On the other hand, I, too have friends in the IT industry which have already "given" up on continuously learning, and moved to a comfortable support role - which allows them to basically hibernate their knowledge and lengthen the lifespan of their IT knowledge. Is that the life that you want? Personally, I've gone there and it's tempting to give up the dog-fight and just join that comfortable sideline. Maybe one day I will, but for now, I prefer where I'm standing, and the endless pursuit of technology.
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Same here. I enjoy learning, implementing and supporting new technology. I prefer job which give me new challenge everyday.
No matter which industry you are in, you will have to continue to learn and improve your knowledge in order to remain relevant to current working environment.
microlau:"As it is today in medical industry, what you learn today gets obsolete within 3 years!"
Having a friend who was educated in medicine, i know medical professionals have it just as "bad". There is no end to discoveries of the human body and all the lovely chemicals we can formulate to influence and manipulate it :-) Their equivalent of technical books are medical journals and research papers, and what's worse, their trade is more life threatening than most of ours. But I digress.
I did not write that as a complaint about our hardship; I simply refuse to believe other fields cannot simply be are that lax. The point is the regularity that people question my reasons for reading. Like it is an activity that is out of the norm. Other friends have told me that is because I have not met the dedicated people who actively pursure knowledge in their respective profession; meeting such people are rare situations.
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icelava:I did not write that as a complaint about our hardship;
Lol...Never did I once suspect that you will even have the slightest idea of complaining.
icelava:I simply refuse to believe other fields cannot simply be that lax.
Yes, other fields cannot be that lax. I was once tempted to thinking that only IT needs to be caught in a vicious and never-end learning cycle. But I've learnt much since then and moved on what that thinking. All professional need to constantly learn in order to stay relevant. End of story. Stay put and be prepared to get "side-lined" one day.