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College & University InformationAdult Continued
Education and Immature Living After 40
by:
Bill Platt
There are two kinds of folk in life: those who continue learning well past the last ringing of the high school class bell, and those who are trudging through life praying for retirement.
In my own life, 40 has finally arrived. Am I old? No. Should I feel old? Why?
School is twenty years in the past for myself, and yet, everyday is a learning experience for me. I am still learning natural philosophy and engineering from The Science Channel, and I am engaged in a daily pursuit of learning to be a better computer programmer.
I was one of those unlucky soles in that I graduated from high school in 1983. My select career since 1979 was that of a computer programmer. In 1983, once
I entered college, I was stoked. I was going after my dream to be a computer programmer.
Unfortunately, I was relegated to gaining my education from a two-year college, whose computer science teacher chose to live in the past. The college that was close to my house was my starting point in my college career, and they were stuck in the technologies of the 1960's and 1970's.
While in high school, I had been privileged enough to be able to have Personal Computers in the classroom. I was able to be educated in computer programming on TRS-80's (fondly called Trash 80's by those who used them) and on the 1st Apple Computers to enter the marketplace.
The writing was on the wall. The futurity of computer programming was in the personal computer market. Yet, our educator would-be only teach us Fortran, an already dying language. (By the mid- to late-1980's, nearly every major business had done away with those massive mainframe computers that relied upon the Algebraic language
in operation system.)
It was a really frustrating time in my life. I left college, disenchanted
in the fact that I could not discover the kind of programming that I wanted to do in my life.
Move forward eleven years into the future. It was 1994 and Windows 3.11 was the computer in operation system of choice. Now, that was a long time ago.
In 1994, I hooked myself up with my 1st personal computer, and then began the self-teaching process. In 2001, I began teaching computer programming to students who were paying for Adult Continued
Education courses as our local vo-tech.
For me, programming is an everyday learning experience. This past weekend, I was finally able to break through in my understanding of a construct that I had antecedently
had a lot of problems in comprehending.
It was two days past my Ordinal
birthday, and I had a major learning breakthrough. Even as at 40, I am still young in heart and mind.
If I were to contribute only one thing to my immature feelings that would-be be the fact that even as at 40, I find time in my day to discover new things.
Are you continued
your education, or are you among the poor peoples who are praying for time to race by so that you may enter into retirement? (the average person lives only 3 years past retirement. why should you be athletics
to the grave? instead, contemplate the possibility of athletics
to a life worth living...)
Adult Continued
Education is a worthy
endeavor, whether you are 25, 40 or 85. Please endeavor yourself to discover thing
new today. You wish feel more better once you have done so.
Just about the author:
Bill Platt is a causative writer at http://InvisibleMBA.com. The Invisible MBA is a website concerned only with any and all information that wish help you to get an education and to turn that education into a viable career. Bill has been involved with Article Marketing since 1999. Let him put his experience to activity for you at: http://thePhantomWriters.com
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