*snort* Programming job for a teen still in highschool?

[Virum]

@Jeff

Of course if your parents are gonna let you live at home and theya re gonan feed you then its a whole different story…

laughing

Yeah. I still live with my parents, and will for the next two years. After two years (transferring in from Ventura Community College), I plan on living on Chapman’s campus.

[nonnus29]

Vorax story displays alot more than luck; it took balls to do that (ie ‘personal courage’ but its more fun to type ‘balls’ ).

Personally, I’d love to get some startup capital, hire about 100 Indian programmers and build a system to put my company out of business. The people I work for are stuck in the stone ages of computing (project management, documentation, productivity etc…). They are RIPE for the plucking. Umm and this is relevant because… :-\

[quote]so I don’t know if I could pull something like that off, if only because I’m spending most of my time working in the direction I’d prefer to go (filmmaking). In other words, I’m not “truly dedicated to programming.”
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Do you have any interest in ‘machinema’?

[Jeff]

@nonnus29

Vorax story displays alot more than luck; it took balls to do that (ie ‘personal courage’ but its more fun to type ‘balls’ ).

Personally, I’d love to get some startup capital, hire about 100 Indian programmers and build a system to put my company out of business. The people I work for are stuck in the stone ages of computing (project management, documentation, productivity etc…). They are RIPE for the plucking. Umm and this is relevant because… :-\

[quote]so I don’t know if I could pull something like that off, if only because I’m spending most of my time working in the direction I’d prefer to go (filmmaking).

So I have a degree in both comp sci and film production .

Im production certainly IS someplae still where yo ucan “work your way up.” Id try to land a productio nassistant position. Which basically means you’ll do all the sh-t work and not get paid, but thats how yo ustart learning and makingf contacts traditionally in the industry.

Otherwise, you could go to school for a film degree. In general I think msot academic film dgrees are large part BS (and that includes mine) BUT you are lucky being right in the idnsutry there, you actually have good film schools (USC and UCLA). Hard to get into but if you really want to do it then work at it. generally the folks who succeed are just the folks who refuse to give up.

There aer also some good trade schoosl out there. I have a friend who is a course dirctor at Full Sail in Florida. Ive visted down tehre adn their facilities and prgoram blew me away. Its MUCH better then my 4 year school had.

Ofcourse also get sued to eating beans and ramen soup and living 4 guys to an apartment 'cause LA is full of people who want to mzake it in the film industry and smot fo them wait tables and drive cabs to survive…
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