I hate when I feel bad and find myself lacking in words to describe the bad.
Weird
Crappy
Cynical
Depressed even?
I don’t know…whatever it is, it generally bothers me a lot when I feel like this that I can’t express how I feel or why I feel it.
In other sort-of related news, I’ve determined I should have been into CS. I’m sure I would have been bored with it (or maybe not ‘bored’ but more like sick of it) by the end, but just from a point of talent, I think I’m better at programming and thinking in terms of code than I am in thinking of terms of voltages, capacitance, inductance, current, and resistance….that is not to even make mention of exactly how completely terrible I am at thinking in terms of the movement of electrons through dielectric materials.
I’ve produced more things at work that actually create exponential time savings through researching available tools provided by our suppliers, and through writing code (web stuff…programing in PHP and such, as well as VB -based things, mostly in excel) than I have by doing any other stuff.
Speaking of code…does anyone know how to change the size of an array that recieves information in excel (an array in this case, being a range of cells) based on the size of an array (in this case being an generally abstract programing thing for holding data) returned from a function.
I’m creating a spreadsheet that can access our database for all the stuff our company does, and it returns the part numbers for each job with corresponding serial numbers. The problem is that sometimes I need the array to expand when the returned data overflows the bounds, instead of just truncating the data returned. And, other I need it to shrink in order to not create a bunch of white-space in some other drop-down menus I created which access the data from the database.
That is all now, I must go home.
Barnabas says
To think that you must have a 4 year degree specifically applied to CS to make a living in that industry is far overestimating the maturity of my profession. About half of the accomplished programmers that I meet, in real life and on the web, have degrees in electrical or mechanical engineering. The problem solving premise of the two fields is very closely related. If God seems to be guiding you in that direction, then I would persue it.
In related news, I often find myself lusting after the field of engineering. That feeling is also quite vague.