[Baypiggies] Bioinformatics Python Programmer

[Benjamin Sergeant]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Paul McNett <p at ulmcnett.com> wrote:
> Andrew Dalke wrote:
>>
>> But there are people, like me, who like working with more physically
>> oriented data sets than working on, say, financial data or social networks.
>>  People who just like science, and will take the pay cut.
>
> This is getting off topic, and personal, but I've been doing application
> design and implementation in the accounting, small business, point-of-sale,
> and small manufacturing arenas for my entire career. I've always been
> interested in science, and follow with great interest the
> written-for-laypeople science articles. But I never took any but the most
> basic science courses in high school and college (I don't even have any
> computer science formal education).
>
> I'm very happy with my consulting life but sometimes I wish I were doing
> more for the common good. Like being involved in advancing human knowledge
> somehow.
>
> So as I get older and more financially secure, I can see myself getting more
> likely to pursue a job as a programmer in some interesting scientific
> project. I think it would add some level of personal satisfaction to my
> life, knowing that I'm contributing to the greater good.
>
> So, I appreciate knowing about such opportunities, even though there's no
> way I'd apply for this particular gig at this particular time, because I
> agree with Aahz that it would be rude to waste people's time that way.
>


Maybe no one will answer this posting because it looks too hard, and
what will be wasted is that they won't find anyone ... while maybe you
would have been a great fit.

There are some stuff you can learn while doing a job, that's the job
of an engineer. I have a coworker who worked for NASA and who did not
understand a thing about propulsion chemistry. But he wrote the
program that drove some spaceship because he got some specs from
someone who did ...

I have never done any Python at the paying job, but I like to learn
things and now I can do some python. It's very pessimistic to believe
you're gonna do only what you learned in hight school/university or in
your first job for your whole life.










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