From the life of werewolves



Hello! My name is Katya. I’m the future werewolf developer! Not in the sense that my fangs and hair grow on my back every full moon, I just more and more often think that software development is not quite my vocation. Behind three courses at MSTU named after N.E.Bauman. Three more years of study are ahead. Now the equator ...

In my opinion, the topic of career guidance for youth is in its infancy in our country. Can you name popular resources or proven tools to determine your professional future? In my case, there were parents' recommendations and a random division into physicists and lyricists at school.

Black or white?


Remember how in action movies the main character needed to cut the wiring reaching for the bomb? How painfully did he choose a wire of what color should he bite? Red or yellow? Red or yellow? And of course, in the last seconds of fortune turns to face the hero, he makes the right choice, and everyone happily leaves for sunset. Alas, life is different.



How much time do you need to decide which coffee to drink today? And add cinnamon? 10 seconds? Now let's take a popular video game in which in 60 seconds you need to assemble the kit from your means at your post-apocalyptic bunker. In my opinion, choosing a future profession at your seventeen is akin to this kit - you never know what to take with you: a gun or a pasta craft that is so dear to your heart. Shooting off mutant cockroaches is, of course, a noble cause, but there will not be enough cartridges for a long time. And then, if you still take your “creation”, then, firstly, there will be an opportunity to indulge in melancholy about the times when the sun shone in the sky, and not a nuclear mushroom; and secondly, when the supplies run out, you will not immediately try to bite your companion in misfortune, but still make this “pasta” sacrifice.



So, you have 60 seconds to decide what you will do for the rest of your life. What options? Bonus! The situation is complicated by the fact that you are young and ambitious, not disappointed with failures and think that life is a constant holiday.



Some philistinely think at the level: "Whoever earns good there and does not make much effort, I’ll go there." Deputies? Well, it definitely won’t work here. Gos. management is an interesting thing, but most likely you will spend your best years in some Russian “Paris”, trying to organize village self-government so that you have enough for the “Russian Standard” with “Finland”, while your neighbor Petrovich didn’t guess what money something on vodka from his pocket. So, who else? Diplomats? Well, no, you need to study too well, and even be sent to some Pattaya, and sit there, chew bananas, sitting in an armchair that is exactly opposite the likeness of a garbage can. So, who is there? Programmers? Yeah, Zuckerberg. So good. Durov? It's not bad too. What are they doing? They came up with an idea, programmed it and voila. Money is not particularly dusty, they say you can learn some languages ​​and things will go. And the Internet is littered with various articles “programming in 21 days”. Great, decided! As the saying goes: “Bets are made! There are no more bets! ”

Fictional stories


So, you spent two years preparing for the exams. We chose the direction - software development. Decided on a university. Received. The coveted application for enrollment has not yet been signed, and you already imagine sitting somewhere on the Pacific Ocean behind the monitor of the last MacBook, and the money itself arrives in your bank account.

But after the first month, when you saw that the programming was being carried out by a man who found even the very first ENIAC model, but nevertheless worked on it, and believes that the best language in the world is pascal abc, a doubt crept in to you - what if Can't you fly to Hawaii? Something clearly went wrong. It is impossible to reach the Pacific Ocean at such a pace, but most likely you will sit on the banks of the Moscow River and write unnecessary laboratory work, complaining that life turned to you openly in the wrong place. Well, this is only one month, then it will be better. But every day, week, month, and accordingly semester, it becomes rather worse, the ocean first became the sea, then a river, and in the end it completely turned into a puddle near the house.

Here you can blame anyone and anything - from the idiotic program, which was outdated a year ago in 2010, to the teaching staff, because most of the people still have fresh memories of those blissful days when the compiled code needs to wait two days. Although there were those who, as if “a ray of light in the dark kingdom” tried not only to conduct a seminar as soon as possible and go home to drink herbal tea, but also to interest them. But as they say, one in the field is not a warrior. And now, from the third semester, I finally realized - this is not mine. Well, I don’t like to sit at the monitor screen for five hours to write a program for filling the shape using the selective pixel method. And it is every day, from year to year. The idea that everything is not right and wrong hits the brain with a hammer.



Step towards the unknown


So what now? What do I want? Can leave everything as it is? And if, after all, I was not destined to be a programmer, then by whom then? The question is really relevant. If you roll back a little, then I always liked to communicate with people. Against this background, in our small friendly company we even got a peculiar game - “hook”. It was necessary to attract the attention of the person to whom the lot points. No rules and restrictions. It turned out pretty well with me. I can find a common language with people.

Recently, I quite by chance came across an article about PR, I thought: “Eureka! This is definitely mine! ” At first I was upset, they say, well, how so, will I go from programmers to PR specialists? And then I decided to try an internship. So I ended up in the Parallels PR department. On the one hand, this is an IT company, and on the other, it is possible to look at the work of PR specialists from the inside. Actually, this article can be considered an entrance exam. I hope you don’t bother me much in the comments. Did you know from childhood that you would be programmers? Or maybe someone, just like me, right now regrets that he didn’t move from physicists to lyrics in time?



Benefits and Gifts


I know that on Habré they love all sorts of benefits and life hacks. I rummaged around the topic of career guidance and came across several interesting resources. Here, for example, you can take a career test for free .

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