TL;DR quote from the article:
> Why do parents continue helping children into their early twenties or beyond? It seems to be, largely, because they can.
Who said trickle-down economics doesn't work? :trollface:
> Why do parents continue helping children into their early twenties or beyond? It seems to be, largely, because they can.
Who said trickle-down economics doesn't work? :trollface:
I don't doubt that this hasn't been as necessary in the past though.
I, personally, had to live with my parents for the first few years out of college. They were too poor to help out financially. To offset that, I don't take vacations, don't have a car, and generally just don't go out into town.
I went to an unknown state school,stayed at home and within three years I was making as much as people who paid more per year than I paid an entire four years.
That said, if I went back in time, I'd still attend the same school. It was a (expensive) life-changing experience.
(moral of the story: predicting the future is really, really difficult)
I did graduate from a no name school with a horrible CS program in the mid 90s and it didn’t affect my career.
That could have been a horrible mistake. Especially seeing that I was accepted to Georgia Tech (still a state school) but I went to my school for free and they gave me room and board even though I stayed at home.
However, the few others that graduated with me from the CS department weren’t so lucky. I had the advantage of having a computer growing up and a lot of them didn’t have one growing up or in college. By the time I got to college, I had already been programming in assembly for 6 years on an Apple //e and in college I had an (expensive) Mac running Soft PC (x86 emulator). I also released a shareware program in college that caught the attention of another college to give me my first freelance contract.
That led to me being able to impress another company in Atlanta they offered me an internship with free lodging. Which led to my first job and the rest is history.
There was no GitHub back then or an easy way for most people to publish software. I happened to know how to hack around a dialup gopher server (showing my age) to get to Nyx (http://nyx.net/) that offered a Unix shell to publish to the ftp Info Mac archives.
Today, I have a relative who was thinking about getting a CS degree from the same college I went to. I discouraged him and his mom from him going there. He actually needed the exposure, the education increased opportunities for internships, etc.
I still said that he should do his first two years st home and then transfer to a college in Atlanta.
But, if he was going to enter a low paying, non competitive field like teaching, social work, etc. I would have suggested he stay in the no name state school.
But what you do in your own time, at least in the Computer Science field, is likely what gets you a job you'll enjoy. If you aren't fooling around with servers and such, it's also a good indicator that this might not be the career you'd actually like to pursue.