I did five year of engineering school, like a lot of other people. Let's see how I could have used this time in other fields.
In five years, an infantry soldier can go to bootcamp (BCT, 10 weeks), advanced infantry combat school (4 weeks). Then he'll go on to a combat unit, and train with them to prepare for a combat deployment. With a week or two of visits home, this will take up the first year. He could use the remaining four years to conduct up to two 18 months combat tours (with about six month back in country after each one), deployed in a warzone. At the end of his five years, providing everything went well, he will be considered ready to try joining the special forces, if his IQ and fitness are good enough. He could go to NCO school or officer school even sooner, after his first combat tour.
At the end of his five years, a just graduated engineer is considered too green to touch a production server, much less try joining the 'special forces' of our profession. The difference in autonomy in various professions after five years is striking. A surgeon would just start his internship, and assist senior surgeons, but a pilot would already be flying for several years!
That kind of skirts what the grandparent is asking, in the army for example everyone has to annually qualify with their firearm, and each mos has set of tasks they have to demonstrate competency in. All enlisted have to do this with the difference being more senior are also responsible for training. I think that's what the g
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Also five years in the military you aren't in school, you are doing your job. So if an engineering grad did five years of work study or coop, I think they could be trusted with prod servers as you say.
Programming teaching sucks. This is not too surprising considering how unstable programming is. Heck, people who were excellent programmers 10 years ago can suck, I've worked with some of them.
In five years, an infantry soldier can go to bootcamp (BCT, 10 weeks), advanced infantry combat school (4 weeks). Then he'll go on to a combat unit, and train with them to prepare for a combat deployment. With a week or two of visits home, this will take up the first year. He could use the remaining four years to conduct up to two 18 months combat tours (with about six month back in country after each one), deployed in a warzone. At the end of his five years, providing everything went well, he will be considered ready to try joining the special forces, if his IQ and fitness are good enough. He could go to NCO school or officer school even sooner, after his first combat tour.
At the end of his five years, a just graduated engineer is considered too green to touch a production server, much less try joining the 'special forces' of our profession. The difference in autonomy in various professions after five years is striking. A surgeon would just start his internship, and assist senior surgeons, but a pilot would already be flying for several years!