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People who go so far as to get a PhD are generally good enough in their field, don’t worry about it man! If it’s what you want to do, then go for it.

well am studying computer science if am lucky enough i will get my bachelo degree :D lolso to get a ph.d you should be that **** good , which am not ^_^ lol

Follow the path that will lead you to your dream. If, along the way, you realise that that dream isn’t the one for you after all, you will have lost nothing. You will have gained insight along the way and will have discovered yet more avenues leading to yet more dreams. Enjoy the journey!

If you have a PhD in Comp Sci, you will be good enough, and people will know it. You don’t have to be afraid of that.

BUT what I learned about the computer field (in the short time I worked in the field) is you really have to love it, because you will never, never, never, ever stop learning. Advances are being made every day. New releases are being released before the last one is fully QA’d. So, if you LOVE computers… if you LOVE learning about computers and never want to stop learning about them… I think you are on the right track!

And not to worry… a PhD will buy you respect.

Bright blessings ~ Richard

Question yourself if you’re good at maths. Making websites and easy programming is only the first step. You must be really good at mathematics.

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P.Mikiciuk
http://www.datalab.pl

that’s true miki… also you have to ask yourself questions about your personality. Are you a people person? Because if you like dealing with people, computer programmer is not necessarily the way to go. I’m not saying that all computer programmers are socially inept, but many are. It is a hazard of their trade. Also, you need to consider that programming for a business is very different than programming for school. In school, we are asked to write a program to do xyz… at work you will be told to write a program Y… it has to work with both x and z that someone else is writing, AND you need to write this functioning code in 24 hours, plus you need to work with the QA team to debug the code you wrote last week. If you want to be a College professor you will need a few years in the field. Otherwise all you will bring to the table is theory. Most Universities will want some field experience as well.