What sofware is most used in the professional field?

[barclaycon]

Bandler and Grinder borrow a lot from others (notably Erickson and Fritz Perls) and seem to have a special liking for TLA:
Three Letter Acronyms.
Whereby giving something a fancy title e.g. Neuro Linguistic Programming or NLP will make it more profound.
As a student of psychology and hypnotherapy myself, I've come across a lot of modern thinking that seems to be a re-hash of what has gone before and which was probably regarded at the time as 'esoteric' thought. That's not to belittle modern stuff like NLP, TLT, CBT, but it's important to ascertain what is being conveyed without getting too bogged down in the detail.
Audio is a perfect example in so much as we revere a lot of the old stuff because it sounds great. We don't have to prove it sounds great with lots of graphs and figures, we can just listen to it. I'm sure they didn't have sophisticated test equipment and computer modeling when a lot of this great stuff was designed.
Knocking up a prototype and fiddling with it can be every bit as useful as a page of maths; perhaps more so.

 

[BYacey]

It's impossible to see the direction things take in the future, but if you are going to take the time to learn a particular type of software, choose one that is an industry standard.

As an example when I made the jump from hand drafting PC boards to design software, I started using Ivex products. It was a slow procedure at first, but over time I became fairly familiar and quick with it. However Ivex is now gone, and I find if I want to use updated, more modern software I have to re-learn a current product.

An industry standard is less likely to go out of business and retains a certain familiarity with upgrades so the end user experiences a smoother transition to the new changes (usually).

 

[Guest]

[quote author="barclaycon"]Bandler and Grinder borrow a lot from others (notably Erickson and Fritz Perls) and seem to have a special liking for TLA:
Three Letter Acronyms.
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The whole NLP is the mean to "Borrow" models (I would call that "Steal", though there are no copyrights on ways of thinking, because there is no way to return "Borrowed" models back to owners, such as M. Erickson, etc...) :grin:

[quote author="barclaycon"]
Knocking up a prototype and fiddling with it can be every bit as useful as a page of maths; perhaps more so.[/quote]

110% agree. Any software modeling is repeating of a previous experience, including mistakes...

 

[CJ]

Holy Cow, I have an SR 11, same as the ten but smaller buttons I believe.
I was going to donate it to the Comp Museum, they have a zillion HP's and not one TI, who, to this day, turned out to be the winner of the HP/TI calc battle.
Zillions of TI's sold, what are the numbers, anybody know?

 

[lagoausente]

I agree with John

If you are interested in making money go into the business side. If you enjoy electronics, design, being creative more than dealing with people then go for something that interests you. But be forewarned that engineers are DEFINITELY underpaid

Well, I´m not the type of guy who wants to win lots of money. In the other hand I´m not sure how much that "underpaid" is.
In the other hand, dealing with people is not my best point, so I don´t imaging as a comercial guy.
The doubt just now is about starting a degree. I´m not a "neird", but I´m intelligent enough to can study a degree. The question here is to can get a decent job in the future, not necesary lots of money.
Here in Spain there are two steps in the engeneering degree:
3 years: Tecnichian Engeneer
5 years: Superior Engeneer
I think in USA the terms are something like Bachelor and Master of something like that.
I have in mind some of the industrial fields:
Industrial electricity
Industrial electronic
Industrial mechanical

Any of them are 3 years the fist degree. I have really doubts if would worth the time and effort, and what field would have better job posibilities, any of you know something about this?