Re: future in software industry as a lisp programmer

From: Kenny <kentil...@xxxxxxxxx>
... it is not a practical thing to be a programmer any more. The
field is gone as a career. You may well program in some domain
where you are hired for that domain, but you don't want to walk
around any more looking for "programming jobs".

For some years, as I've developed technology for computer-assisted
instruction, I've wanted to get a job in that field in regular
industry. (My previous major employment was a R&D CAI project at
Stanford.) I'm not interested so much in flashy animated graphics
that entertain more than teach. Rather I'm interested in software
that makes 100% sure the student has *really* mastered the material
being taught. I would like to aid with teaching pre-school children
how to read and spell, helping victims of stroke or Alzheimer's
disease to regain their cognitive function, help victims of
learning disabilities such as dyslexia or trouble-remembering to
overcome that disability, help new employees/trainees learn
technical jargon and other skills, and I also have a CAI-like idea
for advertising that I'd like to propose to replace pop-up/banner
ads on Web pages, etc. (Let me know if you want to try my online
demo of learning Spanish and Mandarin and spelling English most
common words and learning info about good commercial products as
well as my pre-reading CAI to get familiar with phonics of single
letters of the alphabet in the context of the Barney Dinosaur song
lyrics.)

Do you have any suggestions how I might find some potential
employer who would look at some of the technology I already
developed and some of my written ideas for future technology and
consider the possibility of hiring me to adapt some of my existing
technology or implement some of my new ideas towards the needs of
that new employer? Since I put some of my technology online (CGI
service) in late 2002, I haven't succeeded in finding even one
real-live person who would seriously take a "test drive" of my
software for evaluation/brainstorming purposes.


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