Comment by xeromal

Yeah, I went to school for computer science but I am in no way a scientist. I'm not doing research and I'm not innovating anything that I already hasn't been built. I'm just building it for who needs it.

The space for innovation in computer science is pretty limited when it comes to constructs like how we build something considering how fully featured libraries and such are. Literally everything I've built in my career has been built better by someone else. If I am a scientist, it's the person in the lab making 10,000 flu shots a day.

I'll just say that my career in the industry as a programmer has made me very good at working on my car and I think they're more intertwined and connected then anything theoretical