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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers
Give people an opportunity to experiment, and I'm sure that there are times where they are not successful.
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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers
Can you talk about some of those learning experiences?
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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers
Yeah, I love all the things you're saying.
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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers
How much does formal training come into play?
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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers
Are you sending any of the students to get a CTS or learn from any of the manufacturer training that's out there?
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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers
Really fascinating and amazing progress.
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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers
This is a conversation that I think more and more schools need to have and more of the industry needs to be aware of.
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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers
James, what are your thoughts about how we could create more visibility around this?
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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers
that truly applies to business in general.
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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers
I mean, you know, I think that you're, I think we talk about all the time that if you're not making mistakes, you're not growing.
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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers
And there's, for people who don't allow themselves to take risk and take chances, they're really never going to
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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers
go any further than what they're currently doing today.
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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers
In fact, they're probably going to shrink because they're going to be more and more fearful of doing something wrong and it almost freezes you.
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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers
So I can relate to that in so many different ways.
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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers
Jameson, I'm curious what percentage, and I don't know if you could tell or approximate this, of the student workers go on to either pursue an opportunity with your team or go into AV in general?
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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers
And is this something that...
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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers
the industry can look toward, because I've always thought that, you know, student workers could really get interested in this if they stuck with it and did it enough.
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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers
And like you said, there's careers out there that people could really get, you know, become passionate about.
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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers
That's a great lead-in.
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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers
There's so much of an on-ramp to figuring out how to get into programming and most people want to learn it and want to understand it.