When you tell people you're a computer science major and they tell you you should get an education degree as well, because "our nation's children need to learn how to code." Which is fine, but no one tells my male peers they should become teachers instead of working in industry. Just saying. Doesn't make me mad, I just think it's funny

Nice rant. Gender aside, are you teaching material? I tried for two years but was rubbish :/ Maybe you can actually say words that make sense!?

Thanks! Yeah my impression is teaching is one of those things that either does or doesn't come naturally... I do like explaining how things work, but I'm not sure I'd enjoy working in a classroom. I would probably enjoy participating in educational community-outreach types of things (e.g. stem summer camps, etc.) because it feels good to be involved and helpful!

I actually enjoy teaching (well, at least all the small bits)

That's great! It's an important area for sure! @DRHAX34

I commented and forgot to tag you :p @joetj

Sorry that happened to ya. :/ I feel like it's the same for many females in my country too. Though most of them pursue teaching after their CS of their own accord (probably the same gender bias on corporate level).

I taught programming for a month and I hated every minute of it. Though going to be teaching again in a month and kinda looking forward to it this time.

@theOverseer thanks! Hey I'm glad you're looking forward to it this time, I hope you have a good teaching experience!

It is funny. I wanted to study languages back in the day, to which a relative replied "what are you going to do? Teach? Why don't you go learn ballet then?"

@BellAppLab "why don't you learn ballet" is such a strange thing to say, I bet you're glad you program instead!

@AnnaMartin it was meant as something girls do; teaching and languages.

I'm quite happy programming, but still like languages more. Didn't end up not studying them because of the relative though.

@BellAppLab oh oh I get it now! I was confused because I didn't know languages were supposed to be a girl thing... Languages are super cool, I studied Russian before I started to program and found the learning experience oddly similar!

@AnnaMartin I know! It's like poetry: all you have to do is find the right word at the right place.

@BellAppLab yeah exactly! Super cool. Do you have a favorite human language?

@AnnaMartin All the languages!!!!! :)

You?

@BellAppLab nice!! I'm particularly interested in Slavic languages. I speak Russian, I'd like to learn Polish or Czech.

@AnnaMartin I hear the Slavic family is quite close. They're mutually understandable to some degree, to the point where distinguishing between tem becomes more of a political issue than an issue of communication.

(Well, politics is also what makes a language a language, isn't it?)

I'm particularly interested in linguistics and language acquisition and how human beings are quite good at cracking the code of a language. I mean, Slavic languages are quite different from Latin languages, for example, yet a case of a native speaker of one being unable to learn the other is yet to be recorded.

Uhhh..... Goose bumps. :)