I strongly believe that a student can be a researcher and developer at the same time. Once I started my job at a software company called NOCHALLENGE, I started working 14 hours (not imposed by company, I imposed on myself) and started learning lots of new things like professionalism, subtle issues, new tools and new job requirements. I believed that without software development experience, a person can't be a good researcher in software engineering field. To accomplish that goal, I kept working for 2 full time jobs ( Lead developer @ NOCHALLENGE and Lecturer @ CSE, KU). I worked hard (very hard) for the last 3 years and discovered my capability of handling pressure- its quite satisfactory. Anyway, now I am retiring from software development temporarily and looking for research opportunities.
