it-industry

Can someone who does not like to look at the screen for extended periods of time work in the IT industry (as a programmer)?

I admit the person I'm talking about is me. As much as I enjoy programming, I find it kind of like a chore to look at the screen for long periods of time. My eyes become unable to focus properly after sometime. As I'm a student, I do not have as much code to write as a professional programmer does, and sometimes I just write my code on p...

How do you keep track of what the industry is up to?

A discussion elsewhere made me realize that I don't do a particularly good job of following the software industry. My exposure to new trends or technologies is haphazard at best, often limited to a "Hey, that sounds interesting" when I see people discussing something I'm not familiar with on SO. To abuse a metaphor, I'm quite familiar ...