OT: IT career advice

[jjirsa78]

Originally posted by cthetoy
Wow, lot of tips here. Here are some tips from the interviewer point of view since we hire lots of part timer here for the City Government

1. Be on time for you interview. Yes we get plenty of no shows and people coming in 10 min late.

Hahahaha. I did the 2 minute rule for everywhere I hired, and anytime I'm dealing with vendors or potential clients. That is: Show up 2 minutes late, if they act like an *** about it, they're probably not going to be someone you want a relationship with anyway. If I were 2 minutes late to an interview, and the company acted like it was a problem, I can only imagine what sort of problems they'd come up with when real time intervals were involved.

Then again, I found a very good company to work for, as I sit here on RC wearing flipflops and a t-shirt. Still have the 24x7 sidekick w/ ssh thing though, that's my only regret.

[chainsaw5vent]

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I'm currently making close to $30K...which is more than most of my 22 year old friends...but I'd really like to double that within the next two years if possible. What's my best career path? Should I finish my 2-3 years at community college then transfer to a UC? Should I just go for an MCSE? I've seen job postings for MCSE's anywhere from $60K-$100K
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finish your schooling. then spend 2 years in pursuit of emergency medical technician, paramedic, state cert firefighter 1 and 60k per year will be your base pay. and you'll make 100k + including overtime. and you'll still have time to pursue the computer career.
one of our retirees (injury) was a financial services geek BEFORE he went to medic school and fire academy. now that he's retired, he makes megabucks off of everybody else's money. last report was he has purchased a ford GT

if you can, always have a fall back career option.

[JeffersonReef]

Originally posted by abendx
Agreed... situationally, things can be difficult. I recently watched a movie that was hard to swallow, but was amazing. It 100% fits with what we are talking about.... maybe rent it if you have the time. It is titled, "The Pursuit of Happyness."

lol... the man played russian roullet and won.... I cant respect someone like that. The odds were that he would end up homeless. Do you know that in real life, his kid was a toddler when they were homeless/during the internship? I guess they took creative liberty in making his kid like 12...so people wouldnt realize what a loser he was....