70K Before Wacken 2013

[Finnchick]

That's a good idea. Trust me if you plan to pursue IT you will need all the advantage you can get - the market is shit right now unless you have some really specific specializations. If you aren't familiar with development for smartphones/ devices I'd highly recommend that. General IT people don't get decent jobs anymore. Now a days they just hire some random monkeys and then go cry when shit goes wrong. It's honestly so bad in this field that I wouldn't recommend it to anyone anymore and will be doing my utmost to dissuade my son from following that path (even though his dad and I are both in IT) Best you can get these days is about $18 / hour for a crap contract that ends in 6 months without benefits / vacation or anything else. I was making 18$/hour TEN years ago when I graduated from university. To me paid the same now really shows how shitty the industry has gotten.

I'm actually really glad my old bosses (yes, 3 of them one after another) pushed me to be Project Manager / Service Manager instead of specialist. World is full of specialist and full of Project Managers but there is real need for Technical Project Managers (people that can really handle both sides of things and not just say so). 2 recruiting companies were really interested to get me to their lists in Finland but at that point I didn't want to work in Finland so now I might have harder time to get a job because I still don't speak german.

 

[xforeverxmetalx]

I have my degree in Computer Science

Smart phones / Iphones / Touch pads.. all need apps. My boyfriend's company does market research using touchpads (like an IPAD) they just hired 2 developers to maintain the software and write new programs.. paying 150K /yr + Android programming is taking off also. Basically as long as the phones/devices are getting smarter they will need people to write programs for them. I wish I had the option to go back to school for development but by the time I graduated I'd be almost retired

Maybe I could get into that. Though it doesn't sound like writing apps for that kind of money is something you do straight out of college. Who knows.

 

[Quark]

SL?

For me SL = Second Life

No.

If I'm correct, SL = Schleswig.
The first (1,2,3) characters on e.g. German licence plates.

 

[xforeverxmetalx]

I'm actually really glad my old bosses (yes, 3 of them one after another) pushed me to be Project Manager / Service Manager instead of specialist. World is full of specialist and full of Project Managers but there is real need for Technical Project Managers (people that can really handle both sides of things and not just say so). 2 recruiting companies were really interested to get me to their lists in Finland but at that point I didn't want to work in Finland so now I might have harder time to get a job because I still don't speak german.

Nice. If you're having that kind of luck in Finland, I imagine you could get someone in Germany to take you without too many issues.

 

[Koldawne]

Maybe I could get into that. Though it doesn't sound like writing apps for that kind of money is something you do straight out of college. Who knows.

Actually they had 4 CO-OPS running the company for a while and yes you can get a job like that right out of school if you are in the right place

 

[Koldawne]

Nice. If you're having that kind of luck in Finland, I imagine you could get someone in Germany to take you without too many issues.

You may be able to get a position where they will even pay for your training in German if you are that good I know here they have positions like that where you can learn the second language (in my case French) while you are working.

 

[xforeverxmetalx]

Actually they had 4 CO-OPS running the company for a while and yes you can get a job like that right out of school if you are in the right place

My dad may be able to help a bit with that. He works for IBM so he probably knows a bunch of different people. Maybe I'll have him tell them about the time I pranked my mom's computer so well he couldn't figure it out and thought it had a virus.

 

[Koldawne]

My dad may be able to help a bit with that. He works for IBM so he probably knows a bunch of different people. Maybe I'll have him tell them about the time I pranked my mom's computer so well he couldn't figure it out and thought it had a virus.

rofl.. depends on how they would react.

 

[xforeverxmetalx]

Time for that one class where I finally get to find out how I did on that test ages ago.

*mentally crossing fingers*

 

[xforeverxmetalx]

And... it's good. Not great, but good. I'll take it.

 

[xforeverxmetalx]

And... it's good. Not great, but good. I'll take it.

Would have been great if I didn't get a decent chunk taken out for not showing all the steps in my work. Oh well.

 

[Quark]

And... it's good. Not great, but good. I'll take it.

Like you have a choice?

 

[xforeverxmetalx]

Like you have a choice?

Of course I do. If I don't like my grade, I just tell them, and they fix it.

 

[Quark]

Of course I do. If I don't like my grade, I just tell them, and they fix it.

Jaja!
En ik moet dat geloven.
Dan heb je nu een 1! (op 10)

 

[xforeverxmetalx]

Today was hair day. I got a haircut, and then decided it was as good a time as any to redye the underside of my hair black. The haircut looked good; curious to see what it'll look like with the black.