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You could probably find someone online and do Zoom meetings
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IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.
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Because when I show them the little bits of chicken shit I've been able to put together, they tell me it looks like more than they know how to do.
One coworker really did know python well and he's the one that got me going with using Survey123. He could actually code, but he left to go work for another company 2 years ago because he hated his project manager.
The_Black_Log Foler
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You’re problem is the idea of getting there quickly. Programming is something you continuously hammer away at. There’s so single point you can just jump to really quick. You just gotta put in the time actually doing it. Boot camps are a waste of money. $25 a month teamtreehouse.com
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You got way further down the dev-stack than I'm familiar with, so I asked a friend.
His short answer was your method should work (userid on your side) you just need to make sure the userid isn't changed/set outside of login, and I lost the rest of his reply and then we started talking about thots.
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BrotherWu
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Chuck Severance has a "Python for Everybody" set of courses on Coursera that are really good. If you've already learned languages, it would probably be faster to just jump in and Stack Overflow your way through your first project but if you have less programming experience it's a great start.
I've been working remotely (Embedded Software) for a fairly stable startup for a little over a year. It's been okay but I am seeing lots of companies willing to pay high west coast salaries for remote workers regardless of location so I turned on my "open to work" flag on LinkedIn only to find it has been infested with spamming Indians. I knew Monster had gone to the shitter but this is annoying. I'd say about 1 in 10 seem to be a legit recruiter and/or work directly for the company.
I've been working remotely (Embedded Software) for a fairly stable startup for a little over a year. It's been okay but I am seeing lots of companies willing to pay high west coast salaries for remote workers regardless of location so I turned on my "open to work" flag on LinkedIn only to find it has been infested with spamming Indians. I knew Monster had gone to the shitter but this is annoying. I'd say about 1 in 10 seem to be a legit recruiter and/or work directly for the company.
Frenzied Wombat
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Anybody know a good online source for finding consultants/contractors for infrastructure and systems' management work? I can find a *ton* of websites for Development work, but can't seem to find shit for actual system admins.
Basically I've got too many clients/environments to manage with my existing team and can't find jack shit locally in terms of a qualified full time hire, and in all honesty I need more key-man loss coverage for certain systems, and project/burstable style work that is better suited to a few external consultants on retainer + hourly. Physical location doesn't matter.
To give you an idea, I'm ideally looking for:
- An Avaya IP office admin, preferably with RHEL knowledge to manage the full stack
- An AWS/Azure admin, with a focus on VM management, networking, and security
Anybody with these specific skillsets for special projects:
- Network diagramming and documentation
- Information Security/BCP documentation
- Windows Defender ATP guru
Basically I've got too many clients/environments to manage with my existing team and can't find jack shit locally in terms of a qualified full time hire, and in all honesty I need more key-man loss coverage for certain systems, and project/burstable style work that is better suited to a few external consultants on retainer + hourly. Physical location doesn't matter.
To give you an idea, I'm ideally looking for:
- An Avaya IP office admin, preferably with RHEL knowledge to manage the full stack
- An AWS/Azure admin, with a focus on VM management, networking, and security
Anybody with these specific skillsets for special projects:
- Network diagramming and documentation
- Information Security/BCP documentation
- Windows Defender ATP guru
TJT
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Starting a second consultant gig working for big tech as a contractor in addition to my other consulting job at a healthcare company and my primary salaried position at another smaller tech company.
All fully remote and I am getting $100 an hour at the healthcare one and $150 an hour at big tech. Doing basically the same shit (backend/data engineering) at all 3 places except at my primary full-time place it's only half my job and the other half is developing shit for Salesforce. Estimating I spend actually around 40 hours working for all of them combined. But bill for 20+ at the consulting places regardless.
I've only been consulting for 1.5 years. It really picks up steam quickly.
All fully remote and I am getting $100 an hour at the healthcare one and $150 an hour at big tech. Doing basically the same shit (backend/data engineering) at all 3 places except at my primary full-time place it's only half my job and the other half is developing shit for Salesforce. Estimating I spend actually around 40 hours working for all of them combined. But bill for 20+ at the consulting places regardless.
I've only been consulting for 1.5 years. It really picks up steam quickly.
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It is illegal for you to take the same hour and bill it two separate companies. If you are salaried, your expectation of work is exclusive with that company during the allocated time. They are paying you for that time, they are paying you benefits based on the expectation of work /time committed.
If you work half a day on the fulltime company, stop working on it, then fire up the consulting gig, and work on it, then you are defrauding the full time company.
No one is going to get you, because it is impossible to show you were doing it. But it is still not kosher to do it.
There is also a bunch of complications with copyright law and the code you are creating.
Who does the code you are creating belong to when you are full time, but during regular work hours, you are doing your gig job?
It is not illegal for you to have no sleep and work non stop, but that is not what you are describing here. You are describing packing 3 jobs into a regular work week schedule, while still having one full time job.
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Mist
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I take it it's an IP Office Server edition? Throw it away and migrate to Avaya Cloud Office if you're absolutely intent on being stuck with Avaya.
Are you looking for an individual or an MSP? Any decently qualified MSP will take over your Azure/network/security management. A few of them will even manage your telecom shit, though I can certainly recommend one NOT to go with.
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Yeah, bullshit.
I finish all of my responsibilities and tasks within the time I am given. I can do whatever the fuck I want with the remaining time.
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It doesn't matter if you do it on your home PC, it is still your fulltime job's intellectual property, anything that you do programming wise during the time you are hired. I don't get why is this hard. They pay you for 35-40 hours a week, you collect a check that is directly tied to that.
I guess you are rationalizing this pretty hard.
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