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Erronius

Erronius

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One of the more difficult things I am dealing with is that before I went back to school I wasn't really employable, and now that I am moving from CC to a 4-year there are tons of jobs that I could go out and get. Sure, they aren't 6 figure a years jobs, but they're good blue collar jobs. A lot of industry is moving to my area and they can't find people with basic schooling or experience. For example, the head of our Tech department was telling me that there are companies who could hire a total of a few hundred people with basic Autocad certificates/degrees yesterday. A lot of assembly plants and factories are opening up and need maintenance personnel desperately. A guy fromYanfengwas at school recruiting yesterday for their new facility in Riverside...their pay was kinda shitty unless you're straight out of High School IMHO (think it was $18-$23/hour) but for someone who just got a certificate or Associates degree, it probably wouldn't be a bad gig to start out and get a year or two of experience.

It is nice knowing that should I decide to stop with college I'll be employable, but it does kinda suck having people coming up to me on a daily/weekly basis to tell me about a job I could easily walk into but I have to say no because I'm not looking for full time work right now. It's especially annoying considering that the entire reason I went back to school in the first place was to make myself employable.

Prob going to see if I can grind through BA/Masters over the next few years and then maybe look for offshore/overseas work that pays a fuckton, unless something comes along that is too good to pass up.
 
Erronius

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AAS for Industrial Electrical Maintenance
AAS for Instrumentation and Process Controls*
AAS for Computer/Electronics Tech*

* I'm only like 1-2 classes away from both, and I don't want to put off BSEE just to finish those. They will give me 'reverse-credit' (for lack of a better term) for C++ for the two AAS once I do some of the BSEE programming (it's less structured they tell me and more stuff like matlab and engineering related programming). I may take the stand-alone C++ on the side at the community college while at the 4-year, but kinda debating if I want to or not.
 
Noodleface

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I ain't no lawyer, we just work until the work is done or we feel like leaving. Technically I can work on the train, but what I'm struggling with is last year the mbta fucked up big time and trains were out of commission for a long time.

The ride honestly is fine. It took me 45 minutes today because I came in at noon. When I fight rush hour Boston traffic iy takes anywhere from 90 to 120 minutes. Thinking about just coming in really early.
 
Borzak

Borzak

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I used to commute 120 minutes, but it was 100 miles and 75 most of the way. I got a lot of mental work done on the way to work and phone calls checking in with the field.
 
chaos

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My contract is up in Feb, just found out today it looks like they are extending it out a year. Thank god, I have no desire to find another job right now and I'm not where I want to be when that happens. I was reading some shit today and I realized, what I need is a career mentor. I am doing ok on my own but I thinkI need someone in infosec to look me over, so I'm going to be trying for that.
 
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chaos_sl said:
My contract is up in Feb, just found out today it looks like they are extending it out a year. Thank god, I have no desire to find another job right now and I'm not where I want to be when that happens. I was reading some shit today and I realized, what I need is a career mentor. I am doing ok on my own but I thinkI need someone in infosec to look me over, so I'm going to be trying for that.
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Swap to GS my friend and leave the contracting world behind.
 
Deruvian

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I started using audible to listen to audio books when my commute became really long. It helped a lot to pass the time, but in general, you do just get used to the length of it to some extent.

Also, that's certainly a downside of working at EMC; I had a co-worker who worked at EMC with her husband, had a house in Grafton and ended up taking a job in the city. The commute killed her and she ended up quitting within six months. Framingham is far as hell from anything normal.
 
Crone

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Have a tech interview in a few minutes for a network engineer job for an ISP. Not sure exactly if that would be my title, but since the staffing agency also placed the manager I would be under I got a cheat sheet of what things are going to be asked. Brushed up on everything and learned some new things like BGP and multicasting.

If all goes well, I move on to a behavioral question type interview and then a meet and greet from there. Here goes nothing!
 
chaos

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a_skeleton_03_sl said:
Swap to GS my friend and leave the contracting world behind.
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Out of all the GSs I work with now, only 3-4 are worth a shit. The rest are literally a masters course in incompetence. Besides, I can't take the pay cut, but taking a 14 or 15 spot would put me in boring non-technical work.
 
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chaos_sl said:
Out of all the GSs I work with now, only 3-4 are worth a shit. The rest are literally a masters course in incompetence. Besides, I can't take the pay cut, but taking a 14 or 15 spot would put me in boring non-technical work.
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Yeah it's a delicate balance. Over GS-11 you get into some space fillers up until about 14/15 and then it's too much paperwork and management type stuff.

I am loving my 12 position.
 
Noodleface

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Got stuck in traffic for 3 hours because a box truck broke down on a 1 Lane bridge in Kendall square. Came home and my wife started bitching at me about stuff I couldn't control and I had the legitimate thought in my head of strangulation.
 
Crone

Crone

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Crone_sl said:
Have a tech interview in a few minutes for a network engineer job for an ISP. Not sure exactly if that would be my title, but since the staffing agency also placed the manager I would be under I got a cheat sheet of what things are going to be asked. Brushed up on everything and learned some new things like BGP and multicasting.

If all goes well, I move on to a behavioral question type interview and then a meet and greet from there. Here goes nothing!
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Did "well enough" to move onto the next interview phase. That's great, just wish the staffing agency wasn't such a dick about the whole process. Although, they did call to clarify their email a bit, which I felt came off pretty bitchy. Relayed to me some feedback that the interviewer had for me, and said that I should consider it an accomplishment to get past this first interview, as quite a few others didn't. Onwards and upwards!
 
Vinen

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Noodlemod_sl said:
Got stuck in traffic for 3 hours because a box truck broke down on a 1 Lane bridge in Kendall square. Came home and my wife started bitching at me about stuff I couldn't control and I had the legitimate thought in my head of strangulation.
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Fucking owned.
Kendall square. Friendly to only those who live in walking or Red Line distance (because fuck green line)

Where did it break down at? You couldn't escape onto 93 via Lechemere area?
 
Lodi

Lodi

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Where do you work?Tencent

What do you do? (Title/keywords)Community Management/Product Management

What field/industry?Mobile Gaming

Thinking about going back to IT. The money is way better and I'm already tired of living in China.
 
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