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Kriptini
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So over the past month, I've been in email with a representative with a crew director with a film studio to land a position working on post-production for one of their new films. After a month of sending in my resume, reels, and answering essay questions, I've been offered a job. I'll be signing paperwork in January/February and the job will start in late February/March.
I'm going to have to rent out a place close by as the commute would take too much time. This will be my first time living away from my parents for an extended period of time. I'm excited and anxious at the same time. Any tips?
I'm going to have to rent out a place close by as the commute would take too much time. This will be my first time living away from my parents for an extended period of time. I'm excited and anxious at the same time. Any tips?
Noodleface
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It was the Longfellow bridge. It's not normally one Lane but due to construction it is. No breakdown Lane. So.. The truck broke down and I was stuck. Couldn't back up and couldn't go forward or around. Had to wait over an hour for state cops to come by and back traffic out one by one.
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Khane
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Working for the government for anyone who has actual ambition is a fool's errand. Every government project I've worked on was the most mismanaged piece of garbage on earth. Do some work, wait to hear back from people, do a little more work, get told to stop because contracts aren't signed or requirements are changing, sit on my ass, get new requirements, do a little more work, wait again over and over until the project eventually gets shelved or canned completely.
Noodleface
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Really depends on what kind of work you are in. Chaos and I are both in very applied fields and not projects. We work in areas that are no different from any IT job where it's day in and day out. Not a project. I personally am inefficiently used but that is because we have some contracts that are reaching end of life that I reach my full potential when that contract is done.
Khane
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IT is not day in and day out. Well, maybe it's day in and day out if you're helpdesk. Helpdesk is not IT. Real IT and also software development is pretty much entirely project based.
People really don't understand that about software. My wife wonders why I can freely go into the office and leave whenever I want. I just tell her I get my work planned out for the next few weeks and I just have to make sure I get it done within that time frame. They don't care how I do it.
Not infrastructure in my experience. There are VM's to build, links to program, and troubleshooting to be done. There aren't a lot of projects in my area. You have a rare one here and there but overall it's maintain the network and ensure that new additions don't break everything.
Maybe you are classifying "project" as creating a single tunnel in a network?
Khane
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I think we're just arguing semantics here, those individual tasks get grouped into projects at every place I've worked and the bureaucracy surrounding it in the government position I worked at for 2.5 years would shut even simple tasks like building a VM for a new application server completely down.
"Hey guys we need a new service account setup in the QA environment"
"Please submit an RFC and we'll add it to the next release"
Noodleface
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Haha yeah. Today I woke up a little late, got in late. She was in a panic going g "oh my God are they going to be pissed? Will you get in trouble?"
Woman.. My boss comes in after 10am. He does not give a shit what hours we work as long as we deliver product on time. He doesn't care how or why or when I'm working as long as things get done. I don't even have a time card here and we have unlimited time off.
Cad
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I could walk around my office of 60+ lawyers any time of day and 3/4 of the offices will be empty. Normal 9-5 office drones don't understand. ESPECIALLY not govt worker office drones.
Signed my final offer letter. Went from 66k to 87.5k and a gas card (other benefits are pretty much equal), so I'm feeling pretty good!
I've come a long way since $10 an hour back in 2009.
I've come a long way since $10 an hour back in 2009.
Yeah, I'm wondering if that's just any sort of life in a corporation. I feel like I get nothing accomplished because I have to go through 4 layers of bullshit just to troubleshoot a new AP not handing out leases. That exercise is literally going on day 3 because of all the people I need to go through to get it done. I hate it and kinda wish I didn't take this job.