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Big Phoenix

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Degrees in film are absolutely pointless. If my situation were different, I would be skipping the BA and just going straight to work. But my dad has offered to completely pay for my college and pay for my room & board, so I can use college as an opportunity to find and make some good connections.
Uhh why not take that money and instead produce some content?
 
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What area of Film are you interested in?

My general advice is usually to go school and get your degree.

If you want to work on the business side of things, no network/studio will take you serious without at least a BA.

And if you suck at Film, then you can always try to leverage your experience and your degree into some other field.
 

Kriptini

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Uhh why not take that money and instead produce some content?
Because that's not the deal being offered to me.

What area of Film are you interested in?

My general advice is usually to go school and get your degree.

If you want to work on the business side of things, no network/studio will take you serious without at least a BA.

And if you suck at Film, then you can always try to leverage your experience and your degree into some other field.
Narrative film editing.
 

Kriptini

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Gotcha.

How much do you actually know about the industry?

Do you already have connections in the industry?
Don't have very many at all. My most promising connection got laid off from the studio he was gonna hire me at, so I'm sort of in limbo now in that regard.
 

Brahma

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They are changing their practices. They realize that Cisco is on their tail. Plus everyone is now hip to the "license" games they play.
 

skrala

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They are changing their practices. They realize that Cisco is on their tail. Plus everyone is now hip to the "license" games they play.
On their tail in what regards, I thought Cisco was already winning the UC game? Don't mean that as a criticism, honestly curious what you mean.
 

Brahma

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Do you work for Avaya or one of their business partners?
I used to work for them directly out of NJ as one of their call center and IVR engineers. Now I work for a company. Not a business partner.

I'm done with that traveling bull shit.
 

Brahma

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On their tail in what regards, I thought Cisco was already winning the UC game? Don't mean that as a criticism, honestly curious what you mean.
They are probably slightly ahead in the unified communications piece because everyone has Cisco for their network backbone. And lets be honest, Cisco can tie everything together very nicely most times, and Avaya just seems to jury rig a lot of their shit.

But they just aren't even close to Avaya on the call center side. They just don't offer the features and the robust statistical analysis that Avaya gives out the box.

Because of that huge leg up in call center applications and the investments (I mean close to like 100 million) in legacy equipment that these large corporations have...they stick with Avaya.
 

Tarrant

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Can you tell me why when I log out of Avaya that I have to remember to hit the stupid physical button on the phone too? I always forget and then get my ass chewed. If I log out in the system itself then fuck off phone. -ugh-
 

Mist

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Are you talking about logging out of One-X on your PC not logging you out of your IP phone as well?

One-X desktop software is fucking garbage.
 

Cad

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What the fuck is Avaya and why do you all know what it is and I don't