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Crone

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I'll be in this thread a lot more very soon. My company is closing shop in my city, and offering relocation to one of the other 4 cities we have service centers in. Not taking them up on it, and selling our home, and moving to Portland OR area.

I've been in this corporate job for 7 years, and prior to this was stupid jobs, and family business, so my experience is in finance/financial services. I hate the industry though, even if it does pay well and great benefits.

I hope I can get up to Portland and find a job that I will enjoy working in! Anyone hiring a nerd up in Portland? haha

Finding a new job is pretty scary. I stumbled onto this one from a job fair. Been a long while since I've had to search for anything. Almost don't even know where to begin, but will just start submitting on the job sites. The toughest part is trying to figure out what I even want to do I suppose.
 
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Crone_sl said:
I'll be in this thread a lot more very soon. My company is closing shop in my city, and offering relocation to one of the other 4 cities we have service centers in. Not taking them up on it, and selling our home, and moving to Portland OR area.

I've been in this corporate job for 7 years, and prior to this was stupid jobs, and family business, so my experience is in finance/financial services. I hate the industry though, even if it does pay well and great benefits.

I hope I can get up to Portland and find a job that I will enjoy working in! Anyone hiring a nerd up in Portland? haha

Finding a new job is pretty scary. I stumbled onto this one from a job fair. Been a long while since I've had to search for anything. Almost don't even know where to begin, but will just start submitting on the job sites. The toughest part is trying to figure out what I even want to do I suppose.
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Set up a good LinkedIn profile and post a professional level resume to it -- I have had several head-hunters approach me through this channel. If you haven't done a resume in a while, make sure you get feedback from someone who has (hell if you want, I will take a look at it for you) because the number of bad resumes I have seen even from highly educated, highly skilled people looking for professional jobs is staggering and nothing SCREAMS poor attention to detail like a spelling mistake or crappy grammar on a resume!
 
Deathwing

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Just curious, when you mean "post a resume", you mean copy-paste as best you can into their janky history and experience page? Because I would love to directly post my clean and nicely formatted word/pdf resume directly to LinkedIn, but I can't find a way to do that.
 
Raign

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Shitty interface, sadly. That said, if you apply for a job through LinkedIn you can attach your flashy 'real' resume as part of that interface.
 
Crone

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Raign_sl said:
Set up a good LinkedIn profile and post a professional level resume to it -- I have had several head-hunters approach me through this channel. If you haven't done a resume in a while, make sure you get feedback from someone who has (hell if you want, I will take a look at it for you) because the number of bad resumes I have seen even from highly educated, highly skilled people looking for professional jobs is staggering and nothing SCREAMS poor attention to detail like a spelling mistake or crappy grammar on a resume!
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Good idea. I get on the site maybe once a month or less, and have updated a few things, but will put a lot more work into it in the coming months so I can prepare for getting a new job.

Thanks for the tip!
 
TrollfaceDeux

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Anyone working in the electronic (telephone cable trlecommunication ) field? Mostly outside work.
 
Heylel

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Well now. I took the day off because I'm way over my maximum rollover vacation for the year and it's going into a long weekend... and I just got a letter saying I received a 5% merit raise. Totally unexpected.

5% isn't much, but it made my day.
 
Bondurant

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Ronaan_sl said:
Those 30k Euros before or after tax and social security? If before, it sounds low for the risk involved. If it's cash in hand, it sounds decent.

Also, the French are pretty serious about their language it seems. I was in the Avignon area in 1992 and english got usnowhereon the street. Four years of school French had to make do. Would have preferred to use the 8 years of school English but they wouldn't let me.
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30k before tax. Tax income in France for a 30k salary would be like ~2k. It's not high risk wise but I'd say it's decent since public service in France grants some interesting perks. Also yeah I was joking about the no English policy, but here it's frowned upon to speak anything than French. We're so arrogant we want everyone to speak French rather than us learning English (which is dumb because it's way more easy learning english than french).
 
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civil engineer/land surveyor/autocad junkie. Been doing this in the family business with my dad since I was about 8. Never thought I would end up doing this for a living when I was18.... Thirty years in the business, I mostly do the plans now, since I am better than every one else in the company. We do a lot of work in Boston for people updating their buildings.. Last year we did about 25% or so of all bwsc(Boston water and sewer commission) plans.. This year-so far we are doing about2-3 a week.. At about 2k per job. I make ~65 k a year. But I am planning on taking the P. L. S. Exam in the next year and once I pass I will be getting about a 30 k a year raise.
 
Jx3

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So I think I dun goofed.

I'll be student teaching starting in August and I was worried about having money. I can't do what do now (ON CSM at Wal-Mart) and student teach. So after talking to the girlfriend I took Walmart up on their offer of being their evening shift CSM (6-10/11). That still gives me some money instead of the none I was going to get.

The part I'm worried about is if maybe I'm taking too much on? I've never student taught. I mean I've done observations and taught some lessons. Quite honestly I'm not sure if I'm going to be making all of the lessons or if my supervising teacher is going to just hand me a lesson plan book and say do this. I've met with the teacher and he seems pretty chill. A lot of this may just be nervousness due to the fact that school/meetings etc. starts in little over a month.
 
McCheese

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Are you student teaching every day? I'm kind of doing the reverse of you: I work a 9 - 5 job and then teach from 6 to 10. However, I teach in a college setting which requires a hell of a lot less energy, prep time, and grading time than a public school. Even still, towards the end of each semester I'm pretty damn worn out and exhausted, so I'm not sure how well you're going to feel dealing with those animals every day and then dealing with more animals at Walmart every evening. For your sake, I hope you don't have to do a lot of grading and prep!
 
nuday

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Jx3_sl said:
So I think I dun goofed.

I'll be student teaching starting in August and I was worried about having money. I can't do what do now (ON CSM at Wal-Mart) and student teach. So after talking to the girlfriend I took Walmart up on their offer of being their evening shift CSM (6-10/11). That still gives me some money instead of the none I was going to get.

The part I'm worried about is if maybe I'm taking too much on? I've never student taught. I mean I've done observations and taught some lessons. Quite honestly I'm not sure if I'm going to be making all of the lessons or if my supervising teacher is going to just hand me a lesson plan book and say do this. I've met with the teacher and he seems pretty chill. A lot of this may just be nervousness due to the fact that school/meetings etc. starts in little over a month.
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If it's anything like my student teaching, it's all what you want it to be. If you want to do the majority of the lesson planning, you will. If you want to teach pre-planned stuff, you will. Etc.
 
TJT

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Where do you work?
General Motors

What do you do? (Title/keywords)
Software Developer - Mostly for internal Finance applications these days.

What field/industry?
IT/Automobile Manufacturing/Finance

Wages?
90k

Bonuses/SEP?
Like $5-10k... depends on some real fuzzy logic. Not sure how its decided.. but they call it "profit sharing."

Benefits?
Full health, dental, vision. 401k 6% contribution... 30 days paid time off/year and most national holidays off.
 
Crone

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TJT_sl said:
Where do you work?
General Motors

What do you do? (Title/keywords)
Software Developer - Mostly for internal Finance applications these days.

What field/industry?
IT/Automobile Manufacturing/Finance

Wages?
90k

Bonuses/SEP?
Like $5-10k... depends on some real fuzzy logic. Not sure how its decided.. but they call it "profit sharing."

Benefits?
Full health, dental, vision. 401k 6% contribution... 30 days paid time off/year and most national holidays off.
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Bad ass!! IT jobs seem to pay so well. I hate myself every day for not finding IT stuff all that entertaining, and just not biting the bullet anyway to get an IT degree.
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Raign

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TJT_sl said:
Where do you work?
General Motors

What do you do? (Title/keywords)
Software Developer - Mostly for internal Finance applications these days.

What field/industry?
IT/Automobile Manufacturing/Finance

Wages?
90k

Bonuses/SEP?
Like $5-10k... depends on some real fuzzy logic. Not sure how its decided.. but they call it "profit sharing."

Benefits?
Full health, dental, vision. 401k 6% contribution... 30 days paid time off/year and most national holidays off.
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Nice, I worked for GM in eCommerce for years (well GMAC specifically before it was sold off). I really enjoyed working for them, sucks that the market has really turned against them these last few years :/
 
TJT

TJT

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I have a feeling that GM will be returning strong in the next 5 or so years. The vehicles made after the reorganization of the company are of much higher quality than they were before. It didn't make the news so much but the 2013 models took 9 of the international quality awards from Toyota. Which isn't something that happens often. Toyota has won the majority of those for decades.

The ignition crap and all of the other bad press just means that investing may be a good idea. But IDK, I am so far removed from the actual business its hard to say.
 
Cad

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TJT_sl said:
I have a feeling that GM will be returning strong in the next 5 or so years. The vehicles made after the reorganization of the company are of much higher quality than they were before. It didn't make the news so much but the 2013 models took 9 of the international quality awards from Toyota. Which isn't something that happens often. Toyota has won the majority of those for decades.

The ignition crap and all of the other bad press just means that investing may be a good idea. But IDK, I am so far removed from the actual business its hard to say.
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People have been saying "the new American cars are much higher quality than before!" since the 80's at least. Probably before that. And they're maybe right, but the other brands improve too.
 
Deathwing

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I like how you dismiss killing people as "ignition crap" and "bad press". What has GM done recently that makes you think they are trending positively?
 
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