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after reading and new stores everyday about the tech sector, how is your job?
are you employed(sorry if offensive)? what is your job(programmer, code monkey, sys admin, network b*tch)do you like you job/company? how much do you make(sorry if offensive)? what is your cost of living?
im just trying to see how bad it really is.
what job.... well, I was/am a subcontractor through a rather large company. We do warranty work on nearly every brand of computers, with the exception of Dell and Gateway.
It was doing very, very well. I was working 5 days a week, sometimes there was even too much work forcing us to work Saturday's. It was a very good job. Easy, fun, and paid pretty well, roughly $15/hr though it was a flat per house rate, so some days I could make upwards of $40/hour, some only about $8/hour. My cost of living is ~ $800/month, and I was making a bit more than double that during the good times.
The company we contract out to lost a very large portion of our main contractors, Best Buy. Went from working a little over 200 computers a month, to less than 30...
I'm going in for an interview at Burger King tommorow, and Walmart on Friday.... dear lord this sucks.
I work at home. I'm what you could call tech support / odd-job technician. I basically help my clueless co-workers with simple tasks such as showing them how to adjust resolution or screen savers. When business is going slow here at home, I am assigned to the lawn mower, or weed trimming. A lot of the time I serve as a dog watcher for my boss.
You have co-workers at home? *confused*
im a programmer/research assistant at my university (just for the summer) i get paid pretty well and my job is very interesting. im going into my 3rd year next year.
blackrat> you didn't get the joke. My family are my co-workers, my dad's the evil boss, get it?
I am a software engineer working on Earth stations for satellite control. I liked my company until quite recently. The development of our new generation stations is just about over and they are shortly to begin deploying them arouns the world. Members of the development team were asked to go on site to assist with integration - this was not in our contracts. We were told, you will go, or you can leave. I'm going.
The IT sector is in a big depression right now, so I have no idea when/if I will find something else. Career change maybe.
sorry to ask but why? you said your 1st job is done so you will only be doing the 2nd, is the 2nd that bad?Quote:
We were told, you will go, or you can leave. I'm going.
Are trade unions banned in Denmark or isn't there a good one for software engineers? Throw some bald, fat, loud militants at them :DQuote:
Originally posted by adrianxw
Members of the development team were asked to go on site to assist with integration - this was not in our contracts. We were told, you will go, or you can leave. I'm going.
I just read an article in a newspaper wich told that within 5 years there might be more work in the IT sector then there are ppl to fill in this kind of job.
(notice the <<might>> above)
Not that i totally trust experts but it means something...
I want to study to get a ICT thingy (dunnno the exact word), but my mom is always saying dont study anything in that kind of sector because they are pqving the streets with IT people.
More and more people are going into the IT field, because they see other people getting paid a lot for it. I don't plan on going into IT. My dream job would be to be a programmer at a gaming company, like Bethesda, or Blizzard. I don't want to get into console development too much, although a lot of companies are making games that are cross-platform.
If I can't work at a gaming company, I'd like to work somewhere like nVIDIA.
how about the really nerd jobs, like embeded work? it sounds like theres a zillion visual basic/html guys and lot of a c++-ers what about assembly?
any skills useful? what has worked for you?
with the 5 years part, why wouldnt we need more? the year maybe off alittle but eventually we have to get rid of cobol and make some new assembly programs. im not sure, but what about the basics in some ics(i forgot what its really called, i dont mean microprocesors) or opcodes?
thanks for the replies
I can do basic x86 ASM. The most I've done is a bootloader and a little kernel.
though still a student i have just finished my job as tech support for a university and am starting work next work as technical support and programmer.
you make it sound like its just a little thing!Quote:
The most I've done is a bootloader and a little kernel.
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sorry to ask but why? you said your 1st job is done so you will only be doing the 2nd, is the 2nd that bad?
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The deployment is likely to be very boring. I am a developer, not a customer hand holder. It was also to be on site, in my case Singapore, for a period of at least 3 months. Don't get me wrong, I like Singapore, but I have to many other things going on to be out there for that period.
>>> trade unions banned in Denmark
There are a number of trade unions, all pretty weak. Generally, professional staff are not involved in trade unions.
>>> really nerd jobs, like embeded work?
About 50% of my work is embedded stuff, and so by your definition, "really nerd job". There is trouble in all sectors of IT right now. As for assembler, it is a constant source of amusement to people working in embedded systems that they therefore must be working with assemblers - hell, nobody uses an assembler professionally unless they absolutely have to! The development time is so much shorter with a decent realtime kernel a proper high level language and a decent platform emulator.
o, surry, didnt know. ive done like a whole 6 lines before.......Quote:
hell, nobody uses an assembler professionally unless they absolutely have to!
doent that give you a little job security even if you dont like it? i hear of zillions of vbers but i cant find a collge near me that will teach me assembly, i havnt even seen a assembly for dummies book here.
Ha. Hahaha. Hahahahahahahahahahahaha. Ha. That's funny. Assembly...for dummies. Would you expect a book called "Thermonuclear Physics for Dummies" too?Quote:
assembly for dummies book
Do you know assembly? It really isn't that hard. It just takes a long time to do the simplest things.Quote:
Originally posted by blackrat364
Ha. Hahaha. Hahahahahahahahahahahaha. Ha. That's funny. Assembly...for dummies. Would you expect a book called "Thermonuclear Physics for Dummies" too?
>>> It really isn't that hard. It just takes a long time to do the simplest things.
My point exactly. Well said.
I'm unemployed but I have no skills so I don't really count I guess heh.
im waiting for "breathing for dummies", they have everything.Quote:
Would you expect a book called "Thermonuclear Physics for Dummies" too?