Comments | omarius: Woes

omarius

Woes

Apr 13, 2006 18:10

( Sometimes I can feel my career path tottering beneath me. )

Comments 22

bsdstud April 13 2006, 22:49:44 UTC

PhD's are free, but the work isn't as applied. Not sure if it's your gig or not, but you don't have to pay tuition, and you get a stipend (usually tiny). Bigger stipends are available, but you usually have to pay something into the system research-wise to be a real candidate, or be a hot-shot undergrad, in which case, they don't expect as much from you ( ... )

bsdstud April 13 2006, 22:51:24 UTC

I take that back, a fat stipend DOES look like $250,000... it's just spread out over a long time *grin*

omarius April 14 2006, 18:21:00 UTC

Ha, well that would be bad-ass, but we can't afford to lose a salary right now.

reluctantuser April 13 2006, 23:18:15 UTC

hmm ... i obvoiusly haven't followed your education very closely, but I though you were getting an MS in comp sci when you had classes with certain parents of mine?

omarius April 13 2006, 23:45:21 UTC

No, that was for the CS "cognate discipline" for my MS in Technical and Scientific Communication. If I'd had good sense I probably would have changed to the MS in CS. But nooooo, I wanted to get a cross-discipline Masters, which sounds awesome and is apparantly worth appoximately the calories it takes to type.

skronk April 14 2006, 00:22:06 UTC

The company I work for is looking for network folks. They have no problems with telecommuting, and really want people on the BofA account, so even if you did have to drive in to work you could get office space at the BofA building in Norfolk.

Get Cisco certified and I can pull some strings. My bosses are totally unimpressed with everyone they've been interviewing. All you'd probably need would be a CCNA and me vouching for you. Not sure of salary range, but I'd bet you start at 50K minimum. I do have on call work, but only once every seventeen weeks. I bitch about my job, but it could be much worse.

omarius April 14 2006, 00:40:22 UTC

That's a heck of a lot more than I'm making now. I am totally taking you up on this. I'm going to start studying for my CCNA...now! Should have done it a long time ago.

bobbain April 14 2006, 00:59:03 UTC

Statistically 20 applications for jobs and being rejected for those 20 jobs is about par for the course. This is the number of jobs that job-network members request unemployed job seekers in Australia to apply for in one day.....!!

BTW: I am now contracting for a company and an agency who consistently rejected previous applications.

The nature of IT work is changing. The Australian Computer Society ran a seminar on this. "IT" is no longer a glamour occupation.

alt3r3dr3ality April 14 2006, 05:49:00 UTC

damn and I thought I was something because I built my first PC over 2 years ago...

damn I will be quiet now and go sit in the corner. ;-)

omarius April 14 2006, 18:21:47 UTC

Heck, you knew I was a big nerd when we were in high school! ;)

alt3r3dr3ality April 14 2006, 19:18:26 UTC

yea but you were cool. :-)