flippedoutpunk Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Oct 25, 2012 -> 03:42 PM) Also, from a town hall meeting for my IT organization: IT unemployment is down to 1.9% Time to switch the ol' Major i see Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigruss Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 QUOTE (flippedoutpunk @ Oct 25, 2012 -> 03:47 PM) Time to switch the ol' Major i see 140,000 open IT jobs, only 40,000 graduating engineers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soxbadger Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 I dont mix business and online at all. I have no facebook, no linkedin, nothing. If you search my name online you come up with business related things only. Would I judge someone based on the internet of course. The first thing I do when I get a resume is search them online to see how easy I can dig up dirt. I always search opposing counsels to see what I can find. I love knowing more about someone else than they know about me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chw42 Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Oct 25, 2012 -> 03:48 PM) 140,000 open IT jobs, only 40,000 graduating engineers. This is why I tell all of my Electrical Engineering friends to take CS classes or switch to Computer Engineering. Better pay, more opportunities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamshack Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 I work with a lot of good people whose views on other things I absolutely disagree with. To start pretending as if this should be an overriding or critical criteria now I think would exclude a lot of talented people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soxbadger Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 To clarify, I dont care what they think. But part of my job is keeping secrets and not letting other people get damaging information. If they cant do that in their personal life, it makes it difficult for me to believe they can do it in their professional life. I know most people arent has anti-publicity as me, but I like that trait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chw42 Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 25, 2012 -> 03:06 PM) Here's a question: We all have our soxtalk personalities. I know many of you hate my position on Ozzie Guillen and some former Sox players and my style of posting. My question is: If you were a business owner and I applied for a job at your company, would you reject me because of things I post on soxtalk. Just curious to see if this fantasy world message board relates to real life as well. Would Greg be eliminated as a job candidate because of a message board?? Thank u for responding. I wouldn't reject you just because you like Ozzie Guillen. But based on the logic in your arguments regarding Ozzie Guillen, I probably wouldn't hire you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwritecode Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Oct 25, 2012 -> 03:48 PM) 140,000 open IT jobs, only 40,000 graduating engineers. IT is such a wide field though. I can code in 4 or 5 different programming languages and I'm at least familiar with half a dozen more but I could go on a job search site and still find 1,000s of jobs that I'm not qualified for simply because there are still plenty of programming languages I don't know anything about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwritecode Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 QUOTE (chw42 @ Oct 25, 2012 -> 04:06 PM) I wouldn't reject you just because you like Ozzie Guillen. But based on the logic in your arguments regarding Ozzie Guillen, I probably wouldn't hire you. I have a kind of picture in my head of what Greg is like in real life. I know a couple of people IRL that sort of remind me of the way he defends certain topics and asks questions. On the other hand, I could be completely off base. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chw42 Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 (edited) QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Oct 25, 2012 -> 04:15 PM) IT is such a wide field though. I can code in 4 or 5 different programming languages and I'm at least familiar with half a dozen more but I could go on a job search site and still find 1,000s of jobs that I'm not qualified for simply because there are still plenty of programming languages I don't know anything about. This is why I don't like any language higher level than C++ or even Java. Once you get to the scripting languages, or hell, even languages on the same level as Java, there's just way too many. It's not that they're hard to learn. Once you have a basis in any OO language, you can start coding in a day or two. But there's just so many libraries and APIs that are out there. That's why I'm sticking to embedded and OS-related stuff for my job search. Edited October 25, 2012 by chw42 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigruss Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Oct 25, 2012 -> 04:15 PM) IT is such a wide field though. I can code in 4 or 5 different programming languages and I'm at least familiar with half a dozen more but I could go on a job search site and still find 1,000s of jobs that I'm not qualified for simply because there are still plenty of programming languages I don't know anything about. True, you still have to stay versatile in IT, as there is a ton of movement in demand within IT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flippedoutpunk Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Oct 25, 2012 -> 04:19 PM) I have a kind of picture in my head of what Greg is like in real life. This is what I always imagine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigruss Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 QUOTE (flippedoutpunk @ Oct 25, 2012 -> 04:27 PM) This is what I always imagine. If Ozzie was on his lap in front of him then it'd be perfect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwritecode Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 I tried learning C++ once. Except the class was actually "Advanced C++" because I had taken a class for C many years prior. It didn't go well. I've been doing mainframe programming for almost 15 years now and OOP is just different enough that I haven't been able to pick it up yet. I am taking a free online course learning Python and it's going well so far. I'm hoping that if I can get at least one down, learning more won't be so bad. Openings for mainframe programmers are few and far between. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chw42 Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Oct 25, 2012 -> 04:35 PM) I tried learning C++ once. Except the class was actually "Advanced C++" because I had taken a class for C many years prior. It didn't go well. I've been doing mainframe programming for almost 15 years now and OOP is just different enough that I haven't been able to pick it up yet. I am taking a free online course learning Python and it's going well so far. I'm hoping that if I can get at least one down, learning more won't be so bad. Openings for mainframe programmers are few and far between. I learned C++ through my data structures class. That class taught me more about programming than the class I learned C and assembly in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwritecode Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 QUOTE (chw42 @ Oct 25, 2012 -> 04:37 PM) I learned C++ through my data structures class. That class taught me more about programming than the class I learned C and assembly in. I took 1 assembler class because it was required. I'd never touched it prior and have yet to touch it since. In my experience the only people that know and use it are nearing retirement ages. The 2 companies I've worked converted 99% of their assembler programs a long time ago. The C++ class I took was full of guys that had been in IT for years. So the professor kinda flew by a number of things and I had trouble keeping up. Most of what I've learned and use everyday I got from the first programming class I took, which was COBOL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chw42 Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Oct 25, 2012 -> 04:49 PM) I took 1 assembler class because it was required. I'd never touched it prior and have yet to touch it since. In my experience the only people that know and use it are nearing retirement ages. The 2 companies I've worked converted 99% of their assembler programs a long time ago. The C++ class I took was full of guys that had been in IT for years. So the professor kinda flew by a number of things and I had trouble keeping up. Most of what I've learned and use everyday I got from the first programming class I took, which was COBOL. Assembly is still useful for hardware-level OS code. You can't really escape that. Big companies are always looking for people who understand low level software/hardware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justBLAZE Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 QUOTE (2nd_city_saint787 @ Oct 25, 2012 -> 02:38 PM) b****in and moaning on facebook about a job has finally paid off...If I can figure out a way to get a car I'll finally have a full time job making some decent money at a metal shop. good for you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2nd_city_saint787 Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Oct 26, 2012 -> 12:20 AM) good for you! Thanks brotha, I also managed to borrow 800 dollars between 3 people so it's gonna happen...Getting a cheap craigslist car that HOPEFULLY lasts me 2 months while I save for somethin nice. It's a 7 days a week job, is that even legal?? I won't mind it for a few months but I'm def gonna be looking for a security job the whole time I'm there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg775 Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 QUOTE (2nd_city_saint787 @ Oct 26, 2012 -> 04:48 AM) Thanks brotha, I also managed to borrow 800 dollars between 3 people so it's gonna happen...Getting a cheap craigslist car that HOPEFULLY lasts me 2 months while I save for somethin nice. It's a 7 days a week job, is that even legal?? I won't mind it for a few months but I'm def gonna be looking for a security job the whole time I'm there. It's legal but if you work more than 40 hrs make sure you get overtime. What are you going to do at the plant? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kapkomet Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 QUOTE (2nd_city_saint787 @ Oct 25, 2012 -> 11:48 PM) Thanks brotha, I also managed to borrow 800 dollars between 3 people so it's gonna happen...Getting a cheap craigslist car that HOPEFULLY lasts me 2 months while I save for somethin nice. It's a 7 days a week job, is that even legal?? I won't mind it for a few months but I'm def gonna be looking for a security job the whole time I'm there. It's definitely legal and a good way to make some good money on the overtime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2nd_city_saint787 Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 26, 2012 -> 12:45 AM) It's legal but if you work more than 40 hrs make sure you get overtime. What are you going to do at the plant? Ya they pay overtime, just loading and unloading crates of metal products that the plant makes. It's nothing really special, by soxtalk standards anyway at 9 an hour, but its work. At the very least I'll be able to get a car, and then a nicer car out of it while I'm looking for something new. 1145p-815a everyday, I like those hours. I can wake up around 5, have some breakfast, hit up the boxing club, and be back in time to watch the Bulls or whatever prime time TV shows are on that day. It'll be a good way to save up some $$ quick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 QUOTE (2nd_city_saint787 @ Oct 26, 2012 -> 08:21 AM) Ya they pay overtime, just loading and unloading crates of metal products that the plant makes. It's nothing really special, by soxtalk standards anyway at 9 an hour, but its work. At the very least I'll be able to get a car, and then a nicer car out of it while I'm looking for something new. 1145p-815a everyday, I like those hours. I can wake up around 5, have some breakfast, hit up the boxing club, and be back in time to watch the Bulls or whatever prime time TV shows are on that day. It'll be a good way to save up some $$ quick. Congrats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwritecode Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 QUOTE (2nd_city_saint787 @ Oct 25, 2012 -> 11:48 PM) Thanks brotha, I also managed to borrow 800 dollars between 3 people so it's gonna happen...Getting a cheap craigslist car that HOPEFULLY lasts me 2 months while I save for somethin nice. It's a 7 days a week job, is that even legal?? I won't mind it for a few months but I'm def gonna be looking for a security job the whole time I'm there. IIRC, they can't make you work more than 14 days in a row without giving you a day off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuskyCaucasian Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Oct 18, 2012 -> 02:43 PM) It's to be a stage technician (Sound/Video/Lighting/Pyrotechnics) Second interview went great. Should know more in the next two weeks. If I get the job, I get pyrotechnics training... SCORE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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