Not every coding job can be cool like Game Developers. I work at a travel agency writing Booking Engine software (orbitz, expedia, etc).

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Originally posted by ziptnf Not every coding job can be cool like Game Developers. I work at a travel agency writing Booking Engine software (orbitz, expedia, etc).

Yea... I know what you mean... I have a bunch of game ideas, but ideas are cheap...

I'll go back to running my head over whether I am wasting my time trying to avoid an RDBMS with an XML data system...

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Originally posted by Joss Weatherby Yea... I know what you mean... I have a bunch of game ideas, but ideas are cheap...

Do I smell a collaboration?

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Originally posted by ziptnf Do I smell a collaboration?

Heh, probably not, I am already collaborating on....... 3 seperate business plans with 3 seperate people...

I decided to fuck my own CMS right now and go with http://silverstripe.org/silverstripe-cms/

BSD License for the mudafuggin win!

Now I can focus on the fucking creative and fun part of doing web developement and blah blah blah besides writing hundreds of thousands of lines of code myself!

Are you a freelance software developer? That may explain all the lame jobs you have to do. It's all good you're probably making lots of dough.

Has anyone played the game yet?

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Originally posted by ziptnf Are you a freelance software developer? That may explain all the lame jobs you have to do. It's all good you're probably making lots of dough. Has anyone played the game yet?

If I get a chance to boot up my windows machine today I will try and instal it.

I worked for a professional development company for 3 years but they sucked, things fell apart in my relationship with managment. I wanted out, they wanted me out, they said quit or be fired, and I said fire!

It was a small company, lots of politics, and they wouldn't listen to their employees suggestions on how to save their company...

Before that I was freelance, and now I guess I am freelance again but want to have more of a solid identity.

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Question for both of you...

How boring is your job?

I am just finishing a 4 year IT degree, and tbh I really liked it at first, but man it got old fast.

I am actually working on a RDBMS right now for one of my final projects, and I can't see myself staying sane creating theses things full time. What is the pay like and how skilled were you when you started, I for example cant help but feel my degree has given me the bare essentials and there is so so so much more to learn.

Could you just gimme a rought guide to an average day/week for you?

the pro and cons, etc?

would appreciate.

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Originally posted by Lunar Phase 7 Question for both of you... How boring is your job? I am just finishing a 4 year IT degree, and tbh I really liked it at first, but man it got old fast. I am actually working on a RDBMS right now for one of my final projects, and I can't see myself staying sane creating theses things full time. What is the pay like and how skilled were you when you started, I for example cant help but feel my degree has given me the bare essentials and there is so so so much more to learn. Could you just gimme a rought guide to an average day/week for you? the pro and cons, etc? would appreciate.

i've been in many ends of the spectrum. There's the good and bad side of the spectrum. The good side is consistent exciting work where it's a fast paced environment, always steady, and along the way while you're working, you get to learn new material. Then there's the bad, where the work is just f'n mundane, and you feel you are just wasting your life sitting in front of the computer.

Since it sounds like you are about to graduate from university, I feel your pain man. I have had the same feeling when i came out of university, and wondered what the hell I was going to do. To be open, the IT is so vast now that you can practically pick and choose which area of expertise you want to specialize in. Options include Network Engineering, Architect, Developer, Manager, Modeler, Designer, and much more. You get paid fairly well in all positions, and of course paid more for more of a seniority role.

Hopefully you are not looking for the big paycheck being in the IT field. If so, you are just going to have a miserable life, because your focus will not be on the quality of your work. I think the one of the key things you will learn when working professionally is code sharing, and the ability to integrate code with team members. Sure there are many other things you will need to learn, but I think the first most is teamwork code integration. Once you get that down, everything goes easy for you at your job.


hopefully that helps you out.

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Originally posted by LeopoldStotch Sure there are many other things you will need to learn, but I think the first most is teamwork code integration. Once you get that down, everything goes easy for you at your job.

something that cannot be stressed enough! unfortunately most CS courses spend hardly anytime on this, and other related topics such as version control, integration, testing and so on. can lead to alot of friction among team members some times, as i learned the hard way heh.

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Originally posted by LeopoldStotch i've been in many ends of the spectrum. There's the good and bad side of the spectrum. The good side is consistent exciting work where it's a fast paced environment, always steady, and along the way while you're working, you get to learn new material. Then there's the bad, where the work is just f'n mundane, and you feel you are just wasting your life sitting in front of the computer. Since it sounds like you are about to graduate from university, I feel your pain man. I have had the same feeling when i came out of university, and wondered what the hell I was going to do. To be open, the IT is so vast now that you can practically pick and choose which area of expertise you want to specialize in. Options include Network Engineering, Architect, Developer, Manager, Modeler, Designer, and much more. You get paid fairly well in all positions, and of course paid more for more of a seniority role. Hopefully you are not looking for the big paycheck being in the IT field. If so, you are just going to have a miserable life, because your focus will not be on the quality of your work. I think the one of the key things you will learn when working professionally is code sharing, and the ability to integrate code with team members. Sure there are many other things you will need to learn, but I think the first most is teamwork code integration. Once you get that down, everything goes easy for you at your job. hopefully that helps you out.

Cheers pal.

I just really find the work shit tbh, and worse still I feel as though I don't know anything on the grand scale, I mean like you spend hour upon hours developing some system and are well happy with it. Then you look at something else and are like fuck... how they do that?!

I don't want to be one of those guys who just eats sleeps and breathe coding. That just isn't me, I cant sit in front of a pc for 18 hours a day. I get certified as a Microsoft Professional at the end of my course for Managing and Maintaining a Network in Windows Server 2003 environment, and yet I still cant help people when Windows fucking Vista wont work with their wireless router.

I used to think teaching was a shit idea, but now it looks like the easier option tbh, I don't wanna live my job.

Did anyone else feel like this post grad?

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Nothing lasts, nothing lasts, everything is changing into something else. Nothing is wrong, nothing is wrong, everything is on track...

You know, William Blake said... uh, nothing is lost. Nothing is lost and I... I really believe that, we only move on...