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Is school REALLY that important or useful? (pg. 20)
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| EricB. |
| nou dont you have a rifle of vanquishing to script for Sgt. Slaughter and his army of mercenary action figures? |
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| EricB. |
| quote: | Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
I finished a number of major projects while I was working there.
The last one I finished is used by thousands of people every month for the King County Commuter Van service to manage their tracking of drivers and volunteer accountants. |
you mean a calculator? i scripted that in VB on my first day of computer science in COLLEGE! lol |
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| Schadenfreude |
| you could always sleep your way to the top. |
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| ziptnf |
| Nou, everyone's skills get better in the workplace, including mine. I wouldn't be making stacks from PHP and Java development if it weren't for my job, but the piece of paper which I will be receiving soon will tell my boss that I should be getting paid more stacks. The second piece of paper I get next year (masters) will tell him that he needs to pay me a ton of stacks, else I find another job that will. If I just said " it" like you and coasted by, I would be making half the stacks that I would be with a masters degree. Crystal clear enough for you? |
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| Danny Ocean |
| quote: | Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
I finished a number of major projects while I was working there.
The last one I finished is used by thousands of people every month for the King County Commuter Van service to manage their tracking of drivers and volunteer accountants. |
well good for you! |
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| EricB. |
and whats really going in the nou household right now...
"NOU SWEETIE I MADE YOU PEANUT BUTTER SANDWHICHES FOR LUNCH! ITS TIME TO EAT PUMPKIN"
" YOU YOU STUPID IN BITCH IM DEFENDING OUR FAMILYS NAME! DID YOU AT LEAST CUT OFF THE IN CRUST!?!?"
"YES DEAR!JUST THE WAY YOU LIKE IT!"
"COMING! ! "
| quote: | Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
Now if you excuse me I have to go get ready for class. |
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| LeopoldStotch |
| quote: | Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
Anyway, I came into the job I had knowing Perl, PHP, JS, and healthy bit of C/C++. My PHP skills, in my first 6 months working there became instantly better. Waaay way way better. I continued to work on Perl as a maintainer on some pretty nasty cluster projects, and I did enough JS helping the front end people to get pretty solid at it, at least much better than when I came into the job. Didn't really use a lot of my C skills though.
But anyway, by the end of my first year I was also maintain VBS (die in a fire) sites, VB sites, and was coding, with out having ever touched it before an entire backend management system for a physicians network in ASP.Net 2.0 (also die in a fire please) in C#.
By the end of my career there I was coding desktop applications in Flex (AS3) which also can die in a fire, but was still something totally new.
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i'm happy that you were able to learn and get your hands on all of that in your previous job, but seriously can you provide me an example where you can have that same opportunity to learn stuff on the fly without getting in trouble / being the weak link in a group in a Fortune 500 company? i don't know if you want to work for a Fortune 500 company in the future ............ |
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| Joss Weatherby |
| quote: | Originally posted by LeopoldStotch
i'm happy that you were able to learn and get your hands on all of that in your previous job, but seriously can you provide me an example where you can have that same opportunity to learn stuff on the fly without getting in trouble / being the weak link in a group in a Fortune 500 company? i don't know if you want to work for a Fortune 500 company in the future ............ |
Unless I am running that fortune 500... :p
No. Seriously. I do not want to do work for other people again. I want to try going it alone (as in running my own company).
If I need to end up hiring other people with more experience to do the managerial part of it then so be it, thats what I will need to do. I do feel though that I have enough experience to at least start now. I worked professionally for three years, and I did freelance work, often directly with clients for 4-5 years before that. I've been managing this personal project as well, taking the lead developer role and also tasking out work and handling PR. |
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| Joss Weatherby |
| quote: | Originally posted by EricB.
you mean a calculator? i scripted that in VB on my first day of computer science in COLLEGE! lol |
No it was a bull system that had to connect over VPN to their offices, grab a ing access file which they had been using for the last 10 years, parse out that to our data storage on another server, manipulate the data by the users doing whatever they needed to do then go back and update their access file again.
It was a total cluster because it was all based around parts that shouldnt have been done how they were done in the first place (getting a degree in DBA doesn't mean you know what you are doing).
It was like the whole Apollo 13 with the CO2 filters... LOL. |
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| enydo |
| quote: | Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
Unless I am running that fortune 500... :p
No. Seriously. I do not want to do work for other people again. I want to try going it alone (as in running my own company).
If I need to end up hiring other people with more experience to do the managerial part of it then so be it, thats what I will need to do. I do feel though that I have enough experience to at least start now. I worked professionally for three years, and I did freelance work, often directly with clients for 4-5 years before that. I've been managing this personal project as well, taking the lead developer role and also tasking out work and handling PR. |
Hahahahahahahahahahaha. |
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| Schadenfreude |
| this thread is now about massive erect objects. |
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| couch-potato |
| Pretty clever how Nou uses these threads as a means to tell us about his life. |
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