First Red Hat Academy for High School

FrankBama writes "As a follow-up to the story of a few days ago, Red Hat has started a program in my old hometown. The story's at the News & Record. I love this part '...this training normally would cost more than $10,000. But Weaver students can get Red Hat certification free -- and use it get a job paying more than $30,000 a year right out of high school.'"

Comments

Re:Hopefully they will learn some grammer as well.

[FelixCat]

That will learn me to read my posts before posting.

Although, the word "grammer" is in the Oxford English Dictionary. It's listed as an obsolete form of grammar.

Next time I will use my RedHat certification to invoke to ispell (or aspell) command.

+80 troll

[xao gypsie]

you sir, are an idiot.

xao

I am now king of the dorks

[ostrich2]

CowboyNeal and I are from the same town!
KNEEL BEFORE ME

Re:$30,000 a year Can I have what you are smoking

[puto]

Well, how many people have a degree from harvard Princeton, MIT, Yale? I mean that is not a fair reply. As the URL you posted are salaries offered to MIT graduates. The best of the best but hardly fair numbers to throw at the real world.

Also these days companies will go after the graduates than experienced people. You have to pay the experienced people more.

When you are younger you will take less cash. You are happy to be on the job, doing what you like, you do not think of car, home family, at 21 as you do 35+.

I should have made myself a little clearer as well.

1. In many disciplines it is hard to get a job these days. Not just engineering.
2. Tech is rough right now. You can see the posts on slashdot. Hard to find a job.

I was making 55 in 1996, sitting on my hands bossing script kiddies. Good money in New Orleans then. And as a single guy I was loaded. 3 bedroom apartment cost me a 1000 a month with utils. Plus broadband free. I had about 3 grand a month to burn on booze and broads.

I live in La cause the cost of living is low, and well I like it. Easy going people..

Fast forward 99, bottom falls out. I am working for Verio, making loot. But was disastisfied with the corporate culture. Took a job managing a large bar in the French Quarter. 42 a year. Still decent money, not really a pay cut cause I ate and drank free 5 days a week.

2000 moved to Colombia. Taught English and did tech.

2002 came home. Loafed for a year, did odd tech jobs, got the skills back.

So now I just grabbed a job making 42 a year. Well, three bedroom apartment, nice side of town(small town in La now) 675 a month. Same thing in San Diego 2000 if not more. All told got about 2 grand a month to play with after taxes and rent and food. Work pays for broadband.

So I i pinch the pennies I can save 24k a year. A nice little sum. Wait, my wife works she makes 40. We clip 20 off that to savings. Puts me 44k in the bank.

Oops, I made 25 grand this year doing networks and some retainers off of websites. Thans makes close to 70k we have saved. In one year, and we live high off the hog, wear nice clothes, spoil our selves rotten. From tech friend in Austin, Seattle, and Cali, they come to see me and they got the big jobs with the big names. They tell me my standard of living is 200% better than theirs.

But hell I only make 42k a year, so people on Slashdot can rag me cause of my low end job. And with my extra work I pull in 67 a year. Not too shabby.

I guess my point is that 50k jobs are few and far between upon grad, unless you go to a big name school. And reading big name school salary surveys don't mean shit.

I went to a school with only 7k students in the asshole of the swamp.

Don't mean to rant.

Puto