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Recent Grads and Experience Beyond the Desktop?

over_exposed asks: "I'm a recent college grad (B.S. in C.S.) and have been on the job hunt for about 6 months. I've been playing around with tech toys as long as I can remember, but it all focuses around the desktop environment. Desktop-grade routers, switches and wireless as well as any/all desktop PC (and some Mac) hardware is what I could get my hands on with my limited budget. After looking through hundreds if not thousands of job postings, everyone is looking for 3+ years of network admin experience or 5+ years of C++ experience even for an entry level position. How is one expected to gain that kind of experience when no one will hire you without the experience? What kind of (part-time) work can you get as a college student to gain experience (Cisco, Exchange, SQL, etc) that will be marketable in the real world? Any suggestions from the Slashdot community will be of great benefit to myself and thousands of others who will enter the 'real world' in the next few years."

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  1. JOIN TEH MILITRY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Newcomer Lynndie England in the sequel to Lynndie Does Baghdad:

    Iraqui Investigations (2004)

    featuring:

    Lynndie England as Private Plowme

    Dick "Head" Cheyney as General Boner
    Filthy towelheads as gay niggers

    DVD-Rip

    --

    Comments about Lynndie's performance:

    Abu Ghraib "victim" Lynndie England's defense is getting shaky. Congress just saw a bunch of photos of Private England, ass-naked, having sex with a wide assortment of unusually desperate or possibly blind GI's. Guess we can dismiss her wide-eyed "I was forced to pose" exclamations. Congress may be stupid enough to believe your superiors forced you to humiliate Iraqis. I doubt they will believe you if you claim you were ordered to pose cracking for your coworkers.

    Call me cynical, Private England, but a critical person could conceivably conclude that you're a disgusting piece of white trash with the morals of a goat in heat.

    In fact, Private England's new photos cast doubt on claims that her intentions toward the Iraqi prisoners were always hostile. The new material shows her making the beast with two backs (or in her case, the beast with one and a half brains) in front of her charges. It's starting to look like at least part of the time, this little slut was trying to entertain the prisoners. So maybe we shouldn't think of Private England as a sadist. Maybe, in her own little way, she thought of herself as a humanitarian. While the rest of the military went after the Iraqis' hearts and minds, Private England made a play for their willies.

    I really don't get it. Generally, it's not hard for women--even homely ones--to get laid. Ordinarily, they don't have to join the Army and fly to Iraq to get action. It's a simple matter of walking from your trailer to the nearest roadhouse. Or in the case of people with Private England's level of class, to your brother's bedroom.

    What a funny time we live in, when skeezes have such power over international affairs. Supposedly, the fat, vacuous Monica Lewinsky was indirectly responsible for a bombing campaign. Now a uniformed tramp threatens to take down the Secretary of Defense and give the Muslim world an excuse to unleash its poorly concealed hatred of the West.

    Neither one of these women have the brains God gave a goose, but look at their influence on the world. I suppose in a way, it's a lesson for people who say the sexual morality of public servants is irrelevant to their fitness for duty.

    This pig needs a stretch in Leavenworth, and so do the men who posed with her. And just to be safe, they should put a combination lock on her pants so she can't do for Leavenworth what she did for Abu Ghraib.