I guess one final thing to consider is what you think of this opportunity.
That's one thing I'm struggling with, the job is a combination of my two favorites things: computing and independent music. The job I'm talking about is for an independent music distributor.
That's kind of what I've been thinking. If I can get enough credits to transfer, I can finish an Associate's Degree in Pre-Business Administration in about 2 years of night classes. After which, the university would allow me to accredit that towards another 2 years as a full-time student in their College of Business to get a Bachelor's degree.
I definitely feel it is important to get a degree, but what I'm facing here is that it's still possible to do so while I'm working in exactly what I love. And the university I am looking at has a 2+2 program which would allow me to accredit my associate's degree hours towards earning a bachelor's degree in the future. That makes it seem much less out of reach. I'm still researching these things, so I'm speaking in theory here, but if it were possible for me to transfer my part of my 36 earned hours of credit already towards an associate's degree than I may very well be able to finish it in less than 2 years. And from there it may be possible to pursue the bachelor's while I work or maybe even take a year off work to get a full 2 semesters of classes in. Again, this is all theoretical until I can gather some more information.
Well that's just the thing. I'm pretty well set where I am now; I work for a company through the university here that finds internships for students around the city. I currently have a placement working with the IS staff at the Miles Kimball catalogue company. And I also maintain the infrastructure at the place that finds me internships. I have a very flexible schedule and can get as many as hours as I want in a week. But the idea of working with OS X all day doing EXACTLY what I do in all my spare time is just so appealing to me.
My financial position is just fine right now. The move would put strain on that because I know I would have to pay out of state tuition for at least a year, if not longer. Which looks like it would cost about $630/credit hour. So, assuming I could take 8hrs per semester, the first year would cost me something like $13,000. That's a little hard to swallow seeing as how I only have to cough up about $4,000/year right now. Although, after becoming a resident of the town, if I can switch tuition rates, it would only cost me $220/credit hour, which is a significant difference. Seeing as how this job is for an independent music distributor and I am only 19, I don't know if the type of salary I would be looking at could really justify the cost of education. And in that case, I think I would have to turn it down, as I really do want to continue my education now.
I was going to do an Ask Slashdot about this, but this topic is somewhat related. So I have a question for those of you with degrees and such that moved into careers: I may have the opportunity to take a Web Development job in another state doing PHP/MySQL work and Mac OS X support. The job description falls squarely into my interests. The problem is, I'm only 19 and finishing my frosh year in college. Would it be worth it to a take a full-time job like this and go to night classes to get an associate's degree? Does anyone here have specific experiences with the difference between earning an associate's and a bachelor's degree in the high tech field?
So explain why P2P file-sharing of illegal mp3s is so popular. The "majority" you speak of would agree with the miniority in that most of the CDs they buy are for 1 or 2 songs they like, and the rest will rarely ever get played. The difference is that they don't know any alternatives, so they are forced to overpay for the 1 or 2 songs they really want.
And nice job throwing in the little bit about/. "crying," you're the first person to say that, really!
It will be interesting to see what happens as(if?) linux gains enough popularity. The distro installers will create a standard account for the user and allow them to set a root password. But I think the difference will come in that the default accounts usually aren't admin-level, unlike Windows. If you asked the average Joe Sixpack Windows user if his account has admin privelages, he'll likely just stare at you in confusion.
I've had TERRIBLE trouble with Renew on 10.2.8. For some reason it would always find about half of what needed updating and then only download updates for half of those before stalling to no end. It looks like it has been updated a few notches since I used it last. How is the stability for you?
Uh....can you say X? Any number of distros? Try giving a Windows user nothing but a DOS terminal to work with, see if he/she can install a wireless card with that (:
I seriously can't help but wonder how much time is spent thinking up long, stupid names that make semi-related acronyms compared to how much time is spent actually putting together a decent proposal.
I support open-source and all, but please don't give its users a bad name. This would be a great "Interesting" or "Informative" post if you had said "My friend uses the OSS kSayIt and he says it works great " and left it at that. You don't need turn it into some rude "I'm better than you because I use OSS" post.
The unfortunate irony of the program was that the kids who were formerly the most obedient in school--ie the geek types--were placed in a position of violating rules left and right if they wanted to set up their computers in a comfortable sort of way with the usual warez etc.
Am I reading this wrong, or are you saying that people who pirate are "good" people?
There would be harm if this company were releasing a hardware iPod-like device, which they are not. They are releasing a piece of software that emnulates the iPod's HARDWARE. Therefore no harm.
Ya know, I feel like a month after I buy the extended version, they're release the super-trilogy version with more footage.
I have a $100 gift certificate for amazon.com that I refuse to use until that "super-trilogy" comes out. I need to check the fine print though and see how long teh thing is valid:P
I suppose my original post went a bit in the wrong direction. I agree with you on all those points, the problem I have is with people who seem to think that spelling is *THE* deciding factor of a person.
I'm getting so tired of hearing this from people. Yes, on a resume it's important to have proper grammar and spelling. Outside of that, as long as a person can get the point across, who really gives a damn if they misspell one or two things? In fact, where I work right now (a large catalog company) almost every email has at least one grammatical or spelling error. This includes emails from the well educated heads of major departments. Personally, I go out of my way to try to have somewhat decent grammar and good spelling, but if you're more concerned with someone's spelling in an email than the content itself, I would never put you on payroll.
I think the fact that the email contains spelling errors only helps to validate it.
While this doesn't seem like an incredibly safe thing to do, it's certainly nice to see someone actually doing something about his battery instead of just bitching.
And yeah, I know that IT has a strong influence in many of these fields, but it is abstracted from the first-hand death inherent in each.
But without IT many of the deaths would be much less preventable. So while it's not first hand, it cannot be discredited. And what about the navigational systems of airplanes? What if someone in IT for a control tower fucks up and monitoring fails? A plane crashing is one thing, but think of the numbers of planes that could easily collide at a busy airport if there were a systems malfunction.
The basic point is, you can't generalize stress to single field, it varries on a job-to-job basis.
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I guess one final thing to consider is what you think of this opportunity.
That's one thing I'm struggling with, the job is a combination of my two favorites things: computing and independent music. The job I'm talking about is for an independent music distributor.
That's kind of what I've been thinking. If I can get enough credits to transfer, I can finish an Associate's Degree in Pre-Business Administration in about 2 years of night classes. After which, the university would allow me to accredit that towards another 2 years as a full-time student in their College of Business to get a Bachelor's degree.
You make some very good points.
I definitely feel it is important to get a degree, but what I'm facing here is that it's still possible to do so while I'm working in exactly what I love. And the university I am looking at has a 2+2 program which would allow me to accredit my associate's degree hours towards earning a bachelor's degree in the future. That makes it seem much less out of reach. I'm still researching these things, so I'm speaking in theory here, but if it were possible for me to transfer my part of my 36 earned hours of credit already towards an associate's degree than I may very well be able to finish it in less than 2 years. And from there it may be possible to pursue the bachelor's while I work or maybe even take a year off work to get a full 2 semesters of classes in. Again, this is all theoretical until I can gather some more information.
Well that's just the thing. I'm pretty well set where I am now; I work for a company through the university here that finds internships for students around the city. I currently have a placement working with the IS staff at the Miles Kimball catalogue company. And I also maintain the infrastructure at the place that finds me internships. I have a very flexible schedule and can get as many as hours as I want in a week. But the idea of working with OS X all day doing EXACTLY what I do in all my spare time is just so appealing to me.
My financial position is just fine right now. The move would put strain on that because I know I would have to pay out of state tuition for at least a year, if not longer. Which looks like it would cost about $630/credit hour. So, assuming I could take 8hrs per semester, the first year would cost me something like $13,000. That's a little hard to swallow seeing as how I only have to cough up about $4,000/year right now. Although, after becoming a resident of the town, if I can switch tuition rates, it would only cost me $220/credit hour, which is a significant difference. Seeing as how this job is for an independent music distributor and I am only 19, I don't know if the type of salary I would be looking at could really justify the cost of education. And in that case, I think I would have to turn it down, as I really do want to continue my education now.
I was going to do an Ask Slashdot about this, but this topic is somewhat related. So I have a question for those of you with degrees and such that moved into careers: I may have the opportunity to take a Web Development job in another state doing PHP/MySQL work and Mac OS X support. The job description falls squarely into my interests. The problem is, I'm only 19 and finishing my frosh year in college. Would it be worth it to a take a full-time job like this and go to night classes to get an associate's degree? Does anyone here have specific experiences with the difference between earning an associate's and a bachelor's degree in the high tech field?
Replace the word "fuck" in parent with something useful (:
So explain why P2P file-sharing of illegal mp3s is so popular. The "majority" you speak of would agree with the miniority in that most of the CDs they buy are for 1 or 2 songs they like, and the rest will rarely ever get played. The difference is that they don't know any alternatives, so they are forced to overpay for the 1 or 2 songs they really want.
/. "crying," you're the first person to say that, really!
And nice job throwing in the little bit about
It will be interesting to see what happens as(if?) linux gains enough popularity. The distro installers will create a standard account for the user and allow them to set a root password. But I think the difference will come in that the default accounts usually aren't admin-level, unlike Windows. If you asked the average Joe Sixpack Windows user if his account has admin privelages, he'll likely just stare at you in confusion.
I've had TERRIBLE trouble with Renew on 10.2.8. For some reason it would always find about half of what needed updating and then only download updates for half of those before stalling to no end. It looks like it has been updated a few notches since I used it last. How is the stability for you?
...especially with the arsenal of inane reality-based shows bombarding the airwaves.
...and once the Simpsons goes off the air...
Amen to that. About the only thing I ever watch anymore is Comedy Central, and even it has (and has had in the past) a reality show.
That is the only non-Comedy Central show I ever watch, btw (:
Uh....can you say X? Any number of distros? Try giving a Windows user nothing but a DOS terminal to work with, see if he/she can install a wireless card with that (:
which, of course, makes it very much possible that it could've been saved from OOo (:
:P
Emphasis mine. Original comment also mine
I seriously can't help but wonder how much time is spent thinking up long, stupid names that make semi-related acronyms compared to how much time is spent actually putting together a decent proposal.
which, of course, makes it very much possible that it could've been saved from OOo (:
I support open-source and all, but please don't give its users a bad name. This would be a great "Interesting" or "Informative" post if you had said "My friend uses the OSS kSayIt and he says it works great " and left it at that. You don't need turn it into some rude "I'm better than you because I use OSS" post.
I don't think removing comment from code makes anything "easier" (:
The unfortunate irony of the program was that the kids who were formerly the most obedient in school--ie the geek types--were placed in a position of violating rules left and right if they wanted to set up their computers in a comfortable sort of way with the usual warez etc.
Am I reading this wrong, or are you saying that people who pirate are "good" people?
There would be harm if this company were releasing a hardware iPod-like device, which they are not. They are releasing a piece of software that emnulates the iPod's HARDWARE. Therefore no harm.
Ya know, I feel like a month after I buy the extended version, they're release the super-trilogy version with more footage.
:P
I have a $100 gift certificate for amazon.com that I refuse to use until that "super-trilogy" comes out. I need to check the fine print though and see how long teh thing is valid
I suppose my original post went a bit in the wrong direction. I agree with you on all those points, the problem I have is with people who seem to think that spelling is *THE* deciding factor of a person.
I'm getting so tired of hearing this from people. Yes, on a resume it's important to have proper grammar and spelling. Outside of that, as long as a person can get the point across, who really gives a damn if they misspell one or two things? In fact, where I work right now (a large catalog company) almost every email has at least one grammatical or spelling error. This includes emails from the well educated heads of major departments. Personally, I go out of my way to try to have somewhat decent grammar and good spelling, but if you're more concerned with someone's spelling in an email than the content itself, I would never put you on payroll.
I think the fact that the email contains spelling errors only helps to validate it.
While this doesn't seem like an incredibly safe thing to do, it's certainly nice to see someone actually doing something about his battery instead of just bitching.
As far as I am concerned, this does rank right up there with iPods-dirty-little-secret.
I wouldn't say it shares any "rank" with a few bitching about there out of warranty iPod having issues...
And yeah, I know that IT has a strong influence in many of these fields, but it is abstracted from the first-hand death inherent in each.
But without IT many of the deaths would be much less preventable. So while it's not first hand, it cannot be discredited. And what about the navigational systems of airplanes? What if someone in IT for a control tower fucks up and monitoring fails? A plane crashing is one thing, but think of the numbers of planes that could easily collide at a busy airport if there were a systems malfunction.
The basic point is, you can't generalize stress to single field, it varries on a job-to-job basis.