I have student loans, he doesn't. We both make enough that we have enough to set aside for retirement/savings on top of that. But I like to splurge on electronics, and he is more interested in setting aside money for travel throughout the year (he goes on lots of weekend trips to conventions without me.) We do have a joint checking account that the mortgage is paid out of, but it's from a different bank than our regular checking accounts. Rather than have to wait a few days for inter-bank transfers to go through, I just write him an all in one check, then he writes a check to the mortgage account. Horribly inefficient but we get a quarter of a percent off the house interest rate for using the mortgage bank's checking account, so we do it.
Not gonna say you're sexist, just that you hang out with bad women. What you've just described is the typical gal who hangs out in a bar waiting for Prince Charming to come along and pay her way through life. My sister was one such woman, and I viewed her as a negative role model. If a woman is hanging out in a bar trying to meet guys, it's because she's a boring person and doesn't have anything else better to do with her life. Women with actual hobbies and interests have no trouble finding men (which is why they're taken), and they tend to be nicer people overall.
My cohort was full of 25-to-30-something professionals who had already been in the workforce for several years, all of whom had an undergrad degree in something (ranged from English to comp sci), and all of whom were highly motivated to finish the program because advancement in existing careers depended on it.
Could we have done it if we were 18-year-olds fresh from high school? I doubt it. It's not that the work was difficult (well, aside from server side Java, which was a headache and a half) but the pace at which we covered material would have probably taken twice as long at the undergrad level.
I think the program may need to be more narrowly focused. You can't churn out a genuine web programmer at the associate's level, but you can produce an entry level IT worker with a solid understanding of HTML, Javascript, and maybe PHP and SQL in that time frame.
It was a fun little Skinner box for a while, until my farm got so big and had so much crap on it that it took over a minute to load in the browser and went 5FPS. I quit when I "won" by unlocking the last achievement (the one that would have normally cost $200 but since I had so many accounts I got it for a little bit of time investment) - and not a day too soon, since they raised the level cap shortly after I quit and added a ton more achievements that would have cost thousands of dollars to unlock.
Because nobody wants to do on the job training any more. And chances are if a company is hiring a DBA, it's because they are short a DBA. If there is anyone else on the database team, they're going to be struggling to do the work of two people and won't have time to train anyone else.
Companies want someone who has already been trained to do the job they are hiring for. They want someone who can hit the ground running.
I think a lot of it also depends on the financial health of the person in question. Right now, leaving my stable and boring and well paying job is out of the question because I still have a giant stinking hole of student loans I am frantically trying to fill. After that, I will need to get a new vehicle. Once I've gotten a new car (ideally paid for in cash up front) and I've lost the albatross of student loans, then I can consider jumping ship to a start-up or moving along to contract work. Until then, stable and boring and well-paying is the way to go.
Anyone who wants to be healthy is getting between 7-8 hours of sleep a night, both weekends and weekdays. I usually hit at 7.5 right on the nose. Lack of sleep hygiene is associated with a whole host of diseases, ranging from metabolic syndrome to Alzheimer's. If you require less sleep to be at 100% efficiency, you are the exception and not the rule.
The tech jobs in GA posted on Slashdot are heavily based in Alpharetta, and yet it's not in the list of cities they are considering. (And getting them to extend it down the 316 corridor is also wishful thinking, but Athens sure could use some options.)
All 1.5 million of them! Yeah, it ripped off a lot of WoW mechanics (as well as a dozen other games - so it wasn't plagiarism, it was research.) Then it added in FF lore and a pretty damn good graphics engine. And FFXI got fairly high reviews when it came out - it just had its 11th anniversary and it's still P2P so it must have done something right.
Didn't see this anywhere on here. They took the monumental pile of suck that was the original XIV and transformed it into a thoroughly enjoyable casual P2P MMO. I've been having a blast.
Actually, I think that may be part of it. There are individually competitive women, of course, but I think most women who have that kind of drive are already doing real sports. I personally find a lot more enjoyment in team-based video games and activities than in solo play, which is why "E-Sports" seems like a weird hobby to me despite the fact that I play games several hours a day.
I think the survey was 1. Male 2. Female 3. Do not want to disclose. 90-94% said they were male, and of the remaining 6-10%, half said they were female. The other half preferred not to say. But that does mean between 3-5% actually did identify as female.
I'm okay with that, provided that the monthly amount is reasonable. $10 a month for flat the network access, and then 50 cents per gigabyte on top of that. So the 1 gig email checker pays $10.50 for the pipes they're sipping from, and the Netflix junkie pays $60 for the 100 gigs of bandwidth they're hogging.
NASA: We want you to make our computers awesome.
HP: How awesome?
NASA: The awesomest!
HP: So how awesome is awesomest?
NASA: As awesome as you can make it.
HP: Okay, that'll be two billion dollars.
NASA: Deal! Yay we get awesome new computers, and an an awesome new software system, that will do all sorts of cool things like be our ERP solution and our CAD software and our entire core infrastructure solution...
HP: Yay, we just made a ton of money! So.... what exactly did they want again?
I bet some police officers are mighty pissed off about this ruling, but as someone who frequently drives with the lights on to warn fellow motorists of speed traps, I am pleased.
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That wasn't me.
I have student loans, he doesn't. We both make enough that we have enough to set aside for retirement/savings on top of that. But I like to splurge on electronics, and he is more interested in setting aside money for travel throughout the year (he goes on lots of weekend trips to conventions without me.) We do have a joint checking account that the mortgage is paid out of, but it's from a different bank than our regular checking accounts. Rather than have to wait a few days for inter-bank transfers to go through, I just write him an all in one check, then he writes a check to the mortgage account. Horribly inefficient but we get a quarter of a percent off the house interest rate for using the mortgage bank's checking account, so we do it.
I'm the wife in the situation. I just wrote my husband an $800 check for my cut of the mortgage and food last month. Problem?
Not gonna say you're sexist, just that you hang out with bad women. What you've just described is the typical gal who hangs out in a bar waiting for Prince Charming to come along and pay her way through life. My sister was one such woman, and I viewed her as a negative role model. If a woman is hanging out in a bar trying to meet guys, it's because she's a boring person and doesn't have anything else better to do with her life. Women with actual hobbies and interests have no trouble finding men (which is why they're taken), and they tend to be nicer people overall.
My cohort was full of 25-to-30-something professionals who had already been in the workforce for several years, all of whom had an undergrad degree in something (ranged from English to comp sci), and all of whom were highly motivated to finish the program because advancement in existing careers depended on it.
Could we have done it if we were 18-year-olds fresh from high school? I doubt it. It's not that the work was difficult (well, aside from server side Java, which was a headache and a half) but the pace at which we covered material would have probably taken twice as long at the undergrad level.
I think the program may need to be more narrowly focused. You can't churn out a genuine web programmer at the associate's level, but you can produce an entry level IT worker with a solid understanding of HTML, Javascript, and maybe PHP and SQL in that time frame.
Well, there is a whole market of tablet games for sight-impaired users that has barely been touched yet!
It was a fun little Skinner box for a while, until my farm got so big and had so much crap on it that it took over a minute to load in the browser and went 5FPS. I quit when I "won" by unlocking the last achievement (the one that would have normally cost $200 but since I had so many accounts I got it for a little bit of time investment) - and not a day too soon, since they raised the level cap shortly after I quit and added a ton more achievements that would have cost thousands of dollars to unlock.
This is why I had 26 Facebook accounts when I was actively playing Farmville.
They don't, not really. That was their whole point.
Because nobody wants to do on the job training any more. And chances are if a company is hiring a DBA, it's because they are short a DBA. If there is anyone else on the database team, they're going to be struggling to do the work of two people and won't have time to train anyone else.
Companies want someone who has already been trained to do the job they are hiring for. They want someone who can hit the ground running.
I think a lot of it also depends on the financial health of the person in question. Right now, leaving my stable and boring and well paying job is out of the question because I still have a giant stinking hole of student loans I am frantically trying to fill. After that, I will need to get a new vehicle. Once I've gotten a new car (ideally paid for in cash up front) and I've lost the albatross of student loans, then I can consider jumping ship to a start-up or moving along to contract work. Until then, stable and boring and well-paying is the way to go.
Anyone who wants to be healthy is getting between 7-8 hours of sleep a night, both weekends and weekdays. I usually hit at 7.5 right on the nose. Lack of sleep hygiene is associated with a whole host of diseases, ranging from metabolic syndrome to Alzheimer's. If you require less sleep to be at 100% efficiency, you are the exception and not the rule.
And 10 year old graphics!
The tech jobs in GA posted on Slashdot are heavily based in Alpharetta, and yet it's not in the list of cities they are considering. (And getting them to extend it down the 316 corridor is also wishful thinking, but Athens sure could use some options.)
All 1.5 million of them! Yeah, it ripped off a lot of WoW mechanics (as well as a dozen other games - so it wasn't plagiarism, it was research.) Then it added in FF lore and a pretty damn good graphics engine. And FFXI got fairly high reviews when it came out - it just had its 11th anniversary and it's still P2P so it must have done something right.
Didn't see this anywhere on here. They took the monumental pile of suck that was the original XIV and transformed it into a thoroughly enjoyable casual P2P MMO. I've been having a blast.
It's out on Steam now, too.
Actually, I think that may be part of it. There are individually competitive women, of course, but I think most women who have that kind of drive are already doing real sports. I personally find a lot more enjoyment in team-based video games and activities than in solo play, which is why "E-Sports" seems like a weird hobby to me despite the fact that I play games several hours a day.
I think the survey was 1. Male 2. Female 3. Do not want to disclose. 90-94% said they were male, and of the remaining 6-10%, half said they were female. The other half preferred not to say. But that does mean between 3-5% actually did identify as female.
I'm okay with that, provided that the monthly amount is reasonable. $10 a month for flat the network access, and then 50 cents per gigabyte on top of that. So the 1 gig email checker pays $10.50 for the pipes they're sipping from, and the Netflix junkie pays $60 for the 100 gigs of bandwidth they're hogging.
Just make sure not to adopt one born in the Year of the Goat. I hear they tend to be flakey. Try for a Horse or a Dragon.
NASA: We want you to make our computers awesome.
HP: How awesome?
NASA: The awesomest!
HP: So how awesome is awesomest?
NASA: As awesome as you can make it.
HP: Okay, that'll be two billion dollars.
NASA: Deal! Yay we get awesome new computers, and an an awesome new software system, that will do all sorts of cool things like be our ERP solution and our CAD software and our entire core infrastructure solution...
HP: Yay, we just made a ton of money! So.... what exactly did they want again?
PC Magazine did this to me too. I deleted my bookmark. Thankfully, I haven't been assaulted by the Beta Star just yet.
I bet some police officers are mighty pissed off about this ruling, but as someone who frequently drives with the lights on to warn fellow motorists of speed traps, I am pleased.
And yet, Democrats now refer to it as "Nice Polite Republicans."
To be fair, they don't have anywhere to go but up (or belly up) at this point.