Agreed..the students that outpace teachers are VERY few, like less than 1%. Too msome students, if you build a website, they think you are a master. However, we all know that that is just step one to Guruhood. I went to school in a blue collar neighborhood where there were no smart kids,so by me excelling was a curse. I became the admin of a VMS/VAX system in 1984 when i was 14 for the school system. But school was SOOOO hard for me. I was more than a social outcast. I was beat up DAILY. So, I had to "dumb down" so to speak. I had be at their level. It sucked, but I never got beat up anymore! (Still got a 1240 on my SAT though). I now know many teachers. I now understand why alot of kids excel passed the teachers. MANY of these teachers know the curriculum once they get tenure, and THAT'S it! No more! I fear that these people may become MY kids' teachers.
I had a guy call me to write software that would have taken on average 2 month to write...I called him back about 2 hours later with a quote and told him around $6,000. He practically had a heart attack. He said he could buy something simlar for $29 in the store. But he wanted a special, customized version. Obviously, this guy knew nothing about the software process. I thought my bid was too low. I lowered it because I needed the cash at the time and was willing to do it inexpensively. He couldnt believe it would take longer than a couple of days. I'm glad it was too high for him..I would NOT want a guy like that as a client.
My advice would be to increase your knowledge on as much as you can. Be vendor neutral. Learn a little of a lot. Try to be familiar with as much as you can. Don't know Java? Read a book on it. then you can add it to your resume. You might not get a JOB as a java programmer, but it increases your value. And, after being an employer for 5 years, my biggest advice is..never kiss ass. While employers/managers may suck it up, they look down on people who DO kiss ass:)
It doesnt really bother me...just hits a nerve..just like if I got a job being a lightwave compositor. I'm not even too sure what it is (besides what google can't tell me), and I don't even know enough about it to fudge my way in an interview:) After 37 interviews, I'm just getting pissed hwen the guy who interviews me knows NOTHING, and I get passed over because he thinks I'm lying or something. (I don't really know why I get passed over,..If I knew, I'd change somehow)
I understand, however, I'm in a position now, in which I have 12 years of experience, and I've been unemployed for 10 months, and I'm getting replies such as "We need 5 years experience with EMC, you only have 3, sorry."
I would have to disagree..I have done many integrations. I have seen usage of calendaring, but shared calendaring isn't used that much. The most I've seen is shared between secretary and boss. I talked w/ Caldera on the phone, and they said shared calendaring is in the works.
I did a comparison between Caldera Volution, SendMail.com Corporate and Exchange. Volution has 98% of the features that Exchange has..even though it's not released under the GPL, there IS a Linux equivalent
I diagreed with him saying "suck it up"...I admire my friend..he has conviction..sure. he tried screwing the Insurance companies (85% of doctors do), but he realized the futility of it all...all the other doctors he knew just bent over and took it..he had the balls to say "hell no, I have conviction and pride", so he went where he could do what he wanted...he became a doctor because he loves medicine...a truly amazing person...
I used to manage them...I know how much they made...they can get 2 for the price of one American..I'm not saying ALL H1B's are bad...Just an increasing amount from one country is tipping the scales.There are PLENTY of qualified citizens! PLENTY. That's just a liberal excuse for cheap labor. US Corporations are globalists, not nationalists. They couldnt give a rat's bunghole about the quality of life for American citizens..as long as they meet their bottom line.
Back in 94-95 I bought myself a Cyclades and had a small dialup thingie for friends and family in the neighborhood. Left a position, was single and had money to burn..so it was basicaly a hobby, until I got more and more people wanting to try this internet thing...well, I became a full-fledged ISP, and then eventually a data-center after time...it was the right place at the right time. The it became too big and wasn't fun anymore (5 years later). Then the dot com bust, and I sold to the highest bidder (which wasnt much). THAT'S where I find it hard to get a job now. They think if you ran a solid company for 5 years, you won't want to do "menial" work...see, they're seriously confused...since in the beginning I did everything myself (from Coder, to SysAdmin to Janitor), I know how important the small stuff is. Then they think we'll have some power play...they don't understand that for the past 2 years I was a regular employee. So, if I remove my company from my resume, how do I explain the gap? Name the company, and say that I was just a code monkey or something? If you have the cash and the will, do it...The one thing I have learned in 12 years in the IT industry and 5 years of running an ISP, the customer is NEVER right..NEVER.:)
Job Market is slow for 12 year veterans too....in the past 10 months, I have had over 40 interviews (2 a week on avg)..the headhunters love me, and they love the 16 other people they send to the interview with me...Me, and 14 guys from pakistan....They get the job, while I just wasted my time as the token American to pass the Equal Opportunity Police. If you think I'm joking, come with me next week to my interviews...(I'm in NYC too)
I'd have to disagree...my doctor is a friend of mine..he has HIS ways of doing htings..and now thta managed health care is now the way it's done in the USA, they tell him what he can use, etc. So, "executive managers" are telling a professional doctor of 12 years which tools he can use and which journals he can subscribe to. He's decided to leave the US medical association and go and work in South America,where he is free to use the disciplines he knows in the best way he know show, and to help people in the Amazon..(God bless his soul!)
Noble poverty is fine when you start from the beginning...when you have a LONG time career under your belt, with wife, kids and mortgage, and a retirement plan that is now empty, it's hard to tell your kids they can't go to the same school anymore because daddy can't afford the neighborhood anymore. When you see everything you've worked for, everything you've saved up become depleted, it's ok if it's only YOU.When you are responsible for 3 people, the stress can be unreal. I can't get an acedemic job because I dont have a masters...I can't get a corporate job because the Nation of Pakistan has taken all the jobs....oops..gotta go..I have my nightly cab route to do....
Europe is too smart to let 1 million people enter the continent a year on "work visas"...we take em all in...now we are FORCED to go to Europe..How's the IT filed in Austria?
Hmmm..if there is so much money in the corporate world, how come I've been unemployed for 10 months? I'm not a green newbie..I've been in this field for 12 years and ran a company for 5..I've been told by headhunters that my previous "executive" experience scares them off..so , should I change my resume to just say Technical lead, even though I did EVRYTHING?
OK..maybe the gardener analogy was bad....let's say I hire a SKILLED mechanic (I know this from word of mouth) to fix my car...and let's say I know NOTHING about cars..( or I think I do..)..who the hell am I to tell him which tools to use? Or how about a doctor? SHould I demand that he uses the latest and greatest scalpel? I can suggest, and he'll smile and nod and use his own anyway...unless I was a doctor and gave him the scalpel I prefer he use, but even THEN he wouldnt use it...he woul djust humor me and pretend...I consider the IT field (engineers, developers, administraotrs) in general to highly skilled professionals (come to think of it, soembody in Med school had to graduate last in his clas.....), and WE usually know what tools we work best with...sure, we might not know ALL the tools, but we shouldnt be forced to use a tool by someone who knows nothing about our discipline....
Well, I don't do that..I give the baker creative license....I may ask the FLAVOR I want, or like no butter cream, but HE'S the baker..Not me, so he should do it how he does it...
Good, however, it reminds me of a story I heard a while ago...."You can use your own tools, I just demand the invoice to be on Parchment written with the blood of a lamb":)
I STILL have my Sun SparcStation 5! I bought that baby when it was new (think 486)...I still use it..it's serving my website and streams MP3's onto the net:)
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Agreed..the students that outpace teachers are VERY few, like less than 1%. Too msome students, if you build a website, they think you are a master. However, we all know that that is just step one to Guruhood. I went to school in a blue collar neighborhood where there were no smart kids,so by me excelling was a curse. I became the admin of a VMS/VAX system in 1984 when i was 14 for the school system. But school was SOOOO hard for me. I was more than a social outcast. I was beat up DAILY. So, I had to "dumb down" so to speak. I had be at their level. It sucked, but I never got beat up anymore! (Still got a 1240 on my SAT though). I now know many teachers. I now understand why alot of kids excel passed the teachers. MANY of these teachers know the curriculum once they get tenure, and THAT'S it! No more! I fear that these people may become MY kids' teachers.
I haven't stepped into an arcade since 1988. I have no clue what Dance Dance is..someone wanna help me out?
I had a guy call me to write software that would have taken on average 2 month to write...I called him back about 2 hours later with a quote and told him around $6,000. He practically had a heart attack. He said he could buy something simlar for $29 in the store. But he wanted a special, customized version. Obviously, this guy knew nothing about the software process. I thought my bid was too low. I lowered it because I needed the cash at the time and was willing to do it inexpensively. He couldnt believe it would take longer than a couple of days. I'm glad it was too high for him..I would NOT want a guy like that as a client.
My advice would be to increase your knowledge on as much as you can. Be vendor neutral. Learn a little of a lot. Try to be familiar with as much as you can. Don't know Java? Read a book on it. then you can add it to your resume. You might not get a JOB as a java programmer, but it increases your value. :)
And, after being an employer for 5 years, my biggest advice is..never kiss ass. While employers/managers may suck it up, they look down on people who DO kiss ass
It doesnt really bother me...just hits a nerve..just like if I got a job being a lightwave compositor. I'm not even too sure what it is (besides what google can't tell me), and I don't even know enough about it to fudge my way in an interview :) After 37 interviews, I'm just getting pissed hwen the guy who interviews me knows NOTHING, and I get passed over because he thinks I'm lying or something. (I don't really know why I get passed over,..If I knew, I'd change somehow)
I understand, however, I'm in a position now, in which I have 12 years of experience, and I've been unemployed for 10 months, and I'm getting replies such as "We need 5 years experience with EMC, you only have 3, sorry."
Just a question...if you know nothing about mail servers, what are you doing setting up a company's mail server?
I would have to disagree..I have done many integrations. I have seen usage of calendaring, but shared calendaring isn't used that much. The most I've seen is shared between secretary and boss. I talked w/ Caldera on the phone, and they said shared calendaring is in the works.
The 2% that is missing is the Calendar sharing feature that every one says they want but never use anyway :)
I did a comparison between Caldera Volution, SendMail.com Corporate and Exchange. Volution has 98% of the features that Exchange has..even though it's not released under the GPL, there IS a Linux equivalent
I diagreed with him saying "suck it up"...I admire my friend..he has conviction..sure. he tried screwing the Insurance companies (85% of doctors do), but he realized the futility of it all...all the other doctors he knew just bent over and took it..he had the balls to say "hell no, I have conviction and pride", so he went where he could do what he wanted...he became a doctor because he loves medicine...a truly amazing person...
I used to manage them...I know how much they made...they can get 2 for the price of one American..I'm not saying ALL H1B's are bad...Just an increasing amount from one country is tipping the scales.There are PLENTY of qualified citizens! PLENTY. That's just a liberal excuse for cheap labor. US Corporations are globalists, not nationalists. They couldnt give a rat's bunghole about the quality of life for American citizens..as long as they meet their bottom line.
It's not a joke..I can name at least 50 US citizens that have to move out of there house...including me..
Back in 94-95 I bought myself a Cyclades and had a small dialup thingie for friends and family in the neighborhood. Left a position, was single and had money to burn..so it was basicaly a hobby, until I got more and more people wanting to try this internet thing...well, I became a full-fledged ISP, and then eventually a data-center after time...it was the right place at the right time. The it became too big and wasn't fun anymore (5 years later). Then the dot com bust, and I sold to the highest bidder (which wasnt much). THAT'S where I find it hard to get a job now. They think if you ran a solid company for 5 years, you won't want to do "menial" work...see, they're seriously confused...since in the beginning I did everything myself (from Coder, to SysAdmin to Janitor), I know how important the small stuff is. Then they think we'll have some power play...they don't understand that for the past 2 years I was a regular employee. So, if I remove my company from my resume, how do I explain the gap? Name the company, and say that I was just a code monkey or something? If you have the cash and the will, do it...The one thing I have learned in 12 years in the IT industry and 5 years of running an ISP, the customer is NEVER right..NEVER. :)
Job Market is slow for 12 year veterans too....in the past 10 months, I have had over 40 interviews (2 a week on avg)..the headhunters love me, and they love the 16 other people they send to the interview with me...Me, and 14 guys from pakistan....They get the job, while I just wasted my time as the token American to pass the Equal Opportunity Police.
If you think I'm joking, come with me next week to my interviews...(I'm in NYC too)
Move to India, become a citizen of India, and then come back to the US on a H1B visa! I GUARANTEE you'll get a job..
Oh..I'm not questioning the fact that corporations have more money than academia. I was being coy :)
I'd have to disagree...my doctor is a friend of mine..he has HIS ways of doing htings..and now thta managed health care is now the way it's done in the USA, they tell him what he can use, etc. So, "executive managers" are telling a professional doctor of 12 years which tools he can use and which journals he can subscribe to. He's decided to leave the US medical association and go and work in South America,where he is free to use the disciplines he knows in the best way he know show, and to help people in the Amazon..(God bless his soul!)
Noble poverty is fine when you start from the beginning...when you have a LONG time career under your belt, with wife, kids and mortgage, and a retirement plan that is now empty, it's hard to tell your kids they can't go to the same school anymore because daddy can't afford the neighborhood anymore.
When you see everything you've worked for, everything you've saved up become depleted, it's ok if it's only YOU.When you are responsible for 3 people, the stress can be unreal. I can't get an acedemic job because I dont have a masters...I can't get a corporate job because the Nation of Pakistan has taken all the jobs....oops..gotta go..I have my nightly cab route to do....
Europe is too smart to let 1 million people enter the continent a year on "work visas"...we take em all in...now we are FORCED to go to Europe..How's the IT filed in Austria?
Hmmm..if there is so much money in the corporate world, how come I've been unemployed for 10 months? I'm not a green newbie..I've been in this field for 12 years and ran a company for 5..I've been told by headhunters that my previous "executive" experience scares them off..so , should I change my resume to just say Technical lead, even though I did EVRYTHING?
OK..maybe the gardener analogy was bad....let's say I hire a SKILLED mechanic (I know this from word of mouth) to fix my car...and let's say I know NOTHING about cars..( or I think I do..)..who the hell am I to tell him which tools to use? Or how about a doctor? SHould I demand that he uses the latest and greatest scalpel? I can suggest, and he'll smile and nod and use his own anyway...unless I was a doctor and gave him the scalpel I prefer he use, but even THEN he wouldnt use it...he woul djust humor me and pretend...I consider the IT field (engineers, developers, administraotrs) in general to highly skilled professionals (come to think of it, soembody in Med school had to graduate last in his clas.....), and WE usually know what tools we work best with...sure, we might not know ALL the tools, but we shouldnt be forced to use a tool by someone who knows nothing about our discipline....
Well, I don't do that..I give the baker creative license....I may ask the FLAVOR I want, or like no butter cream, but HE'S the baker..Not me, so he should do it how he does it...
Good, however, it reminds me of a story I heard a while ago...."You can use your own tools, I just demand the invoice to be on Parchment written with the blood of a lamb" :)
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I STILL have my Sun SparcStation 5! I bought that baby when it was new (think 486)...I still use it..it's serving my website and streams MP3's onto the net :)