Stay current, keep you eyes open, be positive. At this point in your career you can't be pissing people off or burning bridges. Stay fit, try to look as young as possible.
Move to DC and get a company or GS position that will sponsor you for a security clearance. Not some BS DOD Secret or Top Secret.... they vet school teachers more than that and these clearances are becoming worthless. Intel TS/SCI with a full scope poly. Employment for life as long as you keep your nose clean.
There are far too many lame engineers who lean on the clearance to remain employed, but it is an excellent hedge against ageism.
That is the worse reply I have seen in ages... and very telling about the state of development in your shop.
NO automated development practices? Really? You run all of your builds by hand? Your regression testing is all manual? You hand roll boiler plate serialization code? Continuous Integration... ring any bells?
Embedded developers I would think would be a great starting point: they are comfortable at the kernel level and may already have training on the very control systems being targeted.
Get an unofficial copy of your transcript immediately after graduation.
Won't work for every job, or for follow on degree admissions... but it will satisfy some employers.... at which point you can start paying your loan off if hired.
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I am in the same boat.
Stay current, keep you eyes open, be positive. At this point in your career you can't be pissing people off or burning bridges. Stay fit, try to look as young as possible.
Move to DC and get a company or GS position that will sponsor you for a security clearance. Not some BS DOD Secret or Top Secret.... they vet school teachers more than that and these clearances are becoming worthless. Intel TS/SCI with a full scope poly. Employment for life as long as you keep your nose clean.
There are far too many lame engineers who lean on the clearance to remain employed, but it is an excellent hedge against ageism.
So it sounds like a great model to me.
Crotchety bastards who will inject some maturity into your team, then sit down and crank out top notch code for 8 hours.
That is the worse reply I have seen in ages... and very telling about the state of development in your shop.
NO automated development practices? Really? You run all of your builds by hand? Your regression testing is all manual? You hand roll boiler plate serialization code? Continuous Integration... ring any bells?
Christ that is pathetic.
...up yours with your one way space trips!
Too late for that now I suppose.
In lieu of that grab the drives and run.
Embedded developers I would think would be a great starting point: they are comfortable at the kernel level and may already have training on the very control systems being targeted.
You must realize that half of Slashdot's readership is into kiddie porn, hence the vitriol.
I was at the meeting at Berico Technologies where Elemental was pleading with them to help Elemental break into DOD airborne video ISR work.
Yes, *that* Berico Technologies.
Beginning of the end for Facebook.
Show me the rocket that NASA built... and I'll show you the rocket built by a contractor.... which incidentally is private enterprise.
Pretty much sums up the prevailing view re: software development.
My vocation is doomed.
A DBA you say? How quaint.
Facebook will go the route AOL did soon enough.
I say "way to go Rooskies!"
Pay no mind to the fools who can't get past the spectral mapping.
...large nuclear reactor floating in the sky.
Glow so bright that staring at it may cause blindness. Can cause skin burns. Yellow.
My college and subsequent graduate university would not give official transcripts to the student... ever.
Ohh... so angry.
For a bunch of murdering assholes, the IRA was fairly good about not targeting civilians just for the hell of it.
So is LA, SF, New York, and Chicago. Your point?
Making lots of assumptions about the codecs used, aren't we...
That is an NSA program, none of the IC's from that filter down. More to the point is the DARPA TRUST program.
While China will be trumped about as the enemy, there will never be a direct war with them. As in the past, it will be all proxy wars.
Actually, the real problem is people who wish death upon others, regardless of the reason.
Get an unofficial copy of your transcript immediately after graduation.
Won't work for every job, or for follow on degree admissions... but it will satisfy some employers.... at which point you can start paying your loan off if hired.