SARL is a French abbreviation denoting a corporation with limited capital, Societe Anonyme des Resources Limitees -- Anonymous Company with Limited Resources. Sorry for being off topic.
It *is* an American thing. Geeks here are HUGE, in a lot of cases, I mean disgustingly fat. Never was the case when I worked in Germany, Holland, Ireland, France... the whole "I'm a geek ergo I am anto-social and awkward and fat" thing, a certain segment of the techie population seems to revel in that nonsense.
MBAs are a dime a dozen, but people with respected MBAs from world-class colleges (Wharton, Henley, LSE, etc.) are not, and they are very, very valuable people. Case in point; years ago I worked for a maker of sunglasses and contact lenses in Holland, helping on the IT side of setting up a distribution centre from scratch. One of my colleagues was a German from Munich, about a year or two older than me at the time (30ish). He had a primary degree in brewing technology (cliche!) as his parents owned an established small brewery in Bavaria, was destined to enter that industry, went off and got an MBA from the US instead, and was the single most valuable employee of any organization I've ever been in -- this guy Wayne could look at a situation and see things none of us others noticed, and immediately find ways to improve it. Don't discount the value of a good MBA. Just because there are loads of people with crappy IT degrees, it doesn't preclude there being valuable people out there.
Me. I use the TIBCO suite of EAI/middleware tools heavily in my job, but there are no runtimes or design tools for 90% of the components in the suite on OS X. I'd love to be able to run Windows to have access to that suite on my MBP. Everything else I need to do my job (Oracle, JBoss, MySQL, whatever) is available for OS X. Not so moronic now, is it?
And to address the veiled snobbery in your mention of my family members, no, not at all. Were I to compare myself to them I wouldn't feel particularly well off. On the contrary.
In my neighborhood (a middle of the road city in the western 'burbs) average household income is $65K, and I guess the average price for a 1,500 square foot home would be about $140K. Pretty decent. I like it here. Compare that to roughly equivalent salaries in Ireland and property prices that are three times that, I'm feeling pretty good about things.
Milton, greetings from a fellow Paddy... I live in St. Louis, about as mid-west as you can get. The market here is very hot right now, and though there was pain during the dot-bomb days, it was never as severe as it was on the left and right coasts. Starting salary for a good person with a masters in CS or EE would be around $50K to $60K. My wife began working in IT after retraining from her previous career in business development four years ago, with a mere Associate Degree (much like an Irish National Certificate from CIT or whereever), began at $37K, now makes $65K. I just accepted a job offer for $90K, with overtime payable... but I have 18 years experience, the past 8 being spent in the world of Java, EAI, J2EE and large distributed systems.
Don't believe the hype! IT is *still* a rewarding and highly lucrative career for those who are good at what they do and who enjoy what they do.
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Please excuse my ignorance, but what do you mean by "fabric"? In 18 years of IT work I've never heard this before and I'm curious.
That's the IR receiver for the Front Row remote...
Well at least it prevented the rest of us from making the same basic mistake.
Wait a minute... context doesn't change the harmless gaffe, he *did* say he was a jelly donut. I believe dropping the "ein" would have corrected it.
Ah come on... I can't stand the man, but he is allowed to make pop culture references, isn't he? Doesn't he own an iPod? Where's the harm...
You whining little pussy.
Hey, all this potato talk is negative stereotyping... just because the Irish subsidiary was involved! ;-)
SARL is a French abbreviation denoting a corporation with limited capital, Societe Anonyme des Resources Limitees -- Anonymous Company with Limited Resources. Sorry for being off topic.
You are my hero. Best post ever!
It *is* an American thing. Geeks here are HUGE, in a lot of cases, I mean disgustingly fat. Never was the case when I worked in Germany, Holland, Ireland, France... the whole "I'm a geek ergo I am anto-social and awkward and fat" thing, a certain segment of the techie population seems to revel in that nonsense.
I think he was probably joking. Fatty.
>'sides, show me a geek that doesn't love DDR! :)
Right here.
Oh don't be such a childish idiot.
This guy is nuts.
MBAs are a dime a dozen, but people with respected MBAs from world-class colleges (Wharton, Henley, LSE, etc.) are not, and they are very, very valuable people. Case in point; years ago I worked for a maker of sunglasses and contact lenses in Holland, helping on the IT side of setting up a distribution centre from scratch. One of my colleagues was a German from Munich, about a year or two older than me at the time (30ish). He had a primary degree in brewing technology (cliche!) as his parents owned an established small brewery in Bavaria, was destined to enter that industry, went off and got an MBA from the US instead, and was the single most valuable employee of any organization I've ever been in -- this guy Wayne could look at a situation and see things none of us others noticed, and immediately find ways to improve it. Don't discount the value of a good MBA. Just because there are loads of people with crappy IT degrees, it doesn't preclude there being valuable people out there.
Me. I use the TIBCO suite of EAI/middleware tools heavily in my job, but there are no runtimes or design tools for 90% of the components in the suite on OS X. I'd love to be able to run Windows to have access to that suite on my MBP. Everything else I need to do my job (Oracle, JBoss, MySQL, whatever) is available for OS X. Not so moronic now, is it?
Thank you so very much for not using the slightly creepy "Aunt Tilly" example from E.S.R.
That was the point...
And to address the veiled snobbery in your mention of my family members, no, not at all. Were I to compare myself to them I wouldn't feel particularly well off. On the contrary.
In my neighborhood (a middle of the road city in the western 'burbs) average household income is $65K, and I guess the average price for a 1,500 square foot home would be about $140K. Pretty decent. I like it here. Compare that to roughly equivalent salaries in Ireland and property prices that are three times that, I'm feeling pretty good about things.
No, I'm comparing it to the national and local averages -- it's lucrative to me. Gosh, are you very wealthy? You must be happy.
He's clearly talking out his arsehole! There's four of us.
I would advise you that, after two years you should expect to make at least euro 35 - 40K, if you're intelligent, motivated and competent.
Milton, greetings from a fellow Paddy... I live in St. Louis, about as mid-west as you can get. The market here is very hot right now, and though there was pain during the dot-bomb days, it was never as severe as it was on the left and right coasts. Starting salary for a good person with a masters in CS or EE would be around $50K to $60K. My wife began working in IT after retraining from her previous career in business development four years ago, with a mere Associate Degree (much like an Irish National Certificate from CIT or whereever), began at $37K, now makes $65K. I just accepted a job offer for $90K, with overtime payable... but I have 18 years experience, the past 8 being spent in the world of Java, EAI, J2EE and large distributed systems.
Don't believe the hype! IT is *still* a rewarding and highly lucrative career for those who are good at what they do and who enjoy what they do.
Bangladore...? Do you mean Bangladesh (the country), or Bangalore (the city in India)?