Ad copy promoting using Linux to connect to their service? Most of the big service providers include software to configure your connection if you're on a Windows PC, and fill your computer with advertising at the same time, for which the service provider is probably paid. Promoting a connection that potentially bypasses all that ad revenue seems to be shooting yourself in the foot, if you're Sprint.
"Visitors will wear small electronic pins, which will let the computers know who and where they are." He's got a hardware version of Passport in his house . . .
If you've got the funding to afford college, you've got nothing to lose by going, unless you're exceptionally gifted and stand to make lots of money in the short term by working instead. If you don't have a high-paying job lined up, look at it this way. You work for four years at the low end of the IT pay scale, and you have experience and little to no debt (provided you're responsible). Plus, you can work part time on your education if it suits you. Going to school full time, you could still work part time in the field. Even though you might have debt from college loans, you're going to have a better chance at a job when you get out. A few of the simpler certifications you could obtain while going to college, they're so easy (W2K Pro MCP comes to mind, which isn't worth much, but hey, it's cheap to get) I'd say hit the books first. (The other poster who mentioned the dating possibilities was entirely correct: many, many women look for college-educated males. It's a breeding thing) Now, I have a question. I am 30, and I don't have a degree. I completed about two years of college, and I've been working ever since. Most of my experience has been help desk and hardware support, system building, and some management experience. I have a few certs, but nothing eyecatching to headhunters. I am in a fairly lucrative position now, but it's a year long contract, and I don't know how long they will continue to fund it (military). I would like to put myself in a much more secure position as far as my career prospects. I have a 401-K to borrow against, and I could save up as much as two years tuition as a state college within one year, given my current expenses. Is it going to be worth it to try and finish my IT degree (most likely MIS), given that I might be 35 by the time I do, or do I just need to find that government janitorial job soon, and give up my hopes of home ownership and marriage?
I work as a "system administrator" (this title is misleading, it's really just help desk support, plus some administrative tasks) on a contract for the military. The management style here could be described as "winging it," on a good day. There are only two people on the contract, with a user base of 400 people, and a single government employee in the office with us, but the "task leader" for the project insists on all tasks being shuttled through him. You can imagine the absurdity of it.
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE: Say, task leader, we need to get these computers deployed. TASK LEADER: Well, *technically* we can't do that because that contract that I'm not supposed to have access to says , and even though my job description doesn't list contract negotiation, I think we need to see about including in the next contract. However, I think for today, we can go ahead and do that. Hey, I need you to.
I've worked for some doozies, but this guy takes the cake as far as management goes. The contracting company allows for this kind of situation, though, since they seem to encourage keeping things quiet, so as not to upset the "customer" (i.e. the government). I don't know that any of the contract leaders I've worked with since I've been contracting for the military have had any training in managing people, and the tasks suffer for it. The work gets performed, but management ends up alienating the employees. I guess if the task is performed, it doesn't really matter how it gets done, right?
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Ad copy promoting using Linux to connect to their service? Most of the big service providers include software to configure your connection if you're on a Windows PC, and fill your computer with advertising at the same time, for which the service provider is probably paid. Promoting a connection that potentially bypasses all that ad revenue seems to be shooting yourself in the foot, if you're Sprint.
"Visitors will wear small electronic pins, which will let the computers know who and where they are." He's got a hardware version of Passport in his house . . .
If you've got the funding to afford college, you've got nothing to lose by going, unless you're exceptionally gifted and stand to make lots of money in the short term by working instead. If you don't have a high-paying job lined up, look at it this way. You work for four years at the low end of the IT pay scale, and you have experience and little to no debt (provided you're responsible). Plus, you can work part time on your education if it suits you. Going to school full time, you could still work part time in the field. Even though you might have debt from college loans, you're going to have a better chance at a job when you get out. A few of the simpler certifications you could obtain while going to college, they're so easy (W2K Pro MCP comes to mind, which isn't worth much, but hey, it's cheap to get) I'd say hit the books first. (The other poster who mentioned the dating possibilities was entirely correct: many, many women look for college-educated males. It's a breeding thing)
Now, I have a question. I am 30, and I don't have a degree. I completed about two years of college, and I've been working ever since. Most of my experience has been help desk and hardware support, system building, and some management experience. I have a few certs, but nothing eyecatching to headhunters. I am in a fairly lucrative position now, but it's a year long contract, and I don't know how long they will continue to fund it (military). I would like to put myself in a much more secure position as far as my career prospects. I have a 401-K to borrow against, and I could save up as much as two years tuition as a state college within one year, given my current expenses. Is it going to be worth it to try and finish my IT degree (most likely MIS), given that I might be 35 by the time I do, or do I just need to find that government janitorial job soon, and give up my hopes of home ownership and marriage?
I work as a "system administrator" (this title is misleading, it's really just help desk support, plus some administrative tasks) on a contract for the military. The management style here could be described as "winging it," on a good day. There are only two people on the contract, with a user base of 400 people, and a single government employee in the office with us, but the "task leader" for the project insists on all tasks being shuttled through him. You can imagine the absurdity of it.
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GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE: Say, task leader, we need to get these computers deployed.
TASK LEADER: Well, *technically* we can't do that because that contract that I'm not supposed to have access to says , and even though my job description doesn't list contract negotiation, I think we need to see about including in the next contract. However, I think for today, we can go ahead and do that. Hey, I need you to
I've worked for some doozies, but this guy takes the cake as far as management goes. The contracting company allows for this kind of situation, though, since they seem to encourage keeping things quiet, so as not to upset the "customer" (i.e. the government). I don't know that any of the contract leaders I've worked with since I've been contracting for the military have had any training in managing people, and the tasks suffer for it. The work gets performed, but management ends up alienating the employees. I guess if the task is performed, it doesn't really matter how it gets done, right?
- jmm