I would hope so, because this thing is gonna move more dust than the US southern plains in the 1930's (the Dust Bowl for you non-US folks).
Kinda reminds me of the time I tried to clean out the dryer vent by attaching a leaf-blower to the tube. Unfortunately, I didn't realize that the tube wasn't well connected to the port leading out of the house. My wife, who had just finished folding laundry, was not amused. My kid thought it was funny as hell though.
I find the responses to this very interesting. Personally, I am no longer interested in software development in general. I've been doing it (although I'm doing more managing now than coding) for 10+ years, and every year I ask more often the question "why"?
You know all that code you're writing? It's got a lifetime of what, maybe 5 years, 10 if you're lucky, 20+ if it's COBOL (couldn't resist). The more I zoom out when I think about the stuff I've helped to develop (mostly for the advancement of large corporations in some form or another), I can't help but feel sour about software development in general.
Once I started to realize what I thought of work and coding, I began to do everything possible to minimize the hours I spend working or thinking about work and maximizing the hours I spend doing the things that might actually contribute to those qualities that I value and want to develop in myself. I can tell you that those have nothing to do with technology. Not that you'll be able to find all this out in college, but it didn't take long after graduation to fall out of love with programming (at least for me).
The best thing I took away from college were the friendships that I formed. In retrospect, I would gladly piss away another test or two for the opportunity to meet a few more people, have a few more drinks, do the crazy shit that I will remember until I'm crapping in depends.
One thing I know for sure - On my deathbed, I'm certainly not going to wish I'd been able to write a few more lines of code.
As one of the people doing some hiring and who employs a diverse group of people, including H1B's, I can say that they're not all that much cheaper, at least where we are. I haven't even seen an H1B come across my desk at 50k or less.
When hiring we do look for the technical skills, but more important than that is the candidate's work experience:
-What type of development have they done? -What kind of systems have they developed? -Can they communicate well enough to speak with business users?
-Do they have any experience working in our industry (financial)?
-Do they have any additional schooling or business certifications (NOT MCSE, MCSD, or similar) that would be of use?
In the latest round of hiring, it has taken anywhere from 15-30 interviews before we find someone to fill a position. That's not including the resumes that we reject outright and those that our recruiters filter out before we even see them.
It's true that employers are picky, but I believe they have also realied that IT Development is a unique environment in that one highly skilled developer can sometimes be more effective than 5 or more average developers. The fact is that we have significantly raised our standards for the people we are willing to hire.
In case anyone finds it of use, here is a site with history of the electoral college.
Personally, I thought the EC was complete bunk until I read through some of the more interesting bits on the reasons why. Not that I am now in complete agreement, but there is some sense to it.
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." -Groucho Marx
I actually pasted your post into Word just to see what it would suggest. I'll have you know that "yourself" should actually be "you", and "checker's" should be plain old "checkers".
So you see, Word's grammar checker actually can be helpfu... uh... nevermind.
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I would hope so, because this thing is gonna move more dust than the US southern plains in the 1930's (the Dust Bowl for you non-US folks).
Kinda reminds me of the time I tried to clean out the dryer vent by attaching a leaf-blower to the tube. Unfortunately, I didn't realize that the tube wasn't well connected to the port leading out of the house. My wife, who had just finished folding laundry, was not amused. My kid thought it was funny as hell though.
I think he was commenting on the fact that your reply sorta Ran Amok... oh, wait...
I find the responses to this very interesting. Personally, I am no longer interested in software development in general. I've been doing it (although I'm doing more managing now than coding) for 10+ years, and every year I ask more often the question "why"?
You know all that code you're writing? It's got a lifetime of what, maybe 5 years, 10 if you're lucky, 20+ if it's COBOL (couldn't resist). The more I zoom out when I think about the stuff I've helped to develop (mostly for the advancement of large corporations in some form or another), I can't help but feel sour about software development in general.
Once I started to realize what I thought of work and coding, I began to do everything possible to minimize the hours I spend working or thinking about work and maximizing the hours I spend doing the things that might actually contribute to those qualities that I value and want to develop in myself. I can tell you that those have nothing to do with technology. Not that you'll be able to find all this out in college, but it didn't take long after graduation to fall out of love with programming (at least for me).
The best thing I took away from college were the friendships that I formed. In retrospect, I would gladly piss away another test or two for the opportunity to meet a few more people, have a few more drinks, do the crazy shit that I will remember until I'm crapping in depends.
One thing I know for sure - On my deathbed, I'm certainly not going to wish I'd been able to write a few more lines of code.
As one of the people doing some hiring and who employs a diverse group of people, including H1B's, I can say that they're not all that much cheaper, at least where we are. I haven't even seen an H1B come across my desk at 50k or less.
When hiring we do look for the technical skills, but more important than that is the candidate's work experience:
-What type of development have they done?
-What kind of systems have they developed?
-Can they communicate well enough to speak with business users?
-Do they have any experience working in our industry (financial)?
-Do they have any additional schooling or business certifications (NOT MCSE, MCSD, or similar) that would be of use?
In the latest round of hiring, it has taken anywhere from 15-30 interviews before we find someone to fill a position. That's not including the resumes that we reject outright and those that our recruiters filter out before we even see them.
It's true that employers are picky, but I believe they have also realied that IT Development is a unique environment in that one highly skilled developer can sometimes be more effective than 5 or more average developers. The fact is that we have significantly raised our standards for the people we are willing to hire.
In case anyone finds it of use, here is a site with history of the electoral college.
Personally, I thought the EC was complete bunk until I read through some of the more interesting bits on the reasons why. Not that I am now in complete agreement, but there is some sense to it.
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." -Groucho Marx
Spoken like a graduate of the Brady Bunch school of parenting
Christ, I hated Peter.
I actually pasted your post into Word just to see what it would suggest. I'll have you know that "yourself" should actually be "you", and "checker's" should be plain old "checkers".
So you see, Word's grammar checker actually can be helpfu... uh... nevermind.