Awesome! I made the president's list at my community college for maintaining a 4.0 GPA in Computer Programming while taking two classes, working 60+ hours as a lead video game tester, and teaching Sunday school.
I'm the guy your company brings in to clean up your mess after you screwed up the project. For example, I was given a blotched printer mitigation because the engineer ran the script without verifying his work and went on vacation. Took me a month to figure out that only half of the ~1,500 printers on the old Win2K3 print servers were for existing printers, find updated drivers, and set up the Win2K12 print servers. It didn't that the engineer came back from his vacation, pulled the old print servers a month ahead of schedule, and generated 100+ help desk tickets because there was no print service for three days. When I got done and the new print servers came online, those 100+ help desk tickets auotmagically disappeared. If I haven't pulled that miracle off, I would have been fired. I'm a $50K virtual ditch digger, not $200K fuck up.
we enjoy shitting on you.
I appreciate the extra traffic and ad revenues to my websites. Keep up the good work, asshats!
I can bench you 8 times.
You probably scream like a pregnant woman when you do. Those guys are so annoying at the gym.
[...] get paid less than the interns in silicon valley.
You mean the overpaid interns at the top five companies in Silicon Valley? When I was an intern in the late 1990's, I got paid $10 per hour at a Fortune 500 company. Having worked at Google and Facebook on contract, I'm not overly impressed by these wasteful expenditures of money.
are you trolling or is this your real life?
Real life. I have a demotivational poster in my home office: "Mistakes - It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others."
if it is your real life - for god's sake - stop bragging about being a loser.
A loser is someone who have given up. I've never given up. Eight years of Special Ed classes and skipping high school didn't prevent me from getting A.A. degree in General Education and, a decade later, A.S. degree in computer programming. Being out of work for two years and filing for bankruptcy in 2011 didn't prevent me from bouncing back and recovering financially six years later. Being told that I would drop dead at 10-, 20-, 30-, or 40-years-old because I was "morbidly obese" didn't prevent me from living.
what the hell is wrong with you?
These pissing matches generate quite a bit of traffic and ad revenues for my websites. Since I'm already on Slashdot, I might as well beat my own drum all the way to the bank.
you know what's wasteful? the sac of useless meat that is you. rock bottom.
That you keep comparing yourself to a virtual ditch digger is really sad. You must really suck among your peers who are doing much better than you. Must be that insecurity from knowing that you're one paycheck away from losing it all.
What you should so is ask one some of the security contractors/employees how they got their jobs.
CompTIA Security+ and ITIL Foundation are the baseline certifications at my current job. Beyond that it varies quite a bit. Microsoft Server and Redhat Linux certifications are common. Cisco Security is not that common. Since I previously worked at Cisco and built out a hardware rack (four switches and three routers) at home, I'll continue with that for certification.
Is that what they call Java programmers these days? Because of all the security holes they dig?
Virtual ditch diggers do the IT jobs that no one else wants to do: help desk, desktop, deployments, inventory and data center build outs. Not sure if I would add Java programmers to that list.
(1) you're making 50k in the highest paid geographical it market, after 20 years of experience - that's simply a joke.
Not for the line of work that I do. Remember, virtual ditch digger. Not programmer. Not developer. Not software architect. If you need a miracle worker, I'm the guy to call.
(2) you got kicked out of college.
I spent eight years in Special Ed classes, skipped high school, went to community college for four years (two years of remedial coursework and two years for General Education), transferred to the university, got kicked out of the university, and went back to school a decade later to get my A.S. degree in Computer Programming.
(3) you diet by eating weight gain bars for athletes and you're still a fucking elephant after 5 years.
I've been 350 pounds for last 10+ years. My nickname in school was "Titanic" not "Elephant Man".
(4) you think walking real slow is working out
I walk fast to put my heart rate into the cardio zone. The funny thing is that I have to walk slow when I'm with other people.
You actually are a dumbass.
If that makes you feel better to think that way, be my guest. People have thought much, much worse of me only to be proven wrong time after time.
After I was out of work for two years (2009-2010) and filed for Chapter Seven bankruptcy in 2011, I spent the next two years working multiple assignments from three different contracting agencies. All three used ADP for payroll. I would've been screwed if ADP threw a fit.
Because I'm a virtual ditch digger and virtual ditch diggers don't make $100K. That's why I'm studying for the Security+ and ITIL Foundation certifications this year, and probably the Cisco Security track next year. For my next job, I'll step up to $100K.
The GP's point was that they wouldn't be able to live locally, due to the rent. What might be happening is that these jobs are being filled by youngsters [...]
That entire premise is wrong. I'm seeing more and more senior citizens and fewer young people taking minimum wage jobs in my area of San Jose. I know people love to bitch and moan about how expensive Silicon Valley is, always ASSUMING that anyone making $100K or less must commute two hours each way from Stockton. I live in my own apartment in San Jose, I make $50K+ per year and I commute to Palo Alto on the Express Bus one-hour each way.
Perhaps Silicon Valley types rather spend their money at a full-service restaurant, where proportionally higher tips would make housing more in reach.
low-carb? Is that the diet where you eat Clif bars, Power bars, and Fiber One bars by the box?
From Monday through Friday I eat two energy bars for breakfast to "break fast" 12 hours after my last meal from the previous day. A three-month supply is ~120 bars (11 or 12 boxes) for $100 via Amazon and Walmart.
Or did you finally "make the necessary changes" when people pointed out to you that eating that shit was just as bad as eating candy bars all day?
I make changes based on my data and not someone else's opinion. For example, an asshat told me that TWO Snickers were healthier than two energy bars. When I compared the labels that proved that energy bars were better (except for sodium), the asshat changed his position to ONE Snickers bar. When I called him on that, he claimed it was sarcasm. This isn't the first time that an asshat has deliberately given me bad diet advice to ruin my health.
Maybe you don't notice the bubble because you were born in it.
Or maybe I see more of the underbelly because I take public transit. At $50K+ per year, I make more money than the people who clean toilets and the homeless who ride the bus.
I grew up in Appalachia (eastern Tennessee) and now live in San Jose. To me, it is like two different planets.
That's how I feel when I visit my extended family in Idaho. Never seen a place so full of white people. If you want to see a Chinese person, you go to the laundry matt or takeout place. If you want to see a Mexican person, go to the Mexican restaurant. If you want to see a black person tell an off-color joke to a white five-year-old boy, go to the rodeo. My relatives are terrified of Silicon Valley, where half the homes with children speak a language other than English.
Work at a Fortune 500 company with stock options for the employees. "On, no! Stock down thirty-cents after lunch!! The bank is going to repossess my second Tesla!!!"
I couldn't take fart at Cisco without someone checking the stock price on their cellphone.
a guy making the same as an intro-level college graduate after 20 years of experience in an industry.
I don't have a high school diploma and I don't have university degree. I do have two associate degrees (A.A. in General Education and A.S. in Computer Programming) and no student loans. I deliberately went into IT Support because I enjoy the work. It's not fair to compare me to a recent college graduate with $100K in student loans and no expectations to pay them off in this lifetime.
rock bottom is having to plow through a bowl of prozac just to get through the day without jumping off the overpass because of your shitty life.
As I explained in a previous post, I've never taken anti-depressants. I don't need them because I don't let shitheads like you tear me down.
don't ever leave that prescription at home. you might kill someone driving.
I pay $140 per month to take the express bus to work. Traffic in Palo Alto is insane on the best of days.
good thing this is not a site for shitheads.
Please turn in your geek creds and don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.
Sure, but knowing the costs it takes to live in those areas one has to ask themselves why bother?
It's something that most people don't take into consideration. In my case, I was born and raised in Silicon Valley before it became Silicon Valley. Back then orchards and canneries outnumbered tech companies and a three-bedroom home cost $32K (which 30 years later would sell for $1M).
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This is a site for nerds (smart people).
Awesome! I made the president's list at my community college for maintaining a 4.0 GPA in Computer Programming while taking two classes, working 60+ hours as a lead video game tester, and teaching Sunday school.
i don't know what a virtual ditch digger is.
I'm the guy your company brings in to clean up your mess after you screwed up the project. For example, I was given a blotched printer mitigation because the engineer ran the script without verifying his work and went on vacation. Took me a month to figure out that only half of the ~1,500 printers on the old Win2K3 print servers were for existing printers, find updated drivers, and set up the Win2K12 print servers. It didn't that the engineer came back from his vacation, pulled the old print servers a month ahead of schedule, and generated 100+ help desk tickets because there was no print service for three days. When I got done and the new print servers came online, those 100+ help desk tickets auotmagically disappeared. If I haven't pulled that miracle off, I would have been fired. I'm a $50K virtual ditch digger, not $200K fuck up.
we enjoy shitting on you.
I appreciate the extra traffic and ad revenues to my websites. Keep up the good work, asshats!
I can bench you 8 times.
You probably scream like a pregnant woman when you do. Those guys are so annoying at the gym.
[...] get paid less than the interns in silicon valley.
You mean the overpaid interns at the top five companies in Silicon Valley? When I was an intern in the late 1990's, I got paid $10 per hour at a Fortune 500 company. Having worked at Google and Facebook on contract, I'm not overly impressed by these wasteful expenditures of money.
are you trolling or is this your real life?
Real life. I have a demotivational poster in my home office: "Mistakes - It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others."
https://despair.com/collections/demotivators/products/mistakes
if it is your real life - for god's sake - stop bragging about being a loser.
A loser is someone who have given up. I've never given up. Eight years of Special Ed classes and skipping high school didn't prevent me from getting A.A. degree in General Education and, a decade later, A.S. degree in computer programming. Being out of work for two years and filing for bankruptcy in 2011 didn't prevent me from bouncing back and recovering financially six years later. Being told that I would drop dead at 10-, 20-, 30-, or 40-years-old because I was "morbidly obese" didn't prevent me from living.
what the hell is wrong with you?
These pissing matches generate quite a bit of traffic and ad revenues for my websites. Since I'm already on Slashdot, I might as well beat my own drum all the way to the bank.
you know what's wasteful? the sac of useless meat that is you. rock bottom.
That you keep comparing yourself to a virtual ditch digger is really sad. You must really suck among your peers who are doing much better than you. Must be that insecurity from knowing that you're one paycheck away from losing it all.
What you should so is ask one some of the security contractors/employees how they got their jobs.
CompTIA Security+ and ITIL Foundation are the baseline certifications at my current job. Beyond that it varies quite a bit. Microsoft Server and Redhat Linux certifications are common. Cisco Security is not that common. Since I previously worked at Cisco and built out a hardware rack (four switches and three routers) at home, I'll continue with that for certification.
I wonder how many dozens of American manufacturing workers are required to operate a $1 billion automated factory.
Not as many as people think they might. When John Deere opened a new factory, they had 10,000 applications for 800 positions.
i'll assume some comic book loser shit an adult is into for some reason, which is not because his kids like it
I read the Watchmen when I was in college. This is definitely not a graphic novel for kids to read.
Is that what they call Java programmers these days? Because of all the security holes they dig?
Virtual ditch diggers do the IT jobs that no one else wants to do: help desk, desktop, deployments, inventory and data center build outs. Not sure if I would add Java programmers to that list.
That still works?
No clue.
I discovered that during a 2 yr contract job with IBM Global Services more than 10 years ago
That was the inside joke when I worked the IBM Help Desk in 2005.
i'm the asshat alcoholic who drinks a glass of really good wine.
Now that you admitted that you have a problem, what are you gonna do about it? Dropping $3K a night on wine is shameful.
(1) you're making 50k in the highest paid geographical it market, after 20 years of experience - that's simply a joke.
Not for the line of work that I do. Remember, virtual ditch digger. Not programmer. Not developer. Not software architect. If you need a miracle worker, I'm the guy to call.
(2) you got kicked out of college.
I spent eight years in Special Ed classes, skipped high school, went to community college for four years (two years of remedial coursework and two years for General Education), transferred to the university, got kicked out of the university, and went back to school a decade later to get my A.S. degree in Computer Programming.
(3) you diet by eating weight gain bars for athletes and you're still a fucking elephant after 5 years.
I've been 350 pounds for last 10+ years. My nickname in school was "Titanic" not "Elephant Man".
(4) you think walking real slow is working out
I walk fast to put my heart rate into the cardio zone. The funny thing is that I have to walk slow when I'm with other people.
You actually are a dumbass.
If that makes you feel better to think that way, be my guest. People have thought much, much worse of me only to be proven wrong time after time.
After I was out of work for two years (2009-2010) and filed for Chapter Seven bankruptcy in 2011, I spent the next two years working multiple assignments from three different contracting agencies. All three used ADP for payroll. I would've been screwed if ADP threw a fit.
Why not make 100k in the valley?
Because I'm a virtual ditch digger and virtual ditch diggers don't make $100K. That's why I'm studying for the Security+ and ITIL Foundation certifications this year, and probably the Cisco Security track next year. For my next job, I'll step up to $100K.
The GP's point was that they wouldn't be able to live locally, due to the rent. What might be happening is that these jobs are being filled by youngsters [...]
That entire premise is wrong. I'm seeing more and more senior citizens and fewer young people taking minimum wage jobs in my area of San Jose. I know people love to bitch and moan about how expensive Silicon Valley is, always ASSUMING that anyone making $100K or less must commute two hours each way from Stockton. I live in my own apartment in San Jose, I make $50K+ per year and I commute to Palo Alto on the Express Bus one-hour each way.
Perhaps Silicon Valley types rather spend their money at a full-service restaurant, where proportionally higher tips would make housing more in reach.
You're joking, right?
http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/01/24/whats-behind-the-spate-of-recent-bay-area-restaurant-closures/
low-carb? Is that the diet where you eat Clif bars, Power bars, and Fiber One bars by the box?
From Monday through Friday I eat two energy bars for breakfast to "break fast" 12 hours after my last meal from the previous day. A three-month supply is ~120 bars (11 or 12 boxes) for $100 via Amazon and Walmart.
Or did you finally "make the necessary changes" when people pointed out to you that eating that shit was just as bad as eating candy bars all day?
I make changes based on my data and not someone else's opinion. For example, an asshat told me that TWO Snickers were healthier than two energy bars. When I compared the labels that proved that energy bars were better (except for sodium), the asshat changed his position to ONE Snickers bar. When I called him on that, he claimed it was sarcasm. This isn't the first time that an asshat has deliberately given me bad diet advice to ruin my health.
The best criminal enterprises are run out of the Club Fed.
i make fun of you for walking 3mph, you provide a link with a photo of it. what point are you trying to make?
I'm not ashamed of my workout, as some asshat here made a huge fuss about over the weekend.
you don't take antidepressants (yet?).
Never have, never will.
oh boy is it about to get shitty for you when you relapse off your diet. and you will - all fat losers do.
I've been on a low-carb diet for five years, making changes where necessary.
your comprehension mistakes are exactly the ones mediocre fat somewhat slow it people make.
I'm doing it on purpose, dumbass.
you're not a geek. you are some helpdesk monkey who can maybe write a little script, on a site full of actual geeks.
I haven't done help desk in ten years.
Gilroy.
I would say East San Jose. The Walmart in Gilroy is where you can find all the white trailer trash.
We need sad losers to to diss and shit on for relaxation.
Rorschach (The Watchmen): "I am not locked in here with you. You are locked in with me!"
Maybe you don't notice the bubble because you were born in it.
Or maybe I see more of the underbelly because I take public transit. At $50K+ per year, I make more money than the people who clean toilets and the homeless who ride the bus.
I grew up in Appalachia (eastern Tennessee) and now live in San Jose. To me, it is like two different planets.
That's how I feel when I visit my extended family in Idaho. Never seen a place so full of white people. If you want to see a Chinese person, you go to the laundry matt or takeout place. If you want to see a Mexican person, go to the Mexican restaurant. If you want to see a black person tell an off-color joke to a white five-year-old boy, go to the rodeo. My relatives are terrified of Silicon Valley, where half the homes with children speak a language other than English.
If I had creimer's life, that's exactly what I'd have to do.
JUMP! JUMP! JUMP!
Or something like that, HehHeh
Work at a Fortune 500 company with stock options for the employees. "On, no! Stock down thirty-cents after lunch!! The bank is going to repossess my second Tesla!!!"
I couldn't take fart at Cisco without someone checking the stock price on their cellphone.
you walk 3mph during your workouts - super athlete.
https://twitter.com/cdreimer/status/858405712317210624
a guy making the same as an intro-level college graduate after 20 years of experience in an industry.
I don't have a high school diploma and I don't have university degree. I do have two associate degrees (A.A. in General Education and A.S. in Computer Programming) and no student loans. I deliberately went into IT Support because I enjoy the work. It's not fair to compare me to a recent college graduate with $100K in student loans and no expectations to pay them off in this lifetime.
rock bottom is having to plow through a bowl of prozac just to get through the day without jumping off the overpass because of your shitty life.
As I explained in a previous post, I've never taken anti-depressants. I don't need them because I don't let shitheads like you tear me down.
don't ever leave that prescription at home. you might kill someone driving.
I pay $140 per month to take the express bus to work. Traffic in Palo Alto is insane on the best of days.
good thing this is not a site for shitheads.
Please turn in your geek creds and don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.
Sure, but knowing the costs it takes to live in those areas one has to ask themselves why bother?
It's something that most people don't take into consideration. In my case, I was born and raised in Silicon Valley before it became Silicon Valley. Back then orchards and canneries outnumbered tech companies and a three-bedroom home cost $32K (which 30 years later would sell for $1M).
What is "being on a six-contract"? Asking honestly as I do not understand what that means. Six months?
My bad. A six-month contract.