Donald Trump has 500+ job openings to fil in Washington, D.Cl. The only other qualification in addition to being a male WASP'er is not having said anything negative about him.
Really... A+ certs are quality? Color me shocked....
When I took the A+ certification 15 years ago, one of the exam questions was for Token Ring network. I thought that was stupid since Token Ring was obsolete network technology. Two years later... I worked on a Token Ring to Ethernet conversion project for 500 workstations. The 250 workstations I did were done correctly the first time. The 250 workstations done by two high school graduates without certifications were done wrong — and the project manager sent them home without double checking their work. I got an extra four hours of overtime by cleaning up their mistakes.
Windows Vista wasn't a bad OS if you threw adequate hardware at it. When I decided to upgrade from Windows XP, I built a new AMD system with a Vista-compatible motherboard, quad-core processor and 4GB. I've never had a problem running Vista, 7, 8 and 10 for nine years. I retire that motherboard combo last year for a newer Windows 7-compatible motherboard, eight-core processor and 8GB.
I don't know too many successful businesses that let someone from the Geek Squad run their IT department. Pay the extra money for someone with an A+/Network+ certifications.
His optimal solution required executing the query a million times and skipping the rows he had already seen. He couldn't figure out why my version ran for 15 seconds and his ran for 90 minutes
Ran into that problem myself. My team lead showed me how to do vlookup in Excel. We had identical laptops. It ran 15 seconds on her laptop and 90 minutes on my laptop. Turned out that my SharePoint spreadsheet was "dirty" with numerous hidden background calculations. I have to copy and paste the SharePoint data into a blank spreadsheet. Now vlookup takes 15 seconds.
This is akin to your car not starting and not being able to figure out that it is the battery and being able to jump it or having a flat tire and calling AAA to change it.
If my car has a problem, I take it to the mechanic. If I'm stranded on the road side, I call AAA. I pay these people good money to do a job that I don't want to do because I got better uses for my time.
Nobody hires anybody for a position "just because he is a man".
Sure they do. Being a man is your first qualification to some very exclusive jobs. Being a white male is your second qualification. Being Anglo-Saxon is your third qualification, which means no Irish, Italians, Jews or other minorities should apply. Being Protestant is your fourth qualification, which means no Catholics or Jews should apply. A recommendation from the boys at the WASP country club is a nice bonus qualification. With these qualifications, you will reach the top tiers of society.
Just look at the list : "fundamentals of networking, computing, and coding" from "acoustic consulting engineering firm, consisting of a mix of mechanical, electrical, civil ".
They need someone who has an A+/Network+ certifications and went through a coding boot camp or two.
Does he also expect them to write thier own compiler, all while willing to accept $50K starting salary?
Level-entry A+/Network+ techs typically start off at $30K per year in Silicon Valley.
When they scream about not enough male nurses [...]
I had several friends who dropped computer programming to go into healthcare because it was the new money major after the dot com bust. After a decade in the field, they make more money than I do but hate their jobs because all they do is wipe asses and change bedpans. Meanwhile, I'm enjoying my career in IT and my best paying contracts have been hospitals.
[...] and Kindergarten teachers, maybe we'll listen better.
I was encouraged by my college instructors to become a school teacher and took a child development course. When I went to a seminar at the local university, the sausage making that goes into becoming a teacher in California turned me off. The lingering suspicion that you might be a child molester for wanting to be a teacher never goes away.
Ask no questions, pay your dues, cross no picket lines, and don't expect anything from them.
You're doing it wrong. When my father had a problem he went straight to top, asked the receptionist which bar the union head was hiding in, and, after she blurts out the bar name, we confronted him in the bar. While father talked to the union head, I stood behind him to make sure he didn't run away. Union heads don't like messing up their $1,000 Italian suits.
They could just be lucky-idiots... but they did not walk in saying "hire me because I'm a man".
They got hired because they were dicks. Dicks tend to hire other dicks. I'm an asshole and I don't like dicks. I'm always happy to throw a dick or two under the bus.
If they 'actually had problems with having a woman manager' specifically because she is a woman, I'd be very surprised. It's an old trope.
Being old trope doesn't make it invalid. The guys who were let go were always yelling "Me! Me! Me!" when the female team lead was making a presentation before the full time staff. That's annoying. I tossed two under the bus by documenting their behaviors for HR. They were warned, they didn't change. No one returned their phone calls when their computer accounts and PIV card got cancelled.
The problem is cybersecurity is a pretty sucky job, a mindless head fuck.
Writing scripts fixes the headaches of securing thousands of workstations.
The bulk of cybersecurity is pretending to keep secure what you inherently can not keep secure.
The bulk of InfoSec is fixing existing problems as they are discovered and putting in preventative measures where necessary. Nothing will prevent a determined hacker from getting in. The ultimate goal is to make is so difficult to hack that they will move on to a softer target.
You will always lack the budget and resources and control to do the job properly, you juts pretend and hope for the best.
After several high-profile data breaches, Congress forked over the money to address these issues.
No, this news is about a type of woman that wants a high salary and a leadership positions solely because she happens to be a women.
You don't think men get high salary and leadership positions just because they're men? I know a lot of "men" who aren't qualified to be a man on a job.
Wait until el Presidente Tweetie learns of this. There will be a new Executive Order, No More Security Exploits of Government Systems, All Security Personnel Can Hence Be Given Their Walking Papers.
Uh, no. Congress approved and funded the contract. It's very unlikely that Congress will cancel the contract willy-nilly without evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Talks are underway for the next five-year contract.
[...] industry sycophants who come crawling to his Oval Office with baubles and trinkets to be used for the next election.
Uh, no. Trump has 500 positions to fill in Washington, D.C. He values loyalty above all else in employees. Finding 500 people who haven't said a negative thing about him is proving to be a serious personnel problem for his still born administration.
Not everyone is comfortable being a parasitic leech.
Those people are shocked to discover that government job means work and often find themselves back on the unemployment within two weeks. My coworkers and I have zero tolerance for slackers.
A PoliSci degree does no good for IT, let alone a specialty like IT Security.
I had a General Education A.A. degree when I started my technical career 20+ years ago as a video game tester. I later went back to school to get a Computer Programming A.S. degree. I'm currently doing InfoSec and studying for InfoSec certifications.
Can I take my 4 year Mathematics degree and instantly work in the Medical field? How about being a Sociologist? Journalist?
The average person will have five or six careers during their lifetime. Each career transition will require training to get started. What you learned from your four-year mathematics degree can be applicable to different and seemingly unrelated fields.
Do sane people actually have to contemplate why many people call "Leftism" a mental disease?
There are three women (10%) on the InfoSec team that I'm on at work. All three are team leaders. They kick ass in technological knowledge, carrying the work load, and getting stuff done on time. The few men who had problems with this found jobs elsewhere.
A screen lock prevents your ass from making calls while your phone is in the back pocket. A problem I had with an older smart phone when the touch screen got funky. I was always ass calling my boss when I crawled underneath desks for a PC refresh project.
Anyone who installs stuff like banking apps on his phone is asking for it, really.
I had to install the banking app on my iPhone because no web browser supports running the Java plugin for depositing checks remotely. I'm sure the bank will figure out someday that no one is depositing checks via the website.
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Statistically, they are irrelevant.
Donald Trump has 500+ job openings to fil in Washington, D.Cl. The only other qualification in addition to being a male WASP'er is not having said anything negative about him.
Really... A+ certs are quality? Color me shocked....
When I took the A+ certification 15 years ago, one of the exam questions was for Token Ring network. I thought that was stupid since Token Ring was obsolete network technology. Two years later... I worked on a Token Ring to Ethernet conversion project for 500 workstations. The 250 workstations I did were done correctly the first time. The 250 workstations done by two high school graduates without certifications were done wrong — and the project manager sent them home without double checking their work. I got an extra four hours of overtime by cleaning up their mistakes.
Did you really just suggest paying extra for someone with A+ certifications?
Yes. A Geek Squad tech is probably $10 per hour. An A+/Network+ tech is $15 per hour. That's the going rate in Silicon Valley.
You do not need a comp-sci background to install a virus checker, or update a few PCs.
Most A+/Network+ techs don't have a CS background. They may know how to code with PowerShell or Python.
Except that until they get there and fix it you're probably not doing much with that time.
I can always check email, browse the Internet and read The Wall Street Journal on my smart phone.
Windows Vista wasn't a bad OS if you threw adequate hardware at it. When I decided to upgrade from Windows XP, I built a new AMD system with a Vista-compatible motherboard, quad-core processor and 4GB. I've never had a problem running Vista, 7, 8 and 10 for nine years. I retire that motherboard combo last year for a newer Windows 7-compatible motherboard, eight-core processor and 8GB.
Any monkey with half a brain can learn IT jobs.
I don't know too many successful businesses that let someone from the Geek Squad run their IT department. Pay the extra money for someone with an A+/Network+ certifications.
His optimal solution required executing the query a million times and skipping the rows he had already seen. He couldn't figure out why my version ran for 15 seconds and his ran for 90 minutes
Ran into that problem myself. My team lead showed me how to do vlookup in Excel. We had identical laptops. It ran 15 seconds on her laptop and 90 minutes on my laptop. Turned out that my SharePoint spreadsheet was "dirty" with numerous hidden background calculations. I have to copy and paste the SharePoint data into a blank spreadsheet. Now vlookup takes 15 seconds.
This is akin to your car not starting and not being able to figure out that it is the battery and being able to jump it or having a flat tire and calling AAA to change it.
If my car has a problem, I take it to the mechanic. If I'm stranded on the road side, I call AAA. I pay these people good money to do a job that I don't want to do because I got better uses for my time.
Nobody hires anybody for a position "just because he is a man".
Sure they do. Being a man is your first qualification to some very exclusive jobs. Being a white male is your second qualification. Being Anglo-Saxon is your third qualification, which means no Irish, Italians, Jews or other minorities should apply. Being Protestant is your fourth qualification, which means no Catholics or Jews should apply. A recommendation from the boys at the WASP country club is a nice bonus qualification. With these qualifications, you will reach the top tiers of society.
Just look at the list : "fundamentals of networking, computing, and coding" from "acoustic consulting engineering firm, consisting of a mix of mechanical, electrical, civil ".
They need someone who has an A+/Network+ certifications and went through a coding boot camp or two.
Does he also expect them to write thier own compiler, all while willing to accept $50K starting salary?
Level-entry A+/Network+ techs typically start off at $30K per year in Silicon Valley.
When they scream about not enough male nurses [...]
I had several friends who dropped computer programming to go into healthcare because it was the new money major after the dot com bust. After a decade in the field, they make more money than I do but hate their jobs because all they do is wipe asses and change bedpans. Meanwhile, I'm enjoying my career in IT and my best paying contracts have been hospitals.
[...] and Kindergarten teachers, maybe we'll listen better.
I was encouraged by my college instructors to become a school teacher and took a child development course. When I went to a seminar at the local university, the sausage making that goes into becoming a teacher in California turned me off. The lingering suspicion that you might be a child molester for wanting to be a teacher never goes away.
Ask no questions, pay your dues, cross no picket lines, and don't expect anything from them.
You're doing it wrong. When my father had a problem he went straight to top, asked the receptionist which bar the union head was hiding in, and, after she blurts out the bar name, we confronted him in the bar. While father talked to the union head, I stood behind him to make sure he didn't run away. Union heads don't like messing up their $1,000 Italian suits.
They could just be lucky-idiots... but they did not walk in saying "hire me because I'm a man".
They got hired because they were dicks. Dicks tend to hire other dicks. I'm an asshole and I don't like dicks. I'm always happy to throw a dick or two under the bus.
If they 'actually had problems with having a woman manager' specifically because she is a woman, I'd be very surprised. It's an old trope.
Being old trope doesn't make it invalid. The guys who were let go were always yelling "Me! Me! Me!" when the female team lead was making a presentation before the full time staff. That's annoying. I tossed two under the bus by documenting their behaviors for HR. They were warned, they didn't change. No one returned their phone calls when their computer accounts and PIV card got cancelled.
The problem is cybersecurity is a pretty sucky job, a mindless head fuck.
Writing scripts fixes the headaches of securing thousands of workstations.
The bulk of cybersecurity is pretending to keep secure what you inherently can not keep secure.
The bulk of InfoSec is fixing existing problems as they are discovered and putting in preventative measures where necessary. Nothing will prevent a determined hacker from getting in. The ultimate goal is to make is so difficult to hack that they will move on to a softer target.
You will always lack the budget and resources and control to do the job properly, you juts pretend and hope for the best.
After several high-profile data breaches, Congress forked over the money to address these issues.
No, this news is about a type of woman that wants a high salary and a leadership positions solely because she happens to be a women.
You don't think men get high salary and leadership positions just because they're men? I know a lot of "men" who aren't qualified to be a man on a job.
Wait until el Presidente Tweetie learns of this. There will be a new Executive Order, No More Security Exploits of Government Systems, All Security Personnel Can Hence Be Given Their Walking Papers.
Uh, no. Congress approved and funded the contract. It's very unlikely that Congress will cancel the contract willy-nilly without evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Talks are underway for the next five-year contract.
[...] industry sycophants who come crawling to his Oval Office with baubles and trinkets to be used for the next election.
Uh, no. Trump has 500 positions to fill in Washington, D.C. He values loyalty above all else in employees. Finding 500 people who haven't said a negative thing about him is proving to be a serious personnel problem for his still born administration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/12/us/politics/trump-administration.html
Not everyone is comfortable being a parasitic leech.
Those people are shocked to discover that government job means work and often find themselves back on the unemployment within two weeks. My coworkers and I have zero tolerance for slackers.
A PoliSci degree does no good for IT, let alone a specialty like IT Security.
I had a General Education A.A. degree when I started my technical career 20+ years ago as a video game tester. I later went back to school to get a Computer Programming A.S. degree. I'm currently doing InfoSec and studying for InfoSec certifications.
Can I take my 4 year Mathematics degree and instantly work in the Medical field? How about being a Sociologist? Journalist?
The average person will have five or six careers during their lifetime. Each career transition will require training to get started. What you learned from your four-year mathematics degree can be applicable to different and seemingly unrelated fields.
Do sane people actually have to contemplate why many people call "Leftism" a mental disease?
What does this have to do with career choices?
Nothing in IT offers job security.
Except government IT. I'm halfway through a five-year contract. A recruiter just sent me a job description with an eight-year contract.
Of course, that's the problem for older men quite often too.
I'm the youngest at 47. Most of my coworkers are in their 60's and 70's.
There are three women (10%) on the InfoSec team that I'm on at work. All three are team leaders. They kick ass in technological knowledge, carrying the work load, and getting stuff done on time. The few men who had problems with this found jobs elsewhere.
what about keeping the phone in a front pocket?
Then it becomes a dick call.
A screen lock prevents your ass from making calls while your phone is in the back pocket. A problem I had with an older smart phone when the touch screen got funky. I was always ass calling my boss when I crawled underneath desks for a PC refresh project.
Anyone who installs stuff like banking apps on his phone is asking for it, really.
I had to install the banking app on my iPhone because no web browser supports running the Java plugin for depositing checks remotely. I'm sure the bank will figure out someday that no one is depositing checks via the website.
That my friend is where daisy wheel printers shined - typewriter quality text with all the convenience of a PC.
My electronic typewriter with a daisy wheel had an option for a parallel port connector at $200. Not something I could afford on a student budget.