I'm currently converting an old WordPress blog into a static website, using Python to extract content from the MySQL database into array structures and files, using PIP as the MVC framework on a PHP LAMP stack, and following standard OOP practices, documentation and unit testing.
If you're having trouble with recruiters, focus heavily on the languages you've worked in and the types of contributions you've made programming in those languages.
My community college only taught Java because it couldn't afford the Microsoft site license for Visual Studio C++. Needless to say, the job market then didn't need another fresh out of college Java programmer. My most notable programming achievement was writing an XML parser from scratch.
Gotta put something other than "Attended college 2010-2014":/
I went back to school on a part-time basis from 2002 to 2007 while working 80 hours a week as lead video game tester for three years and working 40 hours a week as help desk technician for the remaining two years. I also made the president's list for maintaining a 4.0 GPA in my major.
Weight lifting took me from 350 pounds to 375 pounds before I discovered that 3XL clothing is hard to come at the stores. I'm now slimming down in the other direction with a low-carb diet that puts me at a borderline XL/2XL for clothing. Except for my weight, my medical stats are in the normal range.
I read a similar story in the Microsoft CompTIA Security+ guidebook. Tthe guy outsourced his five remote jobs to people in China. He got caught when a security specialist for one company conducted an audit and noticed that the VPN token was logging in from China. Opps... He kissed five paychecks goodbye.
I couldn't get a programming job after I graduated with an A.S. degree in computer programming in 2007. It didn't help that I was a help desk technician while going to school. Most recruiters won't consider you for anything else than the last position you held. Once a help desk technician, always a help desk technician.
Every Fortune 500 company has a certain level of corporate dysfunction. This particular company didn't want to pay for training. Another company has a $1M in brand new PCs setting in a warehouse because they couldn't identify which old PCs needed replacement. The list goes on and on.
The trick is to hire a new H1B worker for every laid off American worker to maintain a relative headcount in the business. Unless Wall Street looks past the PR announcement and dig into the quarterly filings, analysts and investors won't notice.
I know a man who is 44, weighs I'm sure over 350 lbs, and spends all his time on his couch eating junk food and watching TV. He struggles to walk across a boxbox store without tiring.
I'm 45 and weigh 350 pounds. I eat a low-carb diet, haven't watched TV in 20 years and don't even own a couch. I know younger, skinner people who can't keep up with me when I'm on a power walk. Age and weight is irrelevant, it's all about motivation to live.
Despite smoking 30 years and not smoking for 30 years, my father died six weeks after his 75th birthday. He lived a fairly active life until the last few months of his life when he started taking morphine for his throat cancer. He retired on his 60th birthday since most of his brothers died before their 65th birthday. He did pretty well with his pension and social security benefits.
This particular Fortune 500 company is beloved by Wall Street for slashing headcount by 10% each year and the CEO giving himself a raise regardless of the company's performance.
You're cheaper to train up to a new internal position than to find someone new and start from scratch.
Training budgets at most Fortune 500 companies were cut at the behest of Wall Street years ago. If you want training, you need to pay for it yourself. Especially if you're responding to job descriptions that require five years of experience in a new technology that came out six months ago.
I once worked at a Fortune 500 company in Silicon Valley that didn't want to train employees because they might get certified, leave for a competitor, and make two to three times what they're currently making. Never mind that most employees were training themselves on company time, getting certified on their own time, and leaving for a competitor to make big bucks. Most companies just don't want to pay for training anymore, much less send people off to conferences where they might network and get hired by a competitor.
You would consider divorcing your wife just because her mother won't get the latest iPad?
The iPad 2 is compatible with Mother-in-Law version 1.0 or lower. Newer iPads requires Mother-in-Law version 2.0 or higher. Each new version of Mother-in-Law gets more bitchier than the last version. Not upgrading is a wise decision.
I ran my Joomla/Wordpress websites for over five years without problems. When both types of websites became unstable at the same time several months ago, I complained to the web hosting company. Not surprisingly, they denied that the problem was on their end. That's when I took EXTRA steps to harden my websites against hackers.
I graduated from the eighth grade, skipped high school and got my A.A. in General Education in 1994. I became a software tester by accident when my roommate's company was hiring for a level-entry position in 1997. I went back to school in 2002 to get an A.S. in Computer Programming, which I finished in 2007 after taking classes on part-time basis and working 40 hours a week. Since this was a career transition, my second associate degree was paid for by Uncle Sam with a $3,000 USD tax credit.
When I was a grad student, part of my job was running the security lab. I could reimage the entire lab(about 75 machines) in less than 15 minutes.
Lab computers with NO USER DATA can be reimaged in 15 minutes. I have imaged 3,000+ brand new computers for various PC refresh projects, but transferring gigabytes of USER DATA between computers still take time. Users tend to get upset if their data goes missing.
You are incompetent and inept, which is what people with multiple AA degrees are.
So says the Anonymous Coward with lab experience and no real world experience.
At least get an AS degree if you are going to stay in the kiddie pool.
I have an A.A. degree in General Education (1994) and a A.S. in Computer Programming (2007). You can only have one A.A. degree but multiple A.S. degrees from the community college system. As for my A.S. degree, I made the president's list for maintaining a 4.0 GPA while working 40 hours a week as a technician and taking classes part-time for five years.
You showed that you have no clue about programming, computer and network security or how computers actually work and you rip on someone else that is more intelligent and educated than you?
When I worked at Google in 2008, I had to demonstrate to a software engineer how to turn on his computer because his intelligence and education never prepared him for the real world. Most software engineers are really clueless when it comes to working with hardware.
You should go get another AA to boost your cred.
I'm working on the CompTIA Security+ certification for my government job as a security support specialist. After that I'll get my ITIL Foundation certification since I'm working for an ITIL organization. The next step after that is the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) and the CCNA Security certifications. Just because I have two associate degrees doesn't mean that my education is over.
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I'm currently converting an old WordPress blog into a static website, using Python to extract content from the MySQL database into array structures and files, using PIP as the MVC framework on a PHP LAMP stack, and following standard OOP practices, documentation and unit testing.
If you're having trouble with recruiters, focus heavily on the languages you've worked in and the types of contributions you've made programming in those languages.
My community college only taught Java because it couldn't afford the Microsoft site license for Visual Studio C++. Needless to say, the job market then didn't need another fresh out of college Java programmer. My most notable programming achievement was writing an XML parser from scratch.
Gotta put something other than "Attended college 2010-2014" :/
I went back to school on a part-time basis from 2002 to 2007 while working 80 hours a week as lead video game tester for three years and working 40 hours a week as help desk technician for the remaining two years. I also made the president's list for maintaining a 4.0 GPA in my major.
Weight lifting took me from 350 pounds to 375 pounds before I discovered that 3XL clothing is hard to come at the stores. I'm now slimming down in the other direction with a low-carb diet that puts me at a borderline XL/2XL for clothing. Except for my weight, my medical stats are in the normal range.
I read a similar story in the Microsoft CompTIA Security+ guidebook. Tthe guy outsourced his five remote jobs to people in China. He got caught when a security specialist for one company conducted an audit and noticed that the VPN token was logging in from China. Opps... He kissed five paychecks goodbye.
Has software development changed so much in the last 6 years I was in school or is my job hunting strategy completely wrong?
Hint: Great Recession.
If you have the discipline to write good code, you can write good code in PHP.
I couldn't get a programming job after I graduated with an A.S. degree in computer programming in 2007. It didn't help that I was a help desk technician while going to school. Most recruiters won't consider you for anything else than the last position you held. Once a help desk technician, always a help desk technician.
You mean Google+ is finally coming out of beta?
Every Fortune 500 company has a certain level of corporate dysfunction. This particular company didn't want to pay for training. Another company has a $1M in brand new PCs setting in a warehouse because they couldn't identify which old PCs needed replacement. The list goes on and on.
I was hoping for a more intelligent response from the AC crowd. Oh, well.
The trick is to hire a new H1B worker for every laid off American worker to maintain a relative headcount in the business. Unless Wall Street looks past the PR announcement and dig into the quarterly filings, analysts and investors won't notice.
I know a man who is 44, weighs I'm sure over 350 lbs, and spends all his time on his couch eating junk food and watching TV. He struggles to walk across a boxbox store without tiring.
I'm 45 and weigh 350 pounds. I eat a low-carb diet, haven't watched TV in 20 years and don't even own a couch. I know younger, skinner people who can't keep up with me when I'm on a power walk. Age and weight is irrelevant, it's all about motivation to live.
Despite smoking 30 years and not smoking for 30 years, my father died six weeks after his 75th birthday. He lived a fairly active life until the last few months of his life when he started taking morphine for his throat cancer. He retired on his 60th birthday since most of his brothers died before their 65th birthday. He did pretty well with his pension and social security benefits.
This particular Fortune 500 company is beloved by Wall Street for slashing headcount by 10% each year and the CEO giving himself a raise regardless of the company's performance.
You're cheaper to train up to a new internal position than to find someone new and start from scratch.
Training budgets at most Fortune 500 companies were cut at the behest of Wall Street years ago. If you want training, you need to pay for it yourself. Especially if you're responding to job descriptions that require five years of experience in a new technology that came out six months ago.
I once worked at a Fortune 500 company in Silicon Valley that didn't want to train employees because they might get certified, leave for a competitor, and make two to three times what they're currently making. Never mind that most employees were training themselves on company time, getting certified on their own time, and leaving for a competitor to make big bucks. Most companies just don't want to pay for training anymore, much less send people off to conferences where they might network and get hired by a competitor.
That's what I noticed on my own iPad 2. This is something I expect Apple to fix.
The iPad 2 is 29% of the iPad market share. I expect IOS 8.1 to fix any lingering issues just as IOS 7.1 did.
You would consider divorcing your wife just because her mother won't get the latest iPad?
The iPad 2 is compatible with Mother-in-Law version 1.0 or lower. Newer iPads requires Mother-in-Law version 2.0 or higher. Each new version of Mother-in-Law gets more bitchier than the last version. Not upgrading is a wise decision.
I ran my Joomla/Wordpress websites for over five years without problems. When both types of websites became unstable at the same time several months ago, I complained to the web hosting company. Not surprisingly, they denied that the problem was on their end. That's when I took EXTRA steps to harden my websites against hackers.
Sorry. I don't post as AC. I stand behind all my opinions.
I graduated from the eighth grade, skipped high school and got my A.A. in General Education in 1994. I became a software tester by accident when my roommate's company was hiring for a level-entry position in 1997. I went back to school in 2002 to get an A.S. in Computer Programming, which I finished in 2007 after taking classes on part-time basis and working 40 hours a week. Since this was a career transition, my second associate degree was paid for by Uncle Sam with a $3,000 USD tax credit.
When I was a grad student, part of my job was running the security lab. I could reimage the entire lab(about 75 machines) in less than 15 minutes.
Lab computers with NO USER DATA can be reimaged in 15 minutes. I have imaged 3,000+ brand new computers for various PC refresh projects, but transferring gigabytes of USER DATA between computers still take time. Users tend to get upset if their data goes missing.
You are incompetent and inept, which is what people with multiple AA degrees are.
So says the Anonymous Coward with lab experience and no real world experience.
At least get an AS degree if you are going to stay in the kiddie pool.
I have an A.A. degree in General Education (1994) and a A.S. in Computer Programming (2007). You can only have one A.A. degree but multiple A.S. degrees from the community college system. As for my A.S. degree, I made the president's list for maintaining a 4.0 GPA while working 40 hours a week as a technician and taking classes part-time for five years.
Been there, done that. I was out of work for two years (2009-2010) and filed for Chapter Seven bankruptcy in 2011.
You showed that you have no clue about programming, computer and network security or how computers actually work and you rip on someone else that is more intelligent and educated than you?
When I worked at Google in 2008, I had to demonstrate to a software engineer how to turn on his computer because his intelligence and education never prepared him for the real world. Most software engineers are really clueless when it comes to working with hardware.
You should go get another AA to boost your cred.
I'm working on the CompTIA Security+ certification for my government job as a security support specialist. After that I'll get my ITIL Foundation certification since I'm working for an ITIL organization. The next step after that is the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) and the CCNA Security certifications. Just because I have two associate degrees doesn't mean that my education is over.