In two years there will be a spike in demand for 50 year old IT workers with a certificate and no relevant work experience.
Not 2019, but 2030. Baby boomers will be retired, retirees will outnumber workers (tax base), and two-thirds of the federal budget will go to Social Security/Medicare. Taxes will have to go way up. The IT industry will have a 1.5M+ shortage of skilled workers.
After you built the equivalent of a school computer lab [...]
The hardware compatibility lab saved the company $30K per year in what they were paying for an outside service.
[...] wired the world's greatest LAN but nobody wanted to come to your LAN party.
When we were testing UT2003 and UT2004, I always selected a female character since everyone else — including the female testers — selected male characters. Being the only female character in deathmatch made it easier for everyone to flush me out of hiding when I gain too many headshots with the sniper rifle. My coworkers were frustrated to find out that I could run with the sniper rifle just as well.
You might even be allowed to carry less insurance if you use an automated trencher that checks with the utilities automatically before it starts any trench, and which does that kind of sensing to back it up since the maps are commonly wrong anyway.
You're supposed to call 811 in Northern California two days before you start digging to have the utility locate the lines for you. Of course, that's for the known stuff. My father and I were doing a construction job in Chinatown (San Francisco) in 1989 when the backhoe operator broke into a ceramic sewer pipe. Took a few days to figure out the status of that the sewer pipe. Contractor cut out ten feet of sewer pipe and pumped the opening with concrete in to seal it off.
When I worked at a video game company, I got tasked with building out the hardware compatibility lab: setting up three benches, building 30 workstations and a server, and running cables. Since the QA department and IT department hated each other (IT had a Diablo server they wouldn't allow the testers on), I became the liaison between the two departments for the 10BASE2 to Ethernet conversion and upgraded the NICs for 60+ computers. When I became a lead tester, I got my certifications and went back to school to learn computer programming. My first IT contract was a Token Ring to Ethernet conversion project.
A car that drive itself on the freeway will make it easier for johns and hookers to conduct business in private. Police will be pulling over self-driving cars with steamed up windows to make arrests. Think of the children!
Haven't you heard?! Tesla will control the automotive industry by 2020!
At $300+ per share and no P/E, I'll pass. This is one of those stocks that you buy a share of to impress your friends and family. That only works if they know next to nothing about stocks. I had a roommate who was so proud that he owned a share of Oracle prior to the dot com bust, and he got mad when I pointed out a half-dozen dividend-paying stocks that were a better investment. IIRC, he only made $11 in profit after selling it off.
The majority of the corporations listed on the stock exchanges are incorporated in corporate-friendly Delaware. Businesses not destined for the stock exchanges are often incorporated in Nevada or Wyoming, as those states makes it difficult for plaintiffs to collect assets in a lawsuit judgement.
Working for a slow-moving government agency as a helpdesk jockey does not provide sufficient evidence of ambition.
InfoSec is a very fast-moving part of the government these days. I do security remediation. I create tickets for the local desktop techs. I have 80K+ workstations, not 80K+ users.
Which certification, exactly? When will you get it?
Security+ and ITIL this year. The CCNA Security track next year.
Come on buddy - SMART goals: Specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound.
I'm not in the habit of sharing everything with Slashdot. I reveal one component of my diet, everyone calls shit. I reveal one component of my workout routine, everyone calls shit. I laugh at how much you don't know about me — and what you think you know about me.
I'll also point out that you've claimed that the IT thing is just "how you pay the bills" until your "content creation" gig starts pouring money into your bank account... but now, we're also to believe that you're actively committed to your tech career? Which is it?
Both. If you want long-term wealth, you need a job that pays the bills and a side business that generates cash flow. You know I make $50K+ per year from my bill-paying job (which everyone calls shit), but I haven't mentioned how much cash my side business generates. As for the "free" money I get from posting on Slashdot, it's just a drop in the bucket.
A competent engineer would not stand there, passively waiting to be buried in a pile of shit, and claim that that passivity is somehow "miracle work."
That's the nature of the job. My job is one of a thousand "shovel ready" jobs that came about because "engineers" failed to take security into consideration. Because of my fellow virtual ditch diggers, security compliance went from 70% to 95%.
But if you stopped posing as the butt of every joke, you'd be a lot happier.
Who said I was unhappy? The reason I come to Slashdot is to have fun — at your expense, of course.
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If the stock price itself is hammered, and then the company slashes the dividend, in what way is that an investment?
Depends on the fundamentals. Why does a stock get hammered? Why does the dividend get slashed? What's the short-term and long-term prospects?
Wall Street has a short-term mentality. I'm playing the long game.
In two years there will be a spike in demand for 50 year old IT workers with a certificate and no relevant work experience.
Not 2019, but 2030. Baby boomers will be retired, retirees will outnumber workers (tax base), and two-thirds of the federal budget will go to Social Security/Medicare. Taxes will have to go way up. The IT industry will have a 1.5M+ shortage of skilled workers.
Just ignore him, and move on, because nothing will piss him off more.
I don't take this personally. At the end of the day, Slashdot is like Twitter with so many random comments.
After you built the equivalent of a school computer lab [...]
The hardware compatibility lab saved the company $30K per year in what they were paying for an outside service.
[...] wired the world's greatest LAN but nobody wanted to come to your LAN party.
When we were testing UT2003 and UT2004, I always selected a female character since everyone else — including the female testers — selected male characters. Being the only female character in deathmatch made it easier for everyone to flush me out of hiding when I gain too many headshots with the sniper rifle. My coworkers were frustrated to find out that I could run with the sniper rifle just as well.
slashdotters are going to take advice from special-ed, starting.... NOW
Start with "The Richest Man in Babylon" by George S. Clason.
Better yet! If they existed they might bug me.
I get 20+ emails and phone calls per day even though I'm not doing an active job search. An active job search would triple that volume.
This really begs the question, why does the executive cost $800 an hour, besides the obvious cronyism that occurs in boardrooms?
Have you seen the prices on yachts these days? It's difficult to keep up with the all the other CEOs at the yacht club.
You might even be allowed to carry less insurance if you use an automated trencher that checks with the utilities automatically before it starts any trench, and which does that kind of sensing to back it up since the maps are commonly wrong anyway.
You're supposed to call 811 in Northern California two days before you start digging to have the utility locate the lines for you. Of course, that's for the known stuff. My father and I were doing a construction job in Chinatown (San Francisco) in 1989 when the backhoe operator broke into a ceramic sewer pipe. Took a few days to figure out the status of that the sewer pipe. Contractor cut out ten feet of sewer pipe and pumped the opening with concrete in to seal it off.
When I worked at a video game company, I got tasked with building out the hardware compatibility lab: setting up three benches, building 30 workstations and a server, and running cables. Since the QA department and IT department hated each other (IT had a Diablo server they wouldn't allow the testers on), I became the liaison between the two departments for the 10BASE2 to Ethernet conversion and upgraded the NICs for 60+ computers. When I became a lead tester, I got my certifications and went back to school to learn computer programming. My first IT contract was a Token Ring to Ethernet conversion project.
Tech savvy means that they can turn on their own PC without having to call the help desk.
How did that cock orgy from last week turn out?
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I wonder where virtual ditch diggers fit in with all this?
A car that drive itself on the freeway will make it easier for johns and hookers to conduct business in private. Police will be pulling over self-driving cars with steamed up windows to make arrests. Think of the children!
Thanks for your valuable comment.
America can't be great again without anchovies!
I got LinkedIn for that. Those 800+ connections are less likely to spam me with baby pics.
Haven't you heard?! Tesla will control the automotive industry by 2020!
At $300+ per share and no P/E, I'll pass. This is one of those stocks that you buy a share of to impress your friends and family. That only works if they know next to nothing about stocks. I had a roommate who was so proud that he owned a share of Oracle prior to the dot com bust, and he got mad when I pointed out a half-dozen dividend-paying stocks that were a better investment. IIRC, he only made $11 in profit after selling it off.
The dividend will be slashed soon.
Slashing the dividend will probably decrease the share price even further. If so, I'll probably buy more shares out of pocket.
I don't mind the 35% decline in share prices, as the dividends can buy more shares at a lower price.
Why would it be Delaware?
The majority of the corporations listed on the stock exchanges are incorporated in corporate-friendly Delaware. Businesses not destined for the stock exchanges are often incorporated in Nevada or Wyoming, as those states makes it difficult for plaintiffs to collect assets in a lawsuit judgement.
And Wyoming.
Working for a slow-moving government agency as a helpdesk jockey does not provide sufficient evidence of ambition.
InfoSec is a very fast-moving part of the government these days. I do security remediation. I create tickets for the local desktop techs. I have 80K+ workstations, not 80K+ users.
Which certification, exactly? When will you get it?
Security+ and ITIL this year. The CCNA Security track next year.
Come on buddy - SMART goals: Specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound.
I'm not in the habit of sharing everything with Slashdot. I reveal one component of my diet, everyone calls shit. I reveal one component of my workout routine, everyone calls shit. I laugh at how much you don't know about me — and what you think you know about me.
I'll also point out that you've claimed that the IT thing is just "how you pay the bills" until your "content creation" gig starts pouring money into your bank account... but now, we're also to believe that you're actively committed to your tech career? Which is it?
Both. If you want long-term wealth, you need a job that pays the bills and a side business that generates cash flow. You know I make $50K+ per year from my bill-paying job (which everyone calls shit), but I haven't mentioned how much cash my side business generates. As for the "free" money I get from posting on Slashdot, it's just a drop in the bucket.
A competent engineer would not stand there, passively waiting to be buried in a pile of shit, and claim that that passivity is somehow "miracle work."
That's the nature of the job. My job is one of a thousand "shovel ready" jobs that came about because "engineers" failed to take security into consideration. Because of my fellow virtual ditch diggers, security compliance went from 70% to 95%.
But if you stopped posing as the butt of every joke, you'd be a lot happier.
Who said I was unhappy? The reason I come to Slashdot is to have fun — at your expense, of course.
Russians stealing from Russians. Putin will have to put his foot down immediately before this becomes a Saturday Night Live sketch.
Must have been with anchovies!
I haven't seen anchovies on a pizza in 30+ years.
You're comparing an old cellphone to a smartphone? You're a fucking moron.
You asshats have no sense of humor whatsoever.
If I had to guess, you've gone a long stretch being unemployed because of how dumb you are.
If I had to guess, you're still living in your mother's basement.