Weekend Open Forum: Do you like your job?

This is a very good advice Many people got their jobs that they love this way (heard few Bios from Blizzard and other big gaming corps, they did the same thing).

US Air Force and I love my job. There is plenty of room for growth, Im getting my degree while I earn a paycheck and gain hands on experience every day. I'm in the Water and Fuels Systems career field and our Community College Air Force degree that we're made to get is in Mechanical and Electrical Applied Sciences. We're required to maintain physical fitness so naturally I feel great, and I've learned that with persistence and hard dedicated effort anything can be achieved. My life has been turned around.

Anyone have tips for making a resume for a soon to graduate Computer Science major? What should you put if you have absolutely no experience? Programming languages you're familiar with? Certain specialized classes you've taken? I need all the help I can get lol

Man, I feel your pain, I remember my college boasted about job placement after school. HA, its only true if you stay in the area the professors have connections... not if you go home. So my challenge was the same, I actually drove around Buffalo and stopped at businesses looking to apply like I was trying to get a job at a fast food joint, it was pathetic, I stopped at one place and the guy said, "why don't you just start your own business?" So I did that, After getting a couple clients and some good references, I have never had a hard time getting a job since... in fact one time I was offered a job, I accepted it, then changed my mind and turned it down, Then a month later I changed my mind again and they offered me the job again. I still work there.

Major: Network Administration

If getting a BS tought me anything, it wasn't even technology related. it was "Do it right, do it well, Don't cut corners" The competition weeds itself out if you follow that rule.

Resume advice: Your resume is you ticket, I'm sure everyone says that but you just have to remember to make it clean, well organized and straight to the point. Your attention to detail is what stands out. Make things line up, minimize whitespace and for the love of god, don't misspell ANYTHING.

I have interviewed a lot of people, and you wouldn’t believe how many ugly, sloppy resumes came across my desk. A poorly written resume tells me, "This guy can't write a one page document about himself, how will he organize himself and communicate information on projects that take 12 months to complete?"

Regardless of how easy it is to email a resume in PDF form... Snail mail it. Someone physically touches it that way. Use the fancy heavy paper; make an awesome cover letter that is only one page. Focus on how you understand business not how well you would sit in a cubicle and crank away at a program all day. At school you worked on many project in parallel, you worked as a team to complete pieces/parts. Again, your attention to detail in the words you choose to describe yourself will make you stand out... Like instead of saying I was the project manager on blah, blah, blah project... you could say something like.

"As the scope of the IT services are often more demanding than one person can handle alone, I have found myself able to appropriately delegate tasks, train technical team members and end users, along with provide direction to my team related to changing needs of the project and best practices. I take pride in the results of my efforts, this enables me to continually improve my strategy and grow my knowledge base as I progress down my career path."

That sounds a little better than "I was the project manager for a class project."

Oh yeah, If the job posting says, include a salary, do it that’s called a requirement, they want a number, give them one.

Good luck
Jeff W.

Couch potato? Loving it!

On a serious note, I'm not 'fully' employed at the moment, but i did enjoy my last full job very much.

Writing my USMLE Step 1 in 3 weeks, that will be fun. Lets hope I do well enough to pay off my 200k+ med school debt b4 I turn 50.

I love my Job, 3D Modeler Texture Artist, Animator for the Movie Industry, I Have no Bosses, I hate it when I have no one to scream at, but me.

Shouting maches against myself are usually pretty funny...

I'm a teacher in Brazil. During college, I taught English at language schools to make ends meet. When I finally got my bachelor degree in Japanese Language and Literature, I started teaching not only Japanese, but also Portuguese to foreign people, especially to Japanese. In a overall manner, I like my job. But the feeling of teaching such different languages is mixed. Japanese is hard as hell, and the students have a really hard time trying to grasp something that, for the western mind, is considered a very ambiguous language. English, on the other side, is easier than my own native language and I have a lot of fun with the higher advanced students. Finally, teaching Portuguese to foreigners is the real challenge. Having to perceive your own mother togue as something artificial and so displaced from your core is no easy task and, definitely, sets a point of no return in your mind.

I'm a 20-year military retiree. 6 years Navy as enlisted, 14 Army as an officer. Now I'm a Program Manager for a large government agency in Seattle. Have an office with a terrific view overlooking the entire Seattle waterfront - Space Needle, ferries, Mt. Rainier. I have the freedom to manage my projects in the way I feel should be done and all the resources I desire. Have a great boss that is supportive yet stays out of my way. In a nutshell, it's a great job and I'm grateful to have it.

Retired Army and now electrician. Make enough to have my own house, paid off truck, really nice self built desktop PC that I upgrade every year as a hobby and Asus gaming laptop. 2 Big LED tvs and a nice smartphone. Cant complain other than who is in the White House currently. Need a change in November!

I worked at NBC for 25 years before my division was moved to the boonies in Atlanta and I was laid off. I do miss rolling commercial breaks during the Superbowl, Saturday Night Live and NBC Today. I was able to dub 500 commercials on a shift without issue.
I now sell sunglasses at sunglass Hut and although I make a fraction of my NBC salary, I must say that I enjoy what I do very much. I took one of their worst performing stores and completely turned it around and saved it from closure. Lesson here, good work ethic will translate to any given field if you believe in yourself. Sometimes we have to reinvent ourselves when life gives you a new set of cards. Failure will not overtake you if your determination to succeed is strong enough. Ok back to D3 beta )).

I'm at FSU studying Accounting and Finance. I'm about to be admitted to the Business School even though I'm a freshman by year. After that I plan on going to Law School like my dad and his dad, etc. I feel that I have a great shot and I definitely have what it takes. I love every second at FSU and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

I'm 25 (yes, twenty five), started my own industrial electronics design/installation/repair shop 3 years ago; been doing good and hope to get my own line of products to sell, I've designed a few electronic motor driver boards but I need to get a full line with temperature controls and internet capable HMI (human mahcine interfaces).

i hate my job.
i want to be one of the following:
a blind swordsman,
a talent recruiter for porn companies,
a mexican drug lord (but i'm not mexican),
or a super hero.
in short,
i need a genie and a magic carpet.

My job is a f***ing joke, but work is work.

worst job in the world walmart

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