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Hey all, this kind of started in the "where do u post from thread" as me an Arris had posted..... but curious as to how u got where u are now?

preferable just use point form


moi:

• drop out in grade 10
  
• work in resturants a few years
  
• get a job at a telecommuncations company
  
• get hired full time after doing night work data entry for about 2 months
  
• become extensivly self taugh in computers / software
  
• get laid off from teleco company (they went under)
  
• become unemployeed for 4 months
  
• goto www.monster.ca everyday and submit your resume to places
  
• One day submit resume to a job entitled "tech support specialist - (in caribbean)
  
• 2 days later get phone call - go for interview - hired on spot -
  
• 7 days later get moved to Antigua (caribbean)
  
• Work for company for about 1 year and 10 months, company moves to Costa Rica - U get taken along - dec 2002 (being the senior most tech who been there the longest)
  
• Company pays for most all expsenses - house /car/ phones - most everything beside personal things (clothes, food, party)
  

I'll just put my entry here too

• Go to university and get a Comp. Sci Degree
• want to take a few months off after uni
• get offered a job two weeks after leaving uni
• Learn how crap Lotus Notes is and how often Lotus lie about how their program should work
• Start working in Milan occasionally, doing software analysis and support (1 or 2 week trips every few months)
• Year later have frequent trips to milan
• Get promised Oracle and Lotus Notes certification
• Try to seem surprised that the company forget about the certification
• Now working 3 weeks in Milan, 1 in Scotland at home
• Company pays for most all expsenses - house /food/TV/Hi Fi/DVD/Italian language course (in the works)

-Did crappy degree in something I was not interested in because I was smoking too much dope when I picked my subjects.

-Resurgence of interest in computing during 2nd year.

-Become obsessed with computing, loose all interest in anything else. Loose weight and sleep hardly at all, but in 1 year catch up with everything I would have learned had I not abandoned computing.

-After graduation, convince university that I can do a system engineers job even although I have no experience and no qualifications in computing.

-Do as much training, and read as many books and websites as I can.

-Currently studying diploma in computer network administration.

-Looking to work next in even larger network, distributed computing, etc....

-Working on building a new Death Star

- studied some years in Russia when i was born
- started to learn Turbo Pascal 4 (lol)
- studied seven years in France
- got a Inet (36.6) access and got very crappy bachelor results (because of the Inet access, of course ... was spending 7 hours / day on Inet ...)
- studied three years in Belgium
- got DSL access, bought MY OWN first machine, screwed it up many times, bought another machine
- Coded some cool stuff people seem to enjoy, launched IstraSoft Online website with all my crap on it, already 12000 unique visitors (www.istrasoft.net)
- finishing studying in a very huge european bank (in IT services)
- hoping being hired by that bank next year
- having much time left for other interesting stuff (I'm only 22) unless a bus/train/car/disease decides I must quit :/

I would also like to notice that things are a little bit different here in Europe, young people study more before getting hired and there are't too much young & rich people (besides those who have rich parents).

lol, that is one way to put it!

"unless our mighty God decides I must pass away ..."

Is it better like that ?

- Born ruler of the universe
- Learned a bit about computers
- Continues to be the king of the cosmos

You forgot born modest and weird

No wonder you are the way you are.. Arris.

LMAO.. So true.
I didn't know that I was considered a professional smart *** though

* Sleep when I'm tired
* Eat when I'm hungry
* Kiss when I'm lonely
* Play all the time
* Enjoy my life!!

That's really my plan!

Though finishing my degree, landing a solid job, and getting married are just a few of the needed things along the way.

nah, liked the other way better, sound better for us non beleivers

.. You evil pagan satan heathen devil!

Just kidding of course. The bus sounds infinitely more realistic than a mighty man with a beard on a cloud with a major disposition.

-1993, parents bought me a 386sx, 40mhz, 1 meg/ram PC with
DOS 5.0
-1995-1998, hours and hours of Doom I/II multiplayer against people in the local area.
-1995, ran a local B.B.S. on WWIV bulletin board called "The Gamma Quadrant" on a 2400bps modem.
-1994-1997, spent hours at a time for years browsing local dial-in B.B.S.'s., was a Co-SysOp for two different ones at different times.
-2000, dropped out of High School and went straight to a community college, got my diploma in 2 weeks.
-March 9th 2000, joined the Marines
-March 27th 2000, realized I hated the Marines and finally convinced them to let me the hell out of.. um.. well.. Hell.
-October 2000, moved to Tampa Bay Florida and attended the International Academy of Design for computer animation.
-July 2000 dropped out of the academy after deciding my drawing skills were not up to par (even though I was first in my class in 3D animation and Linux).
-July 2000 moved back home.
-July 2000 through October 2002 moved between crappy jobs and submitted hundreds of resumes.
-October 2002, got a job at a local Internet provider due to my list of various skills/experience(where I am now) doing basically everything -- system admin, web design, graphic design, accounting, marketing, pc repair, networking (local area networks, Internet Information Server, etc.), and basically everything you can think of.

Plan to:
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Take MCSE tests and get certified (have taken A+/Net+ tests and was told to skip straight to MCSE because of my technical knowledge).

Become a rock star (hey, I can dream damn you!).

Skills/Experience:
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3D Studio Max, Flash, HTML, Web design, programming (C++,Turbo Pascal,etc), Photoshop, AfterFX, Director, DOS 5 and up, Win 3.1/95/98/ME/2000/XP, PC repair/building, Red Hat and Mandrake Linux, networking, etc etc etc (too much crap to remember at 2am)