Jobs of /g/

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>>51390716
I'll bite.

I work as a Help Desk Engineer/Network Engineer (bullshit title)
With bonuses, nearly 50,000 in NYC after working here for 2 years.
Bachelor's degree, no certs as of yet except for MS Office one.
No not really. It's partially the work and the company.

security

75,000 first year out of college

>>51391006
Wow sounds great do you enjoy your job

>>51390977
>bite
Sorry I wanted to discuss something that wasn't the usually shit that /g/ often offers.


Does Computer Science with security and forensics at a Russel group uni + a year in industry seem like a good choice. I know obviously it depends on the job I desire but would this be a good start to opening doors?

>>51391072
yeah i have a lot of fun

>>51390716
Back end sys engineer. 57k min. Per year. BS-IT

>>51391140
Not calling it bait, I'm saying that I'll participate.

To answer your question, security is a great field, but can be difficult bar to hurdle initially (certs, etc.)

Nope but I'd really like to be in the industry. I really should go to college or something.

>>51391213
So what the fuck do you do all day?

"Software application engineer"

105k

No degree, used connections

Not the most interesting, looking to switch in ~2 years

>>51391006
what did u study fäm

>>51390716
Mostly web development, thought i did build a really fucking neat rfid door system for a last job, went from never using an IC to creating a badass rfid door management system with relays maglocks and shift registers.

I currently make about 45k/year
startups can be fun, some have paid grossly high amounts and some pretty much forced me to stay awake 4 days straight on adderal pushing code to meet deadlines because lol only developer, and get paid only for half that time.

>What did you have to do to get the job e.g. degrees, certification e.t.c
Self taught, just a really nice portfolio, and the motivation to always learn more.
Dropped out of college after the 2nd year.

>where did you learn this shit
I shit you not, i wanted to be a hacker kid.
Joined hackforms, learned C# made a neat POC botnet to take commands from facebook posts (i was good friends with the guy who made the twitter botnet that symatics sperged about years ago).

Eventually made a really badass botnet POC using C++ and php (my shit was always detected, so i never sold shit, but it was an amazing learning experience)

Fell the fuck in love with PHP, developed some pretty crazy things at the age of 15, like a script to rip down CPAlead surveys, and transform them into a JSON script that i could embed into my sites, talk about fuckin conversion rates, no survey site at the time operated as smoothly as mine, this is now a built in feature of CPAlead.

I've worked for many great startups in florida including grooveshark.

I probably would not have my career if i never found hackforums.

>Also are you happy with this job?
As long as i'm working for someone who has an interesting product, and not drone client work, i'm always happy.

I'm also hoping to launch a few products of my own to see if i can not work for anyone again, i've learned a lot working with various startup business owners, more than school ever could have done.

you're welcome for the blog post

>>51391340
i even at one point built an ad service for hackforums

a chunk of random bots/patchers loaded ads off basically a super shit version of google adwords that i built myself

also made a few grand during the creation of bizspark/dreamspark

between that and my CPA income

i was running game for a 15 year old

i had $500 to invest in bitcoin when it was $0.05
but instead bought a bunch of video games

the only thing i regret is spending all that money on video games and not investments in the future

fucking 15 year old mentality

backend developer
45,000
finishing a 2 year associate's degree\
very happy

Go to meetup.com and look for local tech meetups, there are always people attending who announce job openings. going to these meetups gives you excellent networking opportunities, and because you go to the meetups it shows you are active in the community. I got my job because I went to a laravel meetup, got invited to a slack group with local devs, asked if anyone had a job/internship in the chatroom. Dev tells me to come on in and well talk. 3 weeks later get internship for 15 dollars/hr after internship get hired.

There's hope anons. those meetups are honestly the key to a job/internship, I don't even have an associates degree yet.

>>51391231
Derp around house, dabble in electronics, read up shit, play with Linux/BSD, etc. Watch yootoobes, play plebe games.

Watch lewd animu.

Nothing yet but studying for RHEL and CCNA, probably will want to work as a system/network admin

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>>51390716
I too would like to know the path to almighty tech job
I currently have a CS degree now on second degree with specializations in artificial intelligence and "data science" lol

>>51391528
How do you pay for necessities?

malware analyst
60k yuros
bsc in computer science from a shit-tier university in a third world country
it's pretty comfy

>>51391736
How'd you land that job?

Any interesting stories?

Senior help desk, but I have to do bunch of shit that I don't get paid for. outlived 4 bosses already

i make 7734$ a year

kill me

>>51391807
>outlived 4 bosses
how the fuck are you not a boss yet and making that money

>>51391807
lolwut

>>51391834
Because 20 and no degree or studying in uni.

>>51391807
Basic math means that you make 4.02 per hour. Which means you probably live in a shitskin country

Idk if this counts as tech but I upgrade computers for this warehouse that refurbishes them. All I do is switch out RAM and change boot orders all day.

20k

No certs, but working on my CompTIA A+

I'm happy at the job but its sucks that I'm making such shitty pay. It's also a temp position. Hoping to use experience here to move up somehow pls help.

>>51391807
>i make 7734$ a year
DESIGNATED

Devops Software Engineer, 1.5yrs exp
Honours Computing Degree

I just automate cloud deployment stuff all day, and make tools for sysadmins that can't code.
When I want a break from coding I do sysadmin stuff. We don't actually touch hardware, so I don't mean setting up printers or cables, I mean setting up DNS servers etc.

Work is challenging and interesting, different shit everyday, pay its decent for new ish grad in Ireland. Seriously considering London or Silicon valley, the later would be more painful but more profitable due to HB1 visa.

Ireland guy here, forgot to mention, 44k euro.

>>51392245
What does "devops" mean btw? Whenever I google it I just find meaningless buzzwords.

In house web developer/online marketer for a law firm. ~50k plus the occasional bonus. Also make an extra ~1.5k in commission from online sales from a performance based web/marketing project per month.

>>51392002

neither do i bro neither do i
the fuck does that matter

>>51391340 here

i ran a free-minecraft website that i made $500 a month from for 2 years
when i was 15

MOTIVATE YOURSELF

TAKE YOUR BOSSES JOB

I BELIEVE IN YOU

>>51392102
Russia is deffinatly shitskin.
Feel like fucking cuba compared to europe

>>51392365
How did you make money off of a free website like that? Was it all advertising?

>>51392430
CPAlead is a company had hosts serveys

CPA is a popular form on online minitization
Cost
Per
Action

>user wants free minecraft
>they need 1500 points
>suervey worth one point per penny i get
>they fill out only so many and get bored
>points get wipped when account goes dormant/they obviously gave up
>money in my pocket

oh fuck my CPA login is still valid
check out my pic, shits worth money
conversion rate is how many completed the survey compared to ones that viewed it

most surveys worth more than a dollar
and yes you can fill out your own surveys

give people a reason to want to fill out that survey
>points for prizes
>hide a file download
you get the idea

also get a referral and get 20% of whatever they make (and they lose nothing)
a quarter of my CPA income was from referrals

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>>51392576
forgot pic

>>51390716
I work in tech retail at Staples, it pays about $11.50 /hr part time. Basically just to make some income to spend on whatever I want while I am in school.

>>51392576
NEVER fuck over your userbase
a slow payout is better than no payout to your user


if any of you ever visited free-minecraft.net before the game was "released", no you were not scammed.

i paid out about 20 accounts..... out of 100K email confirmed accounts

95% of most accounts never obtained more than 100 points.

>>51390716
System administrator / network administrator for huge logistics company in europe with 5 other sysadmins.
Finished lowest school degree, after that all got CCNA,CISSP,RHCSA,LPIC-1 / 3.
Earnings around 85k a year

>>51392576
>>51392430
>>51392365
Hasn't the gravy train sorta passed on the whole CPA sites thing?

>>51392286
I've heard it declared many things, but I'd describe as using developer practice's to solve infrastructure level problems.

>>51392886
My last year of cpa i bought my AK, and that was two days before sandy hook.

I would have no idea, but i've heard conversions are up and surveys are a lot better, along with surveys in a lot more countries.

Do the whole json api thing and make the survyes not look so "standard" and you could probably make some decent cash.

I would assume the "points 4 rewards" niche would still work granted you could build a clean site, and picked the good surveys.

surveys for porn/downloads are probably seriously washed up, might get some pretty awesome convcersions since the trend has died down and they'res new fools on the internet.

>>51393051
>My last year of cpa i bought my AK, and that was two days before sandy hook
Talk about luck

>>51393051
This is really interesting.
Do you mind sharing some tips/resources on getting started on something like this?

I have a decent amount of web dev experience and this would make for an awesome project.

>>51393109
it was $420 before taxes i shit you not

now $400 gets you a rifle that looks like it was jimbos first time with a metal press

>>51393209
Search around and try to find a niche that isnt too flooded.

If you launch a points 4 prize site, i would recommend an initial bonus or something, to make people want to do surveys.

Stick to small prizes, and always have some giftcards up for grabs, (its against most TOS to offer direct cash/paypal prizes)

a REALLY big niche when i was doing it was movie sites, you set up a blog and post links to streamed pirated videos, my friend made a couple hundred literally off just hosting a leaked trailer for a movie, but im going to assume its died down.

The key is not to force the surveys down their face, make them feel like its their choice.

Oh raffle sites make a decent profit and tends to have good returns, simply because you're only asking for a survey or two to be entered in the drawing.
If you're only requiring one survey for a drawing, eventually you get $500 to hand out a $25 giftcard (i'd suggest also putting an entry cap so odds are known)

also if you're good at web dev, you could learn the system and sell fucking scripts/sites.

>complete turnkey CPA raffle site: $100 per download
its not as innane as it sounds, people will pay that, just don't re-make a product that exists, and always support.

I was also making side cash bug fixing someone elses survey framework because they left they scene, and others needed updates to work with a new facebook update.

>>51393414
also fuckers love to brag

i made a script to auto generate images (yes PHP generated images work on most forums as a signature why wouldnt it)

but it was neat because it was like

[my name is ** and i've earned $5 so far today on ***.com]

and that was all an image not text, so people link that shit on any website or forum.

>>51393414
Thanks man.
Saved.

Where do get the surveys from? Only CPALead?

hey faggots, what's best to have fun and money at the same time, distributed algorithms and shit or security?

>>51393522
Any cpa publisher

Cpalead just happens to have been in town the longest, was the only one poated on hackforms back when I wanted to be a skiddie that no one had a scam claim against

No idea what exists now
And I abandoned hackforums years ago so I wouldnt ask there
The memes are not a lie
But they USED to be good

>desktop ricer
>$0/yr
>drop out out school and become a NEET
>sorta

>>51391677
>not knowing that most of /g/ is NEET
>posting with a name, not a trip
how new are you?

>College student for Process Technology
>Burger Bin employee 9$/hr
>As a Process Technician ill be making over 100k/yr
Waiting outside a job recruiting office right now, i passed the plant tests and there supposed to tell me what jobs i can qualify for right now. Might be another semester before i get any bites. Wish me luck ill report back. P.S. im just in it for the money

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>>51390716
I work for a small Computer shop, Fixing and building custom rigs all day.

Pic related, Bored at work sometimes.

>>51391340
desu, i have never looked past the popular tech forums. are there anyone good ones around?

>>51394274
acroynm for (to be honest) changes to desu? wtf

Work retial, selling phones, tablets
Get about 12k a year while at school
It's pretty good, I like talking to people

>>51390716
Where did it run to?

>What tech related job do you do?
Systems Engineer
>Around how much does it pay?
$70k and great benefits. I haven't payed for lunch or breakfast in weeks.
>What did you have to do to get the job e.g. degrees, certification e.t.c
I worked hard as fuck through a bunch of shit jobs until I got to sit at a desk all day and wait for something to break. I have no certs whatsoever, unless you count that gimmick cert I got from VMware that took me about 2 hours to do and I did it online.
>Also are you happy with this job?
I fucking love it. My last job was a very soulless one, with people just going in to get a paycheck and this forced sort of "corporate identity" marred by the fact that most people in the company didn't care about the product in the slightest. I work for a company now that aligns a lot more with what I care about (read: vidya) and the people here get me and I get them. Plus, a LOT less Indians.

an AS degree in CS is as useful as a women's studies degree here in NY

>>51394285
there are new filters on /g/

>>51394370
i have never encountered one before. what is the purpose of filtering out that acronym?

>>51390716
I am IT Support and Mobile Phones manager for a meat exporter

i get $630 per week

i got the job unqualified due to experiance and knowing people

im okay with this job, its going to shine on my resume when i apply for IT at a high school

>knowing people literally appoints you to a title

what the fuck is this bullshit

>>51394388
desu its an attempt to keep the generic meme response to a minimum senpai

>>51394416
i know right, ive tried to apply for so much shit without knowing anyone but i get prejudice because of my name,

they all think that i changed it or put a nickname on my resume

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>>51394388
because they are stupid i guesss
look at this:

desu

kek

senpai

>>51394442
i dont understand the problem with 'to be honest', since when has that been a problem?

>>51394302
I can't hold a conversation with normal people, specially about tech. All the years of Internet and 4chan have desensitized me and recently I'm starting to notice that I'm getting turned down for pleb tier jobs because of it.

>>51394457
its just the mods flexing their muscle to try to impress their new overlord

>>51394441
Yup I'm pretty sure I get discriminated based on my name and race all the time

>>51394458
its because you say things like "specially' instead of especially

>>51394483
whats your first name then man?

my first name is Blade,

my last name is also a noun tho

so are there any good forums I should check out? i have been interested in network security, system security, etc..., without blatantly saying "I WANNA BE A HACKER". no, i want to meet people and learn about security

>>51394457
joke word filters for halloween

they will get removed eventually when the next wave of meme words arrive

or never
who knows

>>51394442
.desu. .senpai. ░

>>51390716
professional shitposter
nothing
nothing
no

iknorite famalam

>>51394487
It's not like speech bubbles pop up over our heads when I speak.

Frontend web dev for hybrid mobile apps
€550x14 per year
Almost finished shitty Informatics Engineering degree, did an intership and they kept me afterwards.

>>51394604
but the fact that you typed "specially" means that you said it inside your head that way

dont kid man,

you legit use that word

>>51394508
Minority name from a third world country.

college degree IT related
working at IBM
make 8k $ a year
JUST

>>51394642
Ok, but I got a pretty good excuse.
English isn't my native language

>>51394530
Screw meeting people. You'll meet people when they find out you're not a skiddie.

overthewire.org

Start with Bandit, work your way up.

>>51394691
i will go check out

>>51394662
U meant 80K

>>51391276
What resources did you use to acquire your knowledge?

>>51394701
nope
;_;
they said the money is in mainframes
yeah right...

>>51390716
>What tech related job do you do?
programming websites and things with geo data, mostly doing testing and finding bugs
>Around how much does it pay?
student assistant, 10€/hour
>What did you have to do to get the job e.g. degrees, certification e.t.c
knew a few people who worked there
>Also are you happy with this job?
huge company which uses and sells very expensive software which is a pain to use, but I'm getting better with it because I know how to computer. aside from pay it's really good for what it is, not much innovation going on, but a quite secure sector with outlook for a permanent position sometime in the future

Working as a Electronicall Engineer.
Earn about 36000€ a year.
First year after my bachelor

>>51394974
in Aus Electrical engineers get payed more than that,

i did the echange rate on your Euros and you are getting payed fuck all

>>51395005
Isn't everything ridiculously expensive in Australia?

I install Lenovo computers for a company that's contracted by IBM.

>>51395005

Europe is being flooded by cheap engineering labor though. Most of the firms survive on project to project basis anyways. So not sure if it`s worth the investment anymore.

>>51395187
depends, i wouldnt know any different

>What tech related job do you do?
AI research at Baidu
>Around how much does it pay?
120K year
>What did you have to do to get the job e.g. degrees, certification e.t.c
Double PhD in maths and compsci
>Also are you happy with this job?
Yin ate all the Snickers again fucking bastard.

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>School IT Technician
>Fuck all pay
>Pretty much got it by being the only one to apply
>I guess?

Pay is a shit middle ground where I can survive on it but save none. Been looking at work elsewhere, but might try and move into security. Money to be made there.

I do sharepoint development for 20k pounds per year, first year out of uni at an engineering company. Thinking of applying at different companies for more money... I'm the only dev here and all the engineers get payed 4 times as much as me because they are cunts and think the are better than me. I probably sound like a betafag but oh well

>>51395005
lol no you don't... not first year out of uni

>>51394274
i honestly dont know
i left hackfroums years ago
and somehow ended up with you fucker for the last 6+ years

>>51395357
maybe cuz they are more experienced and have been there longer?

>>51395357
south east?

>>51395391
yeah. but I still feel I am slightly underpaid

>>51395391
the job is not that bad really I just had a bad day today

>>51395418
no

>>51394677
You know it's wrong, quit pretending that you don't know why people think you're incompetent if you can't even make the effort to speak right.

Not working yet, but I'm studying telecommunications.

I regret it.

>>51395545
in more detail what do you study

>What tech related job do you do?
Mid-level backend developer

>Around how much does it pay?
$72k

>What did you have to do to get the job e.g. degrees, certification e.t.c
Had to prove experience by working up through smaller jobs

>Also are you happy with this job?
I'm really getting sick of it

>>51395565
Literally everything involving communication using technology.

So yes, I get to do a lot of cabling, problem is it seems I was tricked and signed up for a maths class instead. The reason I'm studying this in the first place is because I wasn't good enough for high school.

I'll also start studying radios sometime, don't know when.

>>51390716
Probably not what you were looking for but I'll answer for the hell of it. I'm in college as an engineering student with a CS minor
>What tech related job do you do?
Level 1 Tech, basically tech support at the school's helpdesk
>Around how much does it pay?
$10 an hour.
>What did you have to do to get the job e.g. degrees, certification e.t.c
Did a program at the tech department, they pretty much offered me the job the following year
>Also are you happy with this job?
Yeah. It's right on campus, closer than my classes even. It's 10 hours a week and most of the time I'm not even at the desk, I work on stuff in the back (virus removal, backups, bootcamps, etc) and do homework. Easy and a good cash flow for a student

How do I get a basic tech job

I don't even care how much it pays

Can't say. For every system "Accessed" there is large amounts of currency to be obtained.

>>51395598
isn't it all a bit obsolete ?

>>51394662
Sounds like IBM alright.
>>51395224
~27k a year salary, 90% coverage for dental and health (canada), it's... Okay. I want more money. They will pay for my certs, i don't have any right now, got the job by being literate and competent as well as knowing someone.

£445 p/d | $680 p/d

Sybase DBA

No degree, dropped out of scool at 15. Did low level C and ASM for a few years in my teens, BBC micro/Acorn electron. Got job as sysadmin, fell into DBA job after pr0 dba left. 10 years later, expert in my field.

>>51390716
analyst / devops
around 2k € per month (after tax)
I'm self-taught. Got where I am by working my ass off and networking
very happy with my job

>>51395680
Part of it is, but since a lot of places are getting security cameras and alarm systems, I don't think this field will ever die.

Shit, any sort of technology related cabling job fits in that field.

I mostly signed up just for the sake of having a diploma, and general interest in technology, but I can't believe the maths they make us do, it's retarded.

>>51390716
Senior Support "Engineer"/Trainer (no degree for me).
Making £30k without bonuses in one of the cheapest cities of the UK so it's not bad.
I love the job, the company sometimes is kinda meh; I get to travel sometimes which is not bad either.
I have 3 of the 6 certification my company releases, looking to get some LPI or CompTIA in Linux or similar Unix certifications

I currently work for a non-proft just as a little office computer help guy in IT.
Got it using some connections I had through my mother.
Doesn't pay much, like $8/hour
It's a fun job, but pretty quiet. So the CPA hired me to also do all of his filing of taxes, and he pays me $8/hour to do that, so all around it's not a bad little gig for not even out of college yet.

Sysadmin, I've got some shitty degree and CCNAs.

9k euro/year after taxes.

>>51395713
want an apprentice or something?

.NET web developer, I suck at my job. Want to go into testing, hopefully will be less demanding and then maybe I'll go back to development. But probably not.

>>51395775
Sybase isn't hard to lear, all the investment banks still rely on it.

you can easily blag a sybase dba job with a little knowledge padowan.

>>51395713
Why did you drop out?

"senior sysadmin" aka top level support monkey with some access to internal systems
$65k plus benefits
I am rapidly falling out of love with my job, but I think part of that is the horrible city I'm living in. I've got telecommuting set up so I'm planning a move out to the pacific northwest come spring.

>>51390716
Work for Samsung in retail
14 an hour
I like it, it's fun. Great pay for a college student with no skills

>>51395722
how did you manage that.. any previous experience

>>51395828

Ulcerative Colitis.... ended up in hospital for 3 months. felt my life was ruined as i couldn't take my exams.

pr0 tip - it wasn't, exams/grades mean fuck all if you can show you can do the job.

>>51390716
>What tech related job do you do?
Datafucker, Healthcare Industry. Data arrives in a cornucopia of twisted, bastardized formats; I mix the shit up until it congeals into a clotted mess that our database can ingest.
>Around how much does it pay?
$60K
>What did you have to do to get the job e.g. degrees, certification e.t.c
Not be a complete idiot with SQL, also familiarity with .NET
>Also are you happy with this job?
Could be worse. I telecommute, spend about 15-20% of my day working, then the rest of the time writing or shitposting. Not a bad gig.

>>51394858
synergis?

>>51393618
swag
where do i signup

>>51395640
Find a call center.
Apply.
Try to get on any tech accounts they have

>>51392123

>A+
why? Get your network+ and security+

The A+ is garbage.

Op here
This got a ton more replies than I was expecting its actually nice to get an overview of what people do.

Any recommendations on certs or things to do e.g. some guy earlier in the thread said about an it professionals meet up. I'm trying to clear my head about things and hearing about those with experience is great

>>51393671
>What is a vocal minority

lab tech
$48k
bs biology + internship and cert exam
no

>>51396124
>find bridge
>approach end
>climb ledge
>shed tear
>jump
>???
>profit

>>51396104
>Call center
>2+ years of fast pace call center experience required.

Every fucking time.

>>51396124
meetup.org, search your city for IT/Programming meetups, see if you can be extroverted enough to mingle.

>>51396058
no but same field from what I can tell

College student
-$5,500 USD debt/year
Be mostly not stupid
No

>>51396277
This is what I expected from /g/ desu.

>>51395330
Money is to be made everywhere but seriously i hope you love security, because you'll be another one that does it for the money in the big world.

I.T tech in school
$26 per hour, 30 hours per week
around 40k per year

only a cert4 qualification in general networking, literally nothing from that course I use in my day to day.

Not sure where to go from here.

What should I do?

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>Entry Level IT/work at home
>Under 500€ each 3 months
>Highschool
>Nope

Still in Uni taking networking degree and cisco certs though.

Dev Ops Engineer
£45k
Computer Science degree from shit university
I wouldn't do anything else

>>51396297
Thank you anon for reminding me of that website, I read the post quickly before I went to work so I forgot

What are some /g/ related jobs that don't involve 90% of your work hours being stressed?

>>51396534
Desktop ricing n33t

>>51396534
>job
>only work 10% of time
this >>51396552

>>51396586
What are you on about, m8? I'm saying that 90% of your time spent working in the computer industry is stressful and high pressure.

>>51392286
It's a buzzword that is used to completely under pay someone who not only knows how to write code but understands the architecture and principles of networking.

>>51396603
>what are you on about
>m8
>britbong hours
kek u mad?

>>51390716
>What tech related job do you do?
Network Admin
>Around how much does it pay?
70k USD
>What did you have to do to get the job e.g. degrees, certification e.t.c
C.S. Degree, 2.5 years working in a NOC, CCNA R&S + Security
>Also are you happy with this job?
Mostly

In my experience there's a ton of open networking positions (Boston area). Most people are afraid to touch routers and firewalls, and most people that aren't afraid are incompetent.

>>51390716
sysadmin/some network engineer-y stuff
lower than I should settle for
CS degree, nothing else aside from a few years of experience working with bsds and networking
very, it's comfy as hell

>>51396534
sysadmin
the time you spend stressed is inversely proportional to your skill, so if you know what you're doing and spend a few months getting everything set up really nicely you can take it easy or work on long-term projects most of the time

>>51396303
chances are high that i'll end up in a similar position after i finish university. always wanted to avoid to work for assholesoftware.

NEET
0
Nothing
Yes

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>>51390716
>What tech related job do you do?
Unemployed, but I spend my time ricing my computer/server, if that counts as tech related.
>Around how much does it pay?
0
>What did you have to do to get the job e.g. degrees, certification e.t.c
BA/MS in maths.
>Also are you happy with this job?
pic related

>>51391736
>third world country
So I guess you live pretty comfortably compared with others in your motherland?

>>51393618
I'd still rice if WindowBlinds was still popular.

>inb4 bloatware
Hey, it could do things not possible in msstyles.

I'm going to school in for nuclear propulsion, but will probably only get ~30k per year because shit navy pay. Luckily after my 6 year enlistment the same job with pay 3x as much in civilian. Honestly don't give a shit if I enjoy it, it pays well and I'll be able to retire early.

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>>51396626
>that feel when I'm the highest paid by 20% of my dev & test classmates after grad

I'm enjoying this buzzword quite a bit, thanks.

>>51390716
Excel monkey for a large business
10 an hour
CS major at a local college
ehhh

>>51392276
What college and course? I'm in LIT doing multimedia programming

>>51396899
All of the devops jobs I have come across are basically the same salary as a sys admin. You lucked out.

>>51396917
I did an Honours Degree in Computing @ IT Tallaght, 1.5+ years ago now tho

I introduced my uncle to encrypted chat applications and now he pays me a retainer to help his associates properly use it and in his words explain why "not using encryption is a reason for me to kick their asses". I also 'maintain' a system that just stores financial data and logs, which is also encrypted. But by maintain I mean I just make sure it doesn't catch fire or something.

It pays 5k a month + I just ask when I want shit since i live with him.

To get the job I had to read 4chan and try various encrypted chat programs when they become a meme for a bit

I'm happy with the job.


I know they're probably still compromised, but for mid level activities getting into encrypted communications is out of the reach of law enforcement.

>>51396949
Is your uncle a mafioso?

>>51396941
I dunno Anon, maybe its where you're based.
I know around Ireland/UK, based on job listings (I've nothing else to go off here) I'd argue devops is higher in demand.

But sure devops is interchangeable with...

devops/sysadmin/automation/site reliability/release engineer.

>>51396949
Make sure to fake a lockdown and force everyone to use gpg for a month while you "secure the databases against an elite hacking group"

>>51396975
and by "demand" I mean listed salary

>>51396975
Canadia

>>51396961
We don't have mafia here but basically the equivalent.

I have no life goals and I'm a lazy cunt so I'll ride the train until we get raided.. I'm not allowed to do anything else work related cause he doesn't want me to get beaten or end up dead or w/e.


>>51396992
All I do is make them change clients/usernames sometimes since they expect there to be some kind of every ongoing war against police snooping.

Honestly I doubt even without encrypted communications they were being monitored, we're not talking el chapo levels of shit here.

It lets me pretend I have some use and stops those type of people from being ultra paranoid which is good I guess, violence + paranoia isn't a good mix.

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Lots of certs, haven't even finished college, my college doesn't even have a web design major so I'm just double majoring in business and computer science.

>120k/year.

>>51391433
Not the same guy, but I had no idea any of this stuff existed near me - exactly what I've been looking for. Already sorted on the job front, but didn't expect there to be so many people with similar interests cohesively coming together. Thanks!

>>51397016
Sounds like a decently comfy setup to be quite honest with you family.

You're kucked if it gets compromised though.

>>51394593
Kek

>>51396994
I've heard bad things about IT pay there, europe isn't great as it is with tax anyway

devops guys tend to do best with large companies with massive infrastructure requirements, they'll be the guys paying the best.

>>51397056
I'm certainly not complaining, I have some level of plausible deniability, depends how the kingdom crumbles.

If communication were to get compromised I'm probably fucked, if they just get raided from being tailed or some genuine police work I should be fine.

I'd still live pretty comfy even in prison, just no internet though, that'd honestly be the worst part.

Machinist.
>inb4 not tech
Fuck you. I probably end up writing more unique code for our CAD software and CNC mills than you fucks do with your shitty little codemonkey jobs. Hell I had to write an OS from scratch for a SoC machine, keep it under 18kb (the entirety of the onboard memory), and still support a touchscreen.

Trade school, 2 years. Earned an associates' of science. Only sort of related are a handful of welding certs that I didn't really need but got anyway. Trade school was about 50% hands-on running the machines, 25% Python, and 25% advanced math (calc, linear algebra, trig).

Pays about $65k plus full benefits every year, if I were willing to put up with union bullshit I could almost double that but I'd give up a lot of job security.

CS student here. I don't have a job, but I felt it would be most appropriate to ask my question in this thread.

When pursuing internships, how important is it to work for a "big name" company? Will it matter in the long run, or do employers care more about the fact that I have experience than the company I interned at?

>>51397362
Internship only works for CS if you're doing an internship in a company you want to work with, if you do it with a professor it's a waste of your time. (especially if you're doing a nonpaid one over the summer)

>>51397362
>do employers care more about the fact that I have experience than the company I interned at?
In my experience, both as a job hunter and on selection committees, mostly that. The sort of company that emphasizes name recognition over experience is probably the sort of either horribly uninformed or horribly trendy place you wouldn't want to work at.

I work in a think tank in NYC that get contracted by all sorts of tech companies.

It pays $64,000 a year, been there for 2 years.

Honestly it's more about enthusiasm than certs, but I personally didn't go to college and got certs instead, I've got A+, Net+ Linux+ Security+, and CCNA.

I probably wouldn't like it if I didn't do general IT work on the side. Thinktanks are cool and really great for meeting people with common interests, but if I wasn't doing hands on tech work I'd probably go insane.

>>51397386
>>51397389

I got an offer for a paid internship at a bigger company, and I don't know if I want to work there in the future (they are more of a java shop and I want to pursue embedded development and low-level OS stuff), but I am just a sophomore in university, and most of the companies that came to our job fair are looking for junior-level or higher students only, and I feel pretty lucky that I landed this spot, but would working through this type of java-dev internship benefit me if I want to go into a different area of software development later down the line?

I am also trying to get a teaching assistant position at my university, for one of my CS classes. Would that look good on a resume to a hiring committee?

>>51391807
>7734$ a year
people at mcdonalds make more than you

get your shit together brah

>>51397481
Yes, take it. Any experience is better than no experience, and if you get good references out of it that'll show potential employers that you can function well in a corporate environment. When hiring, a candidate's ability to not be an autistic fuck is almost as important as actual ability.

TAing wouldn't be a bad idea, but is definitely less important than internships.

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> Senior Software Engineer (really just Web Developer)
> $51k USD/year
> Bachelor's of Science in Computer Information Systems

> Be too dumb for hardware shit so no Comp Sci

Job's ok, except when everyone around me is even more retarded than I am.

>>51397281
>arguing with yourself
kek

>>51397576
I'm not in NYC or the west coast so the salary is reasonable. Could be better, but not entry level either.

>>51397576
>Bachelor's in Science in CIS
Would it be worth going into? Thinking about going into CIS.

>>51397647
Yeah, if you don't mind being a keyboard jockey

>>51397647
CS is for people who really want to be a programming slave.

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Might as well ask here

I'm studying SQL on code academy to help get a MYSQL cert.

Is there a good entry level job title that would require some SQL skills, but not a full blown cert?

I have a BBA in computer info systems, but my job offers are no more than help desk/IT support and I really dont wanna do anything retail or customer servce related, I prefer to be behind a computer and get shit done solo.

>>51397887
You're gonna fail the cert if you're studying from codeacademy, go torrent a book instead.

>>51395713
Contractor? P/d is usually contractors in Blighty.

Fucking sucks, I get paid 120k a year, but I fucking remembered that I have to work for christmas every year.

Meh, contracts suck.

>>51397899
anyone in particular?

>>51396975
I know in NI there's a much bigger SysEng demand than DevOps, which is strange given how prevalent the development market is here.

Interestingly, you never really meet shit DevOps guys.

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how do you guys feel about off topic teaching jobs for the average /g/ user? like maths and sciences for example. the hours seem to be pretty cash for public schools and i wouldnt mind looking at some underage cuties all day, but is it really worth the schooling involved? anyone here /teach/?

Software Engineer. BS degree in Electrical Engineering. 90k. Hot chicks.

>>51398009
35k - 50k a year median

>>51398009
Actually teaching reasonably well is a lot harder and more draining than you'd think. You also have to not mind dealing with people pretty much all day every day. If you're just looking for something to do that's low-effort, don't teach. You'll just make a bunch of kids hate math/science.

>>51391340
Hi, let's just say I'm around the age where you began to learn all of these things.

I have a few questions though, I really appreciate any responses in advance.

>Coding
Where did you begin to learn? I've started picking up the basics from Codeacademy.org, is that really worth anything? Are there more efficient ways you would recommend.

>HackForums
I have found a few that also sparked my interest in networking hacking, and technology in general. I found one that seems decent but mainly script kiddies. I've attempted searching for some but I don't really know where to look. I've tried searching on startpage for some but all the ones I've seen end up being vacant or "howw do I hack my friends insta???" tier stuff.

Thanks again, and have an enjoyable morning, afternoon, or evening depending on your location.

>>51398084
youre probably right. i just honestly thought the days off were sweet desu. ive always done math dead wrong too since i was young, id fuck a kids head up lol.
>>51398072
ty for numbers

I graduated from a college that treated me like shit, and landed a pretty solid job here in Florida for 300k thanks to my outside connections from attending startup weekends every year, and certs.

They are now trying to use my sucess to promote their shitty program which didn't have web design (which I do now, it's just CS not even CIS). How can I stop those fuckers? They are even trying to put one of their fucking building names my last name, what the fuck kind of fucked up mentality is this. I fucking hated that shit hole, and their professors.

They can't use my name like that, can they?

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I own a small computer repair shop. I have 15 or so business clients. I also work in the IT department of a mid-size shipping broker. I have no certificates and no degrees. Just kinda lucked my way into the role. Bout 40k.

>>51398300
>lucked
40k isn't much senpai that aint even middle class tier

>>51390716
>What tech related job do you do?
Substitute professor (I teach networks)
>Around how much does it pay?
$100k
>What did you have to do to get the job e.g. degrees, certification e.t.c
MSc in Comp. Sci.
>Also are you happy with this job?
Yeah.

I do Network Administration stuff for the Air Force.

I'm Enlisted, and just turned twenty. Make 20k a year but I don't have to pay for housing, food, or health insurance.

It's a decent gig, mostly doing the 4 years for job experience and money for college + certs.

>>51398313
It is in the Midwest. Wifie makes about that same. That's on top of GI bill money for school, as well. We do alright.

>>51398260
Send them a cease and desist sempai

Surely if you're making 300k a year you can afford a lawyer to slap one of those up for you

>>51398381
My girlfriend told me the same thing, but I find it ridiculous how they won't listen to me and call it out, and have to spend mad money to fucking stop them of using my name.

Shit man, why can't some people just be dealt like humans, I'll try discussing with my girlfriend since she has a lawyer friend, and ask them if we can financially fuck with them just for the sake of screwing them up for making me waste my time.

>>51390716
>What tech related job do you do?
Call Center
>Around how much does it pay?
11 bucks per hour, pays better, which isn't too considering I seen shittier jobs pay worse.
>What did you have to do to get the job e.g. degrees, certification e.t.c.
It's has pretty low and easy hiring process where
>Also are you happy with this job?
Shit pay(it's not the craziest shit pay job ever so, it's not too bad) for a college graduate, but it's better then unemployed/jobless with grace period of your loans being over.


>>51396297
Bro, there are some call centers will some the most hilariously ease hiring processes in the world You just need a good referral, GED degree level jobs, and customer service related experience.

>What tech related job do you do?
Desktop Systems specialist

>Around how much does it pay
$58k/year + bennies

>What did you have to do to get the job e.g. degrees, certifications, etc
Unrelated degree. A+ certification with work experience

>Also are you happy with this job?
Pretty happy with the job. Nice and cushy. I've interviewed at other places though. I can't answer basic fucking technical questions sometimes and it feels like I'm an impostor sometimes. I need to learn new skills but I don't know what skills to focus on...I hope they don't fire me so I can still get paid while searching what I want to do next and work towards that.

>mfw level 1-2 helpdesk jobs want you to have your CCNA, MSCA/MSCE/MCP

Why the fuck is it so hard to get a entry level job in IT? I have my CCNA and helpdesk, troubleshooting related cert.

>>51390716
Enterprise server tech for a major corporation.
Manage Unix, Linux, Windows, Cisco network equipment, vmware, and avaya phones.
55k as contractor in denver.
I like it, waiting for more pay.
Got it by tinkering with various servers on my own time and have an associate's. Also had 2.5 years experience as basically a system administrator because the director came from web development.

>>51390716
I am a graduate student.
I program models and shit in Fortran (77ish)
It doesn't pay shit but I live cheap so I am comfortable.
Obviously I had to get an undergrad degree first.
I'm comfortable but this gig is coming to an end, got to graduate and shit. No jobs lined up though so I'm pretty fucked.

>>51398631
They honestly care more about experience. I had to do a 6-month unpaid internship to get a foot in the door.

>tfw get call for networking job
>tfw fail easy questions, get hard ones

How? Do you guys have your notes in front of you when you get a call like this?

>>51399093
Wow interesting, I haven't seen people use Fortran.
What exactly do you do

>>51397887
Database career= nightmare mode. Most database jobs have been outsourced.

>>51392365
how did you get started on making the site? I've got a decent knowledge of C++ and a little bit of Python under my belt, but not sure where you would start on a project like that

>>51399219
Start with completely different languages and logical structures. Also have to learn java if you really want to delve into minecraft.

>>51399234
no minecraft, just a site to leach off of surveys

>>51399148
Fuck around with DEMs for rock and soil mechanic type crap. It's honestly pretty tedious and boring... Especially with fucking old ass fortran. Too bad the oil industry, and fracking in particular went bust lol, maybe I can get in with the department of transportation building roads or some civil/geotechnical shit.

>>51392188
SHITTING

>>51390716
>What tech related job do you do?
Web Developer 2 years experience as of next month
>Around how much does it pay?
66k a year after my first year. I'll get a new rate after my eval next month. Cross your fingers.
>What did you have to do to get the job e.g. degrees, certification e.t.c
Bachelor's of Science in CS and I knew a guy.
>Also are you happy with this job?
I enjoy it. Web dev makes it so I'm never really just working with one static piece of software or tech. Each client that comes in has some new (read: old legacy shit) that they need us to work with so I'm always learning something new even when I'm essentially an expert at the last hurdle.

My resume is going to shine should I ever relocate. Probably end of next year.

>>51399408
Php, JavaScript, or asp. Could be done in html5, would need basic sql.

>>51396010
how do you like it? Theres an opening for "Health data analyst" at a local hospital but I'm not sure if I can telecommute for it

>>51397976
not the same anon but don't they have a book for the cert specifically?

Google Intern
6.66k a month. + 9k sign on bonus
:^)

>What tech related job do you do?
eCommerce slave. I pack and ship garbage for my bosses at a warehouse.
>Around how much does it pay?
10/hr
>What did you have to do to get the job e.g. degrees, certification e.t.c
Nothing really. At the time I was hired they were an incredibly small startup and they knew they could get away with paying a computer literate college student much less than what they had to pay someone who had a degree.
>Also are you happy with this job?
I really like it actually. Bosses are great, hours are flexible and the pay is decent. Thanks to all the odd-jobs they've had me do while still getting off the ground I can put "4 years of IT experience" on my resume when I graduate, which hopefully offsets my completely unrelated degree when I start looking for actual /g/ jobs. I'm hoping I can make something to help out our shipping process before I leave next year.

>>51390716

Computer Support Specialist
19.75/hr
Get my A+ certification
I'm pretty happy with it, since it's close to home and the evenings are pretty laid back for the most part.

Looking into getting my Security+ because fuck taking three tests for two certs when I take one test for two certs.

>What tech related job do you do?
Software developer
>Around how much does it pay?
$30/hr, will have a salary at higher pay in a few month
>What did you have to do to get the job e.g. degrees, certification e.t.c
BS in CS, applied, interviewed, got in
>Also are you happy with this job?
Extremely. Work for a super laid-back company that balances life and work really well. Most people I work with are competent and enjoyable, too.

>>51400104
It can actually be pretty rewarding if you enjoy/can put up with the healthcare world. Despite some insane industry changes in the past few years, the IT side seems to have evolved very, very slowly. A big part of my job has turned out to be either maintaining ancient legacy code, or working to automate things that should have been automated from the get-go.

I suppose it's kind of frightening when you think about how much personal data flows through these systems with people like me behind the wheel.

>>51401135
Also -- not sure if this is just my company, but there is a serious age gap between myself and my coworkers. I'm the youngest in my department by a good 15 years, and I'm nearly thirty. This and the telecommuting makes it pretty difficult to connect with people on the rare occasions when we do meet (company events, big meetings, etc.).

This is on the payer side, though. Hospitals may be different, not sure.

>>51395316
Do you work with Andrew Ng?

I'm an iOS developer, who mainly works in node.js.

I'm making a lot of money, but hate my job.

24, Security Analyst, $65k. SF, CA

>>51391276
Link me up with connections like this

>>51396717
I thought the same thing... "holy hell this software company produces unusable and overcomplicated crap, hope I never work for them"

>>51390716
Malware dev
30k a month

>>51391276
i'm making more money than 98% of people on the planet----think I'll switch onto something else.

Listen, you little prick, some of us, namely me, lives in a shitty third world country and makes little over 5 bucks an hour. A major gaggly fuck to be sure but all went down thanks to or in part of or due to the many unwielding circumstances all up to and including an evaporation of my previous lucrative job thanks to the fuck all the post housing bubble cluster fuck gave birth to. So some of us are literally bottom feeders. Trying to get in the tech game, I am but failing miserably because writing C code is so fucking boring, but i'm getting thank God, slowly! tried Java wasn't sure what the fuck was going on, Got confused, then went back to C's familiarity. Will keep tugging with C.

But yo, you're making more than I'd make if i worked my present job for 12 years on---in one fucking year.

buck the fuck up and be thankful, you ungrateful cretin.

>>51403088

Sounds like you're not trying hard enough.

Security Engineer
100k usd
No degree, just skillsj
Very happy

>>51403099
truthfully i'm not. not as hard as i could be. i'm a bit of an old shoe when it comes to learning things.

hire me as a touch up worker and have me look for one error in a billion lines of code and i'll do it. the longer i do it the more familiar the code comes to me and the better i am at sitting down for hours on end in front of endless ocean of code.

however, ask me about the housing bubble or the way the treasury and the fed cluster fuck Americans, and anything just about, about world war 2, and i could spend hours and hours reading, and writing and thinking. ask me about theoretical physics and you and i can go on all day about it....ask me about C, and there's maybe one thing i can recall about learning.

it's how i learn, if i'm working for you, and you put me in front of a computer and give me a list of things to change in a million lines of code, I promise you, I'd not only dedicate myself to changing it but i'd spend hours and hours and hours understanding the hows and whys. data entry and databases was a part of my former job which i did, and did well.

>>51390716
>What tech related job do you do?
Not really tech related, but unlike 80% of people on /g/. I do have a job.
I'm a Manager's Assistant in an off-track betting shop.

>Around how much does it pay?
On my contract (25 hours), £7.80/hour, £702/month, after taxes, before overtime.

>What did you have to do to get the job e.g. degrees, certification e.t.c
Be able to count to ten. And Smile when serving customers.

>Also are you happy with this job?
I'm in the dry, there's air conditioning, the work is easy, and the customers are a laugh to chat with. Bretty gud.

>>51403145
>hire me as a touch up worker and have me look for one error in a billion lines of code and i'll do it. the longer i do it the more familiar the code comes to me and the better i am at sitting down for hours on end in front of endless ocean of code.
>it's how i learn, if i'm working for you, and you put me in front of a computer and give me a list of things to change in a million lines of code, I promise you, I'd not only dedicate myself to changing it but i'd spend hours and hours and hours understanding the hows and whys.

>tfw kinda like this guy but unemployed
>tfw people tell me i can't communicate

>>51402774
> aside from pay it's really good for what it is, not much innovation going on, but a quite secure sector with outlook for a permanent position sometime in the future

well therefore you sound quite content - which honestly eases my worries about that prospect. you'll stay?

>>51404119
yes I will

Sell online gold with my bots and shitpost on /g/

Great while living in mom's basement eating hotpckets at 40.

>>51390716
>What tech related job do you do?
I'm an embedded systems programming intern. Then I do contract work as a web developer on the side.
>Around how much does it pay?
Intern: 17 bucks an hour. Contract work: can range from 20-40 dollars an hour.
>What did you have to do to get the job e.g. degrees, certification e.t.c
No degrees or certs. For the contract work, nobody asks about college degree. It's just about experience and attitude. For the internship, a hackathon teammate recommended me for it.
>Also are you happy with this job?
Very much so. I'm just starting out and can't afford a degree, so this lets me build my skills/experience in two fun and lucrative directions.

>>51404379
Thats sounds sick minus the living in mommy's basement part
But we are no longer attached by an umbilical cord so I can live wherever I want

>>51390716
"IT Assistant"
Basically I fix shit and administrate a Windows network for a non-profit organisation.

£6.50/hour

Mediocre, but I enjoy it and it is my first IT job.

In last year of HND Computing after doing a Level 3 in the same. Looking to top up next year in Security or Software Engineering.

Built a database for another local charity before as well, which helped get me this job (I've been cleaning up their clusterfuck of a CRM database).

>>51390716
am i the only android dev in this thread? fuck ios devs

>What tech related job do you do?
Devops engineering consultant
>Around how much does it pay?
110-150k depending on the assignment
>What did you have to do to get the job e.g. degrees, certification e.t.c
Bachelors in computer science, know people in the business, worked my ass off
>Also are you happy with this job?
My current assignment blows, but Ill be out of here in january

>>51403088
>I know C
>can't understand java
What. I've never met anyone like this

>>51403145
>>51403852
Every fucking kid out there feels they're special and brilliant.
Fuck off, quit whining and get to work

>>51405248
What do you mean android dev?
Do you work with low level stuff or do you make applications if so who pays you to make apps

$100k/year general IT in the US

Associates in IS no certs :^)

>>51405323
>> not in 1st world country
>> doesn't understand java but understands c (not c++)
He's either coding for Windows 95 or some other ancient artifact. C++ has been used for just about everything for the past 15 years. The reason for the shit pay is literally no one needs a dedicated c coder anymore.

Btw raw c isn't object-oriented, that's why java makes no sense.

VFX
100
no degree
yes

>What tech related job do you do?
ops, essentially outsourced admin, also system architecture for new deployments
>Around how much does it pay?
ca. 30k euro per year before taxes
>What did you have to do to get the job e.g. degrees, certification e.t.c
Formal education in the field, few low-end certifications
>Also are you happy with this job?
no I'd rather do something outside of IT but I don't have any other skills

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>What tech related job do you do?
sysadmin @ it firm, helpdesk (tier 1, 2, 3+)

>Around how much does it pay?
20/hr. i usually work 20 hrs a week, but i could easily work 100.

>What did you have to do to get the job e.g. degrees, certification e.t.c
gave them my resume and letters of rec from previous jobs showing them i was a hard worker. i offered them 2 days as an unpaid intern to show them i was capable. i have a GED and no certs. they hired me 3 hours into the first day starting @ $16.5/hr

>Also are you happy with this job?
i work from home (sometimes in my underwear). i get to write and deploy scripts on thousands of computers. i work with windows, linux and OSX in both servers and workstations, my boss and coworkers are super nice and bought me beer as a gift for my birthday, i get to keep hardware that our clients are throwing away (ive accumulated 1000s of dollars worth of hardware). so yeah, this is cool but not what i want to do for the rest of my life. i want to get into a physical job that involves being outside.

ask me anything.

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>>51390716

>having a job

>>51410275
>sign on the freeway says sacramento
>recognize that overpass

if im not mistaken thats 880, i used to drive that every morning. but i didnt start work until 10am so it wasnt that bad for me.

>>51409866
Where did you gain experience and what was your previous job? I'm trying to get an idea of where to start

>What tech related job do you do?
Support Desk dealing with the General Public

>Around how much does it pay?
71k~

>What did you have to do to get the job e.g. degrees, certification e.t.c
Know basic linux skills, and know how to google

>Also are you happy with this job?
Job is boring as hell, but it pays well and is only 40 hours a week

>>51409866
>2 days as an unpaid intern to show them
what did you do during those 2 days anon?

>tfw being kept as an intern since months

>>51411290
i worked at the UPS store and a copy store (like paper and xerox). But i just gravitated toward the computer things i could do in both of those job. at the copy place i became 1/2 my regular job and 1/2 jr sysadmin.

>>51411392
my post says
>the hired me 3 hours into the first day
they had me reinstall windows, install office, hook up a printer....you need to be able to do all that basic shit to support people. everything else i do was just added to my job description as we went. hence the $4 raise. which i got in about a year.

>>51410275
And just where are you getting the funding for this lifestyle you unproductive cunt. Don't even say the government because they get poverty tier allowances...

>>51411653
I want to just be able to go into a job but I don't really know anyone that can get me something and I'm not sure its worth the risk to just try it. I live in rural England so I'd have to move to find anything

>>51411801
The 7 kids they have to fun their lifestyle

>>51412164
well then get allot of schooling. thats what schooling is for. a degree says "i dont have real world experience, but i have the knowledge to do what you want me to do."

in my experience looking for and getting tech jobs, people want experience more than a degree and certs. but people get job with just school all the time. i didnt so i cant help you there. i got through 1/2 a semester at a community college and decided fuck that. shit was boring as fuck.

>>51390716
In-house Systems Analyst

Started at 60K, now at 69K a year later, will probably break 70K with yearly raise. This is in the DFW area so low cost of living.

Degree in MIS and logistics, good interviewing skills, said on my resume I'd taken a class in SAP.

It's decent. Some days it's boring as fuck, other days it's stressful, but it's usually quite manageable. It satisfies my autistic need to learn a lot of esoteric shit about business processes and how to relate them to ERP system processes. The pay is decent, the pay-to-sweat ratio is great, and the job market seems good too. I could just stay in-house and have a very easy life, or I could go into consulting and make a shitload of money but also work long hours and travel a lot. We'll see.

>>51412331
Well I'm looking to apply for a computer science with security and forensics course at a Russel group uni so hopefully that should set me up

>>51412353
>travel a lot
thats what i want on my next job. planes and hotels across the country baby.

>>51412463
>security
ive heard there good money in that field. ive also heard its competitive as fuck.

>>51412464
consulting, my friend.

aerospace engineer (mostly software though)
$89k
masters degree aerospace engineering
no, defense industry is shit stay away

>>51412472
That's why I'm hoping the choice of uni may give me a slight edge. Planning to get some certifications as well in the future.

Would anyone know what certs are important in security? What looks good on CV? I heard comptia security+ is pretty bad but some places want to see it

>>51395531

>you can't even make the effort to speak right
>speak right

"Right" is an adjective, and as such, cannot modify a verb such as "speak". Such an instance requires the use of an adverb. I believe the phrase you are looking for is "speak correctly".

>>51413166
golly we gots one of them there edumacated folks...preach it brother for your parishioners listens attentively, that is to say we hears you loud and clear.

>>51412491
And how does one get into Consulting? I'm majoring in CS if that helps

>>51412519
do you atleast get to work with cool UAVs though?