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Life's a mess right now - job ideas? UPDATED!
danny_galaga:
--- Quote from: saint on January 23, 2007, 08:56:49 am ---Heh. I have it on good authority you're a trouble-maker.
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--- Quote from: saint on January 22, 2007, 09:08:21 pm ---Look into IT support in the school industry. That's what I do (Network Manager) -- I recently hired a 50+ year old doing tech support at roughly 35-40k a year with school system benefits. I hired him because he had basic computer skills, and a good solid work ethic. His age was actually a bonus as we were wanting some stability.
--- Quote from: RTSDaddy2 on January 22, 2007, 08:48:39 pm ---Lew- I appreciate your honesty regarding the computer field. That's interesting to me that the lack of experience would hurt more than the amount of dust on my degree. :D (laugh with me, it's ok). You're a good guess of age (which also makes this hard!)!
I wish I could believe that it's the right field, wrong location - but I've lost a lot of my confidence as a result of all this. Part of me still does feel that way, but without sounding too "poor me tonight", :censored: I'm tired of being kicked around by education.
Mr. C - I'm just so stupified by this whole thing that I cannot even think of what an I.T. person does. Maybe tomorrow the abbrev will make sense and I can look into it.
BTW, I didn't really expect to find much in the arcade industry...just thought it'd be an interesting question to ask.
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any room for a fairly stable 37 year old ;D and which state do i immigrate to...
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wa? huh? :angry: and you just see if i dont!
AlanS17:
Well there's always the option of teaching in a private school if you want to stick to what you know.
I also have a boxed set of official Microsoft Press books to study for an MCAD (Microsoft certified application developer) certification if you're interested. Getting that certification might go quite a ways towards catching up with current technology. Are you familiar with object-oriented programming? What languages do you know?
I'm a 27 year old programmer with a business degree. I learned what I know from experience rather than a classroom.
There's no reason why an entry-level developer with an MS certification can't start in the $40k range. Within a few years, you can easily jump to a job in the $50k range (or even higher). That's assuming you want to do do it.
RTSDaddy2:
What I'd love to do Alan, is to find a job teaching music say - in a private school - and then agree to go back to school to take classes to be certified in that.
Here's the deal: I have 32 years of experience playing piano, 20 years of songwriting experience, and some professional touring experience. I also have 4 + years of choral music training. PROBLEM: That doesn't count for diddly squat to a school looking for a music teacher on occasion because they have to have so many certified people on staff.
ChadTower:
You haven't given us enough info to come up with any useful advice. The general impression before was that you were simply being cut - cost/headcount measure. Now you're implying you are being let go for some type of misconduct and/or poor performance (actual or otherwise).
If you want better advice you're going to have to give us better info.
RTSDaddy2:
True enough, and thanks Chad for bringing me round to my senses. I think for this forum just the advice you've given about work ideas is enough. On with the thread.
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