[olug] Finally, geek for a living

[Patrick Olsen]

I just got hired on at a new place...Was looking for while..I just got a 
call about my resume from TekSystems i wont be going in for and interview 
because i have a great new opportunity at this place. Also i got an email 
from a place in NYC asking if i was willing to move there...Would i yes but 
again to good of new job. Money is one thing you might have to take a dent 
on anymore... I know one kid that wont work for under 80k and he just 
graduated "moron" beggers and be choosers also your degree dosent mean 
anything really in today market...I make more than both my roommates and i 
get my associates in Nov. They both graduated from UNO with Computer Eng. 
funny how that works....But none of them had actual work experience...Thats 
KEY today...


>From: Eric Lusk <wyrmzr72 at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
>To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
>Subject: Re: [olug] Finally, geek for a living
>Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 13:42:03 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Yeah, I did the tech support thing at West for a
>while... Not a good thing for someone with allergies,
>I found myself losing my voice talking so much on the
>phone....
>But you've got to HAVE a job to GET one, so I had no
>problem doing the customer service job I'm doing; I
>was even referred by my current employer to my future
>one.
>So long as I can keep busy, I'll be in good shape.
>Been so underpaid for so long that I'll probably still
>have to do the bankruptcy thing to catch back up to
>where I used to be...
>For those of you looking, make sure you have a good
>resume and you may have to be willing to do some
>pathetic job to get by while you look, but it sure
>beats sitting around the house doing nothing.
>At least, most of the time...
>--- shaughn at emosai.net wrote:
>
> > Well, good job / luck! I recently got layed off from
> > doing tech work /
> > webmaster. Only problem is this town pretty much HAS
> > no other computer
> > jobs. I could do phone support for 6 dollars an
> > hour.
> >
> > don't know why i replied, just congrads!
> >
> > > Well, 2 weeks from now I'll be back to being a
> > geek
> > > for a living.  Have been doing jobs for a while
> > that
> > > have not even approached using my troubleshooting
> > and
> > > server skills; right now I'm in a customer service
> > > job... it's money...
> > > Only thing w/this new job is there will be more
> > > window$ server stuff to learn; I've run a lot
> > under
> > > Linux, which so far as I've seen is typically more
> > > difficult; Ive gotten used to having to edit files
> > in
> > > vi, and doing "make install", as opposed to point
> > and
> > > click.  Hope I can get used to the easy stuff :)
> > > Now, if they would only pay me more like
> > $30/hr....
> > > But not in today's market.
> > >
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