Where do you work? (If at all)

Here's posting to a random thread.....What happened to the old site? Why is it disbanded?

I came to H-town in January, and I visited PVCF just before it was disbanded, knowing that chairmansteve lives there......or at least used to live there. I landed a job in Austin just a month ago, and now I have been employed here as a developer.

 

Hosting for the old site was expensive, and Chairmansteve didn't want to run it any longer.

 

You went to H-town looking for chairmansteve? What would you do if you found him?

 

Whats the best "specialization" to get into in IT? It seems like it pays just as good as engineering without the stress and hours.

 

Right now I'd say security. Half of all job opening I see are security jobs. The problem with security is you really need to be an expert in something else first. PC and LAN support is a good way to get in the door but you don't want to stay there. Wide area networking is something you could learn on your own in a year or two but the demand is light. Programing is cool but it takes years to get good at it and the jobs are scarce.

 

Untrue... Engineering (excluding Software engineering) tends to get more money from the start if you actually land on a job (i.e., junior-level or entry-level).

For example, as a junior-level engineer, you may make $75,000 a year, but as a junior-level software engineering, you may be making $65,000 ... But, it also may take you like 10+ months to land on an engineering job compared to 1-2 months in software engineering. So, which is better?


But nowadays, it's very easy to find jobs in Software Engineering (an alter-ego boost for IT guys) -- compared to engineering (Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, Chemical)... The reason is that most of the industries need software, and they can't avoid NOT using computers at all.

LOL, I kept on laughing when I saw titles like "Front-End Engineering" on Dice... They're nothing more than writing HTML. xD



Nah, I didn't specifically look for chairmansteve at H-town, but I was just visiting my cousin there. If I actually met him, I'll have dinner with him and talk about stuff!

 

if you guys have ever seen chairman and pichu talk to each other before, it's a snoozefest, really.

 

I was ad-libbing, to make a quick point. Engineering definitely pays more, by at-least 20%. However, I feel the workload is significantly disproportional to the 20% boost in pay. IT seems like a better deal. You may take home less pay, but atleast you get to go home...

Oh, Software Engineers (CompSci) atleast contains some engineering background. These IT motherfuckers with their Cisco certificates always call themselves Network Engineers. I would like to see them solve some fucking engineering math.

 

Nah, in both cases, you might have to stay a bit late even on the weekends to get the work done. Don't think that if the network goes down in the middle of the night, you won't get on-call at 3AM to go to your office and fix the Cisco routers; of course, at times, you can fix it remotely depending in how much security your firm wants.

 

Ah reminds me of college. Those damn engineers think think they can program! Those damn computer science majors think they're engineers! And then of course the mechanical engineers make fun electrical engineers and vice versa.

 

That is exactly why it pisses me off. I don't like people getting a free engineering titles when they did finished a major for stoners. I've even seen a goddamn job for a "Facilities Engineer" which was basically a janitor by description. Also, any ME that makes fun of EE should get a kick to the dick.

 

Nice workplace

 

Pfft. Everyone knows EE is for people who could hack the maths in ME. Lol, I kid, I kid.

My father has two engineering degrees, one in ME and the other in EE (no, it's not mechantronics), so I have respect for both. And yeah, I also dislike how just about EVERYTHING gets labled with Engineering these days. Unless you do an actual disipline of engineering, you aren't an engineer in my eyes.

 

Although, I suppose I could've used an extra English class or two...

 

Hmm, it's always been my dream to have a real life Voltron mech. It sounds like your father is one of the few with the breadth of training and skills that could finally make it happen. I'll be in touch when I have the funds available...

 

Lol. I'm not sure he'd be able to do that. From my experience with mechs (Mechwarrior ones that is), they tend to be very large and due to their locomotive systems, that is to say legs, they would also require substantial amounts of energy to run. I'd say we don't currently have anything capable of producing that amount of energy that is mobile.

BUT considering that I'm going to major in physics, I'd do postgrad research on fusion technology and come up with a portable fusion reactor for you. That should also give you time to collect the required funds.

 

I work at Boston Scientific as a technician
20years

 

Now I could be wrong but I thought a person had to be certified by some engineering group to be a real engineer. I didn't think a degree was enough.