Been thinking about that. Getting a techie job of some sort up at school would be ideal, cos the pay is comparable (if not better) than what I got AND the discounted tuition is mighty attractive.TheCatt wrote:Time to find a real job.
"...and remember next Friday is... - Hawaiian shirt day..."
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
The remainder of my job will be devoted to finding a new job. I was hoping I could ride this fucker out at least till Christmas.TPRJones wrote:I'm down to less than two weeks, so I should start looking, too.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Nah, I quit. My original last day was supposed to be October 31st, but they begged me to stay until the 15th. Not that it's doing them any good; the person they hired for me to train is very nice, but she doesn't know anything about programming and I'm trying to teach her the subtleties of creating and maintaining visual basic macro enabled spreadsheets. It's rapidly turning into a major disaster, and the grants accounting processes should be grinding to a halt by early December. Good luck to them on getting their $28 million reimbursed after that.
Not my problem. They shouldn't have tried to hire my replacement at $8 per hour. They need a programmer to do what they want done. They got me for cheap ($13 / hr) for a few years, but I'm done.
Not that that's why I quit. They restructured our department and the new boss of my boss is a bitchy stuck-up whore who doesn't know a journal voucher from her ass and literally has done nothing in her two months in charge but create absurdly unneccesary forms, nitpick everyone's timesheets, and write up my boss on (as of today) 14 seperate occasions (and in every case it's either something she didn't do, something rediculously nitpicky, or something that was total bullshit like when she wrote her up for rebutting prior write-ups as is required by the HR department, then wrote her up for NOT rebutting that write-up because it's required byt the HR department).
I explained my boundless contempt for her in great detail when I turned in my letter on October 1st. Since then she's been avoiding me, which is wise on her part. (Well, except last Tuesday when she came in and tried to kiss my ass and ask me to stay and I told her not as long as she's still employed here would I ever consider staying)
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Not my problem. They shouldn't have tried to hire my replacement at $8 per hour. They need a programmer to do what they want done. They got me for cheap ($13 / hr) for a few years, but I'm done.
Not that that's why I quit. They restructured our department and the new boss of my boss is a bitchy stuck-up whore who doesn't know a journal voucher from her ass and literally has done nothing in her two months in charge but create absurdly unneccesary forms, nitpick everyone's timesheets, and write up my boss on (as of today) 14 seperate occasions (and in every case it's either something she didn't do, something rediculously nitpicky, or something that was total bullshit like when she wrote her up for rebutting prior write-ups as is required by the HR department, then wrote her up for NOT rebutting that write-up because it's required byt the HR department).
I explained my boundless contempt for her in great detail when I turned in my letter on October 1st. Since then she's been avoiding me, which is wise on her part. (Well, except last Tuesday when she came in and tried to kiss my ass and ask me to stay and I told her not as long as she's still employed here would I ever consider staying)
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"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
Heh. No, but I'm a very very fast learner. Tell me what you want done and could know how by this time tomorrow. 
Sadly, that sort of thing doesn't show on a resume. My resume is all accounting, as tech support and programming has always been a side dish on my jobs. *sigh*
Forever doomed to beancounting, when it's the programming that I love. 'Course the upside is that I make new tools and systems to speed up the beancounting so much that I get to spend 80% of my time surfing the web and still get the job done faster than the other beancounters, so I guess it works out.
Sadly, that sort of thing doesn't show on a resume. My resume is all accounting, as tech support and programming has always been a side dish on my jobs. *sigh*
Forever doomed to beancounting, when it's the programming that I love. 'Course the upside is that I make new tools and systems to speed up the beancounting so much that I get to spend 80% of my time surfing the web and still get the job done faster than the other beancounters, so I guess it works out.
"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
If you replace "beancounting" w\ "glorified data entry," it sounds like we're leaving similar gigs.TPRJones wrote:'Course the upside is that I make new tools and systems to speed up the beancounting so much that I get to spend 80% of my time surfing the web and still get the job done faster than the other beancounters, so I guess it works out.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Why are you doomed to beancounting? People are getting desperate for software devs right now.
I'm an Econ major, but all I've ever done is IT work. I'm sure you could restructure the resume to put more emphasis on the IT stuff. Heck, if you really do that much with new tools, efficiency, reorging processes, etc, that'd be 90% of the resume, in my mind. People love people who improve things.
I'm an Econ major, but all I've ever done is IT work. I'm sure you could restructure the resume to put more emphasis on the IT stuff. Heck, if you really do that much with new tools, efficiency, reorging processes, etc, that'd be 90% of the resume, in my mind. People love people who improve things.
It's not me, it's someone else.
Well, I find that the jobs you can get greatly depends on your interviewer. If you get someone that knows the score, you can be a helluva lot more frank w\ them & give them the real story of your work experiences. If you get some corporate HR drone, it's just better to do the conversation by the book.
But as my cousin once said, "The most valuable ability you can develop is your ability to learn things in general."
But as my cousin once said, "The most valuable ability you can develop is your ability to learn things in general."
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
I stress it on the jobs, so it's about 80% of the resume, but the title are still "Grants Compliance Specialist" and "Assistant to the CFO". Not much to be done with those pesky titles.
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"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
I've got two separate resumes -- one for IT work, one for barkeeping. & if my position has a sucky-ass name, I at least put in some impressive-sounding description in brief sprinkled w\ buzzwords & such. I find that it sometimes makes up for a shitty title or "official" description of your previous gig.TPRJones wrote:I stress it on the jobs, so it's about 80% of the resume, but the title are still "Grants Compliance Specialist" and "Assistant to the CFO". Not much to be done with those pesky titles.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
You live in the Houston area right? Hmmm. You interested in other IT-related work in addition to programming? I can't promise anything, and our main office is in Raleigh, but we have a small remote office in Houston. We need someone who can do general IT stuff (probably including some process documentation) - user Admin, programming, scripting of admin stuff, etc.TPRJones wrote:I stress it on the jobs, so it's about 80% of the resume, but the title are still "Grants Compliance Specialist" and "Assistant to the CFO". Not much to be done with those pesky titles.
Currently we're trying to get local college students, but it'd be nice to get someone more experienced.
It's not me, it's someone else.
Sure, as long as it'll pay enough to cover the bills, I'm definately interested! My one weekness when it comes to IT is that I've not done much with large-scale network admin; my IT experience is mostly related to desktop systems themselves (well, except my own home network but that's not at all the same). As I say, though, I'm a fast learner and an excellent problem solver, so as long as I could ask you (or someone else) the occasional question in the beginning I'd be fine. I'm also a good generalist; doing IT and programming and user admin and scripting and etc doesn't daunt me at all.
Heck, you've probably gotten at least a vague idea of what I can do just from our occasional techie convos. At this point I'd rate myself as a highly skilled ametaur looking to go pro.
One note: I never did get my BS; I quit with 12 hours to go. I've got an AA if that's sufficient to apply with. Just let me know.
Oh, one other question: which side of Houston? Houston's a big place. It could be about 45 miles away through nasty traffic and still be in Houston, depending.
Heck, you've probably gotten at least a vague idea of what I can do just from our occasional techie convos. At this point I'd rate myself as a highly skilled ametaur looking to go pro.
One note: I never did get my BS; I quit with 12 hours to go. I've got an AA if that's sufficient to apply with. Just let me know.
Oh, one other question: which side of Houston? Houston's a big place. It could be about 45 miles away through nasty traffic and still be in Houston, depending.
"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
I'll find out, I've never been to the Houston office.
I figure there's two possibilities:
1) Full-time, but stuff you can mostly do from home (VPN'd and such)
2) Contract, part-time, for stuff we need done in Houston, but isn't worth someone flying out there. Could supplement whatever other job you have/get.
You're on the SE part of Houston?
I figure there's two possibilities:
1) Full-time, but stuff you can mostly do from home (VPN'd and such)
2) Contract, part-time, for stuff we need done in Houston, but isn't worth someone flying out there. Could supplement whatever other job you have/get.
You're on the SE part of Houston?
It's not me, it's someone else.