it was like that until this year actually...where i finally starting getting props from my client and a vendor my client uses for some of the solutions ive come up with and implemented and how efficient i made certain things
IT Certifications and Careers (Official Discussion Thread)
- Thread starter fendi_mane
- Start date
it was like that until this year actually...where i finally starting getting props from my client and a vendor my client uses for some of the solutions ive come up with and implemented and how efficient i made certain things
it was much worse. had a situation where my boss first brought a task up to me months previously asking if it was feasible to do. he later decided to give the task to a different vendor. but that vendor couldn't do it.
so he brought it up to me again. and expressed that "if you can get this done, it'll really mean a lot to the company". so i did it. i was dedicated. i got it done in just three days. i was excited, thinking everyone would know it was clearly me that did it.
little did i know that when my boss spoke to upper management, he only mentioned me briefly. he made himself look like he was the one that did it. he said, and im paraphrasing "i gave truest the specifications. i told him what math to calculate. i this, i that, i blah blah". when he said that in front of his boss, his boss had a confused look on his face. his boss knew he wasnt a programmer. he's a manager. so his boss was looking at me, and looking at him. when my boss kept saying "i this i that", his boss would interject on some "but truest wrote the program, right"? and my boss would respond "yes, BUT I...". that was my first inkling something was awry.
there was meeting of management a couple of weeks later when the vice president of the company was talking about the accomplishment of the teams that worked for her. when she got to our team, she brought up my bosses name as the person who came up with this magnificent program (the one i wrote). and the whole room was silent. like, whatt. my name was not mentioned once. thankfully, my bosses boss spoke up and said "Truest and Jonathan" both work on that program. and the whole room started to clap.
i learned a lesson that day. i dont like anyone sharing credit in anything i did the work for. i dont like it at all. i started looking into encryption of my programs and scripts from that day on. script encryption is frowned upon in some circles of the programming world, but they can all kiss my ass with that bullsh1t.
I'm the most junior dev on my team and I feel useless sometimesLegacy code is so hard to deal with. I'm almost never able to fix a defect without help.
how long you been there?
2.5 years. I've done lots of difficult shyt there though
I think I just feel pressure to be a rockstar because of the layoffs going on this quarter 
2.5 years. I've done lots of difficult shyt there though
lol man you aint going to know what the heck your doing unless you been somewhere 10+ years. With most gigs every project you are probably learning something new
DamienWayne
Superstar
is the only careers in here within the
IT field with cert requirements?
IT field with cert requirements?
I don't know what you want to know. You can do it with both and you can do it with either. If you go through school you can get an internship or a part time job with the school's help desk. With certs, you'll start making money sooner.
Where do you live? The time it takes to get a gig depends greatly on where you live.
NYC and I already just got offered a Helpdesk position at a school.
I just stayed put at my job, learned a lot, and answered the interview questions thoroughly (which is how they gauged my experience ), and showed my personality. I've learned in IT, your personality is very key and most IT specialist lack that.
As far as education I just showed my flexibility on OS's