What do ppl on thecoli do?

[AyBrehHam Linkin]

I do temp work for local schools atm, but im in school for IT-Network Security.


I hit a company up at a job fair the day before, gave them my resume and applied, n they sent me the test and set up a video interview. My interview went great, and i had a very strong test score. Hopefully they hit me up

I've applied to HELLA tech places, have done so many interviews recently

 

[ThiefyPoo]

4 Weeks and making 55K.

At least be realistic. Yea it is a great field to be in but you are not getting employed after putting in 4 weeks of work. Realistically if you are studying 8+ hours a day for 6 months you could probably land a job as a junior dev making between 45-50K if EVERYTHING goes right.

But once you get that first job and prove yourself as competent you are set

I am speaking as someone who got a Econ degree worked in finance and decided to switch up careers. I have been working at it for around 6 months now and just accepted my first dev job.

That's your experience doe I've seen someone go through their first semester of Whatever IT school .They learned to code a bit and had a 50k job . I've seen it so don't speak for everyone .

I'm also not in IT

 

[patscorpio]

For this that want know about this IT life please visit IT stickied thread in Higher Learning..it has plenty of information and real talk

 

[Gold]

How can I acquire some certs? I'm really motivated to get into this field and have tons of free time, I just need to be pointed in the right direction. Thanks for any response

It depends, what are you trying to do?

Support is a good starting point but there is only really 1 cert you would get for that.

These are the most likely branches you would go into. And they all have heavy overlap
Networking
Security
Systems Admin
Infrastructure

Or you can go into management (you will need school for this though, certs wont be enough).

Or you can forego all of that and go the development route.

This requires 0 certs, 0 degrees, just complete and total dedication to your craft

(however I know very few devs who didn't major in CS or CE in college)

 

[Gold]

Breh I've been programming for about a year and a half and you're telling me people can get a job in the field after only 4 weeks of study?

How do I actually break in?

What have you created?
How does your portfolio look like?

Have you been programming for about a year in a half? or have you been taking classes for a year in a half?

I didn't have to "break in" because I got a programming job right out of college, but what got me an even better job was a summer personal project I did of joining a team of programmers online to reverse engineer a popular video game (completely illegal). It was the shining spot on my resume for about 2 years. The base of the code was done by the more advanced programmers in the group, and that is something that I'm still not capable of, but I learned PLENTY during that time.

I'm not talking about school or casual programming, I'm talking about passionate developers. The people who are writing psuedocode on napkins on lunch or thinking of different ways to organize methods in their existing code. I'm talking about daydreaming about doing a step-through debug.

Stackoverflow was my homepage for an entire year

 

[Gold]

Would you recommend this even though I'm tryna get into networking?

No, those are two very different career paths.

I switched from development to networking so I can help out with this.

I would reccomend you did what I did and get CCNA certified.
To prepare for your test... LAB LAB LAB LAB.

If you have any freetime, LAB.

Now I doubt you have Cisco switches and routers laying around your house, so you need the software.

I recommend GNS3 (Download Here), but honestly I would try all the free ones I can find.

IF you're really serious about it, hit me up and I can hook you up from some of the best study materials available.

 

[Yo Mama]

3rd year law student

 

[KritNC]

That's your experience doe I've seen someone go through their first semester of Whatever IT school .They learned to code a bit and had a 50k job . I've seen it so don't speak for everyone .

I'm also not in IT

Na that is just not realistic. Telling people that they only need to study something for four weeks and then they will get a job is just misinformation.
If you are speaking on IT then maybe it is different but I am saying for programming you are looking at 4 months not 4 weeks and that 4 months is if you eat breath and sleep coding.

Trust me this is not just from my experience I taught a programming bootcamp class and go to see first hand how long it took for students to pick up these concepts

 

[beenz]

I work for a software company that provides software that most hospitals use to capture patient safety, quality and utilization metrics with.

I can work at home because I work with our clients (who are hospitals) and they are all over the united states, thus I don't need to be physically in an office. plus my company only has two offices. one in TN and one in AZ.

and my job involves helping our clients use our products for either process improvement, report buildling/generation, health care clinical analytics, or the functionality or functional usage of our products. And most of the time, I can do that with webex. and VERY rarely I will have to travel to the actual client site.

 

[unit321]

Graphic design/web design and plan on doing css,java,html certs and shyt..

Why do you have a slash over your name ?

 

[Diondon]

Budgeting let's talk

Sup?

 

[beenz]

Currently selling cars at the local Maserati dealership.

Hopefully will be moving to Mitsubishi dealer here soon to become VP of Finance. Been waiting for my uncle to open up a dealer for years. Going to be a very stressful rest of the year. #blackexcellence though.

that's an interesting job. the type of car you sell, most people cannot afford, so how many do you have to move a month in order to ???

do they only expect you to sell like 3 cars a month?

 

[beenz]

Network Engineer and Symantec SME


If only I got paid to post on TheColi

if you're working your 9-5 and posting at the same time, technically you are getitng paid to post here.

 

[Rawtid]

I'm a developer/analyst for a healthcare company but I'm looking to transition out of the Corporate Environment by the end of June. I recently obtained my real estate license and I have a few side jobs that I'm lining up and hoping to confirm start date and pay before June gets here. I just plan on grinding like crazy because I'm not about this 9-5 life anymore.

 

[Gold]

Na that is just not realistic. Telling people that they only need to study something for four weeks and then they will get a job is just misinformation.
If you are speaking on IT then maybe it is different but I am saying for programming you are looking at 4 months not 4 weeks and that 4 months is if you eat breath and sleep coding.

Trust me this is not just from my experience I taught a programming bootcamp class and go to see first hand how long it took for students to pick up these concepts

As I said in an earlier post, I may have been a bit hyperbolic, my goal was to motivate not misinform. Development is something that you choose what pace you want to learn at. Probably moreso than any professional field I can think of.

I'm only speaking from real life experience. I went to school for CE, so I don't count because I had some form of programming every semester but 2. However my Brother, who I mentioned before, taught himself java in a month and got a job off of 2 simple projects he made. Kesi Maduka (my ex gf's youngest bro) was 13 when he taught himself how to code and created music+ within weeks of building his first hackintosh. It wasn't a release candidate in weeks, but he taught himself how to do it in weeks. I know, i was there mentoring him.

Development is strictly what you put into it. . I know people have 2 years+ of programming "experience" and can't code their way out of a wet bag. And one of them has been here for 4 years and has the title "Senior" developer