Chit-Chat: In the midnight hour, she cries because she's sad and alone and just a little pathetic.

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Oryx said:
I wish I could just skip all the graduation stuff and sit at home all day to be honest. I'll be happy to have some time to relax a bit though when I get home before I start working.
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there was a month and a half between my last exam and my convocation date, so I was already working by the time I had my graduation
 
My semester finished last Thursday.

Feels good being home and working to get paid, and not in a suite full of loud, messy people, some of whom don't care about their environments. X_X
 
TRIFORCE89 said:
there was a month and a half between my last exam and my convocation date, so I was already working by the time I had my graduation
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Urgh that sounds terrible. I am terrified of my new job.
 
AT&T! I'm going to be a programmer. I'm just waiting for the day they wake up and realize that I actually suck
 
How much does being a programmer pay? I have no intention of being one, I'm just curious.
 
My father gave me some words of advice about monetizing your passions. For him it was music and art (guitar and painting specifically); he told me that its a bad trade to sell your passion, as in the end the driving force behind what makes it great is lost when you slap a template or a quota or whathaveyou on it. Everybody tells me I should go into IT as I could easily excel in it, and even though I know I could and would I don't want to, since the aforementioned philosophy rings so much sense to me.
 
TRIFORCE89 said:
I've been a programmer for a year now and no one's caught onto that yet lol So, you'll be fine
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Your secret's safe with me!

The Void said:
How much does being a programmer pay? I have no intention of being one, I'm just curious.
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I'm not sure if I'm allowed to disclose salary information so publicly (who knows? I'm too new to know) but my just out of college job is over 50k a year...but less than 100k.
 
Oryx said:
I'm not sure if I'm allowed to disclose salary information so publicly (who knows? I'm too new to know) but my just out of college job is over 50k a year...but less than 100k.
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What did you major in? CS?
 
Do you consider that 50k annually a lot (much more than enough to cover basic needs)?
 
Speaking of jobs I've put in an application for my first at McDonald's and am checking out Wendy's preferably. I got some really good vibes from an assistant manager that gave me the paper with my credentials. I think I was right about Wendy's being a good place to work — it seems to have a really positive environment. ^^
 
I am working for 3 months now at a local supermarket and the team and enviroment are the best you can wish for imo. Even if you screw something up but do the rest well, that one thing is easily forgotten (speaking from experience xD)
 
Arago said:
What did you major in? CS?
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English and Computer Applications. I basically got this job through nepotism; I won a contest for coding a mobile app that AT&T ran and the VP of the company met me through it and liked me so he pushed to get me a job, haha.

The Void said:
Do you consider that 50k annually a lot (much more than enough to cover basic needs)?
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It costs around 20k a year to live where the job is, for reference. :)
 
Nepotism is really a practice I tend to frown upon, especially since I don't know anybody closely that works in the same field(s) that I've been applying into, and it makes me jealous to hear someone I know get a job easily because of it.

At least I start my first job soon, though! I'll be working at my college's student services office as a student worker.
 
Well I mean in my defense I did win a big contest so it's more of a joke because they're aware of my coding skills since I won a coding competition.

Nepotism is never going to go away though so you might as well go out and meet someone from your field! Tell them you have to interview them for a project and then tell them you're also really interested in what they're doing and could you watch them work to understand how the job works and then you chat with them and BAM nepotized.
 
Nepotism...
*immediately google translates and looks in a dictionary*
:c
/me has troubles understanding what that means anyway
So I'll just not contribute to the conversation today and hide in this corner here :l
*hides in this corner*
 
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