job hunt

Robert0380 · 08-26-2003, 02:42 AM

i need a job.

i search online, tho im desperate, i cannot bring myself to apply for a job with a company that says they use IIS or ASP or anything MS related. I have an attitude where I dont wanna waste my skills on such inferior products.

anybody else have that attitude when it comes to looking for a job?

finegan · 08-26-2003, 03:26 AM

Uh, yeah...

Every friggin' day. I'm utterly underqualified, at least on paper... I guess, Tricky and Jer kept telling me at LWE that they didn't understand why I was working in a library. Regardless, I could probably hack out some Win-idiot support gig somewhere making what I make now and eventually shovel my way into being able to play with a *NIX for a living, but I just don't see it happenin'

Then, even if you get a nice admin gig, your job is too easy, everything just works, so you end up getting drafted into keeeerap, like my buddy Patrick over at google, who had to put in a 36 hour shift to clean 200 laptops of the Blaster worm.

Heck though, you graduated from gatech with a CS degree right? It still looks bleak now, but get in touch with all of those jokers you knew 2 years ago, see if they can network you through the friend chain. Its a cheap way to get a job, but its not like HotJobs is really going to do it for you... supervisors will always take someone on the recommendation of one of their better workers over putting an ad in the AJC.

Cheers,

Finegan

Whitehat · 08-26-2003, 10:12 PM

Well...

I feel your pain. Unless you learn to "play well with others" you will never get a good job in IT.

I work in a mainly MS environment. I like that. I can figure out how to make my SAMBA box a member of the domain, and let users store files on my Linux box

I like knowing that when they print the don't know it is going to the Linux print server

You have to create your own Linux job

I am !

csDraco_ · 09-17-2003, 07:01 AM

I too am just starting to look for a job after completing all my courses for a CS degree.

It is an interesting concept to be working in a M$ environment, and slowely replace the M$ boxes with Linux machines

One can now look at that job as one with a higher purpose ... he he