Re: What is real life like?
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 7:04 pm
One can only dream.Riot wrote:Maybe you and Amp will be besties one day!
One can only dream.Riot wrote:Maybe you and Amp will be besties one day!
Anyone else want to comment on this? How applicable was your education? Do you think it could have been more applicable? If so, do you regret not focusing on learning more applicable skills/knowledge when you were in school?Merk wrote:I was honestly surprised by how utterly inapplicable the shit I learned in college was to my job. Experience becomes invaluable and you'll realize that the dude with 5 years of experience under his belt is many times more dependable than the dude with a master's degree.
Yeah, I've definitely gotten a sense of this since graduating high school, and I'm grateful for it. It's been said that life passes by more quickly as one gets older (partially (?)) because fewer of our experiences tend to be totally new ones. This strikes me as a profound thought.Merk wrote:The world is going to pass you by like a motherfucker.
That's the question... Riot, I think your answer's pretty good.DAVE101 wrote:If you ditch the deadbeats of your college town, move somewhere new, avoid your coworkers (where most of your time is spent), how does one have any friends? How do you meet new people? Especially when everyone but me is a deadbeat?
Reaping benefits from life and words requires investing one's attention, imo. But feel free to ignore me. XDPokebis wrote:This thread it tl;dr.
It isn't too hard. Get out there and find groups that enjoy your hobbies. Indy, for example, does ultimate frisbee pickup games. Start with small circles and grow from there. I keep close with the majority of my college friends. There's only a few that sort of faded away into the mists of time. I want to hug Riot to death.DAVE101 wrote:If you ditch the deadbeats of your college town, move somewhere new, avoid your coworkers (where most of your time is spent), how does one have any friends? How do you meet new people? Especially when everyone but me is a deadbeat?![]()
A degree may not be that useful in terms of skill, but good luck getting an interview at most companies without one. You can think of it like minimum stakes to play the game, but the skills you have are what make you get dat $$$. Get an internship or shadow someone that's doing what you want to do. You'll learn more in a week than in an entire semester.Anyone else want to comment on this? How applicable was your education? Do you think it could have been more applicable? If so, do you regret not focusing on learning more applicable skills/knowledge when you were in school?
Yes, I do. People spend tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of dollars, and commit many years (including the time it takes to work off loans) taking classes they hate just to get a piece of paper. A large majority of people don't even work in the field they major in. So do yourself a favor, and make those 4 (or 5 or 6?) years the best ones you possibly can. Don't worry about grades or graduating or any of that BS. Even if you get the kind of job that requires a specific degree, your employer probably won't care about your GPA or how many victory laps you took in college.mawx wrote:Anyone else want to comment on this? How applicable was your education? Do you think it could have been more applicable? If so, do you regret not focusing on learning more applicable skills/knowledge when you were in school?
I edited your post because I assume employers check this sort of thing on public forums. I'm proper middle class, I think.Merk wrote:But yeah everything else you said was tru fax. Chad had an abysmal 2.3 GPA in college and now he's making some money a year! GPA is just a number that won't matter anymore a few years after you graduate. Experience and being able to fake that you know what you're doing in an interview (again, look at Chad) will get you a job.
I say that after you get fired from someplace because they didn't like you then you have free reign to say whatever you want about your former employer. They have every right to say shit about you if a future prospective employer calls and I you every right to say shit about them to prospective employees. I never signed an NDA and I'm pretty sure my non-compete clause is no longer in effect given that they terminated me.Merk, I found the specifics of your job quite interesting. But is it okay for you to be so candid about your former employer on a public forum? eh, I tend to be a bit paranoid about these kinds of things.
You're giving in. We're you the one that paraded against hiding employee salaries because all they do is hide the fact that employers shamelessly play favoritism and screw people out of competitive salaries?I edited your post because I assume employers check this sort of thing on public forums. I'm proper middle class, I think.
Anyway my GPA was 2.573 (never noticed that.) No employer has ever asked during an interview.
Let me rephrase: There's no rush to graduate, I personally WANT to take a victory lap or two, I won't accrue much additional debt, which is the only negative I could foresee.Merk wrote:...don't be a General Studies major. Trust me you can change your major the start of your junior year and still graduate in a reasonable amount of time.
If you had a non-compete, it's almost guaranteed that there was a fairly substantial non-disclosure provision somewhere in the same contract. Also, it's quite unlikely that the non-compete was terminated due to them firing you. They usually survive that. While that seems quite one-sided to me, they're usually written that way. Whether it would hold up in court or not is another matter...how much money do you have for lawyers?Merk wrote:I never signed an NDA and I'm pretty sure my non-compete clause is no longer in effect given that they terminated me.
You're right, my mistake! Again, if you act like you know what you're talking about people might just believe you. In any event this is all moot because I've never posted anything libelous on here about my former company and the NDA (assuming it would hold up in court) has been lifted by now. They would have to make a case that I've done harm to the company and that I've said something that wasn't true. I don't think they would have a grounds for anything if, "This fat guy who posted on a very niche website with little traffic disclosed what he did during the typical workday and that we use the ITMS Kaseya." was their case. Thank God the burden of proof is on the accuser, am I right?!?!MonMotha wrote:If you had a non-compete, it's almost guaranteed that there was a fairly substantial non-disclosure provision somewhere in the same contract. Also, it's quite unlikely that the non-compete was terminated due to them firing you. They usually survive that. While that seems quite one-sided to me, they're usually written that way. Whether it would hold up in court or not is another matter...how much money do you have for lawyers?Merk wrote:I never signed an NDA and I'm pretty sure my non-compete clause is no longer in effect given that they terminated me.
Those people probably would have lost their jobs anyway. A lot of states have at-will employment so a company can fire you virtually for any reason (ie "You just don't fit in!") or no reason at all. Wrongful termination is so incredibly hard to prove (not to mention easy to cover up) that that is almost never an option.Fluffyumpkins wrote:Well sure, but that doesn't change the company policy. Maybe outside of a publicly searchable message board...
Honestly, I don't even like using my name in these threads. There have been too many stories about people that had to mouth off on the internet and lost everything because of it. Just not smart.