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Old 06-29-2002, 03:17 AM   #1
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My degree


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Chris Phillips BEng - Computer Systems Engineering.

kickass!!
 
Old 06-29-2002, 05:54 AM   #2
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i am a undergraduate student
 
Old 06-29-2002, 07:55 AM   #3
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Re: My degree

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kickass!!
Congraturation! Was it Second Upper? So how you gonna celebrate? What's your plan for your endevour? Looking for job or idling around in LQ for the time being?

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Old 06-29-2002, 08:57 AM   #4
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Well Congratulations Kewpie!

Nearly 4000 posts, a degree, goodness Kewp you're becoming downright over-qualified!

Cheers,

Finegan

P.S. Could someone from the UK explain to a dumb Yank what 2:1 means?
 
Old 06-29-2002, 09:55 AM   #5
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hehe sorry yank....

the order goes- 1, 2:1, 2:2, 3, pass, fail

1-3 is with honours, then just a non-honours pass, then well... fail

i keep forgtetting i'm acutally

Chris Phillips BEng hons

even longer! now.. working in blockbuster and getting mosre sick of it. sending cv's to generally big companies around the area, and applying for jobs which i'm either a) too good for (windows help desks) or b) vastly under experienced (AIX administrator with 5 years experience) doesn't seem to be too much in the middle there, ahhh well starting at the bottom is still a start.
 
Old 06-29-2002, 01:24 PM   #6
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congrats...
but do you (like me) ever get the feeling that the certificate somehow lends less and less weight these days?
 
Old 06-29-2002, 05:13 PM   #7
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well you need one really but i also don't really think it counts for too much. especially in the area ai want to work, all tehy care about is experience and skills. which makes much more sense than a degree, which really is not much more than a proof of the ability o understand hard things. i've learnt NOTHING **useful** in my degree. still chuffed about my grade tho.
 
Old 06-29-2002, 06:05 PM   #8
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acid, that's not very humble of you......but I like your style, heh! Once again, all the best!
 
Old 06-30-2002, 05:11 PM   #9
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humble? don't follow, that's just facts. i never said i know anything useful outside of university either!
 
Old 06-30-2002, 08:30 PM   #10
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Thought about it..............

getting my BSME that is. But can't afford the pay cut to start as a junior engineer. Guess that I am condemned to be a grease monkey for the rest of my life.
 
Old 07-01-2002, 06:46 AM   #11
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sigh... almost the same situation here man.
 
Old 07-01-2002, 07:24 AM   #12
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well i'm currently on just about £100 a week part time, which i certainly can't survive on, so a base salary of £15000 ($22k) would be heaven.
 
Old 07-01-2002, 07:32 AM   #13
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Well now that we're griping about employement:

About a month or two ago, three friends and I applied for a job. The job was at our local university's computer operations department, OIT. Each of the colleges have their own computing services, as does the residence halls, so OIT's basic job was to provide service to them, and then run 4 labs that were basically for E-mail and freshman who had yet to get access to the Biochemistry lab, or CS labs, or ECE labs, yadyadya. The job was to babysit the NOC at nights, farm out anything fun and even marginally difficult, and paid, if compensation is to give an idea of responsibility and desired knowledge: about $13 an hour, or less than 26k a year.

One of my friends was an honours graduate of Gergia Tech's Computer Science Department, wrote the visual recognition software for a project called beer-bot (guess what that did?), wrote a shell, and had dropped out halfway through grad-school.

Another was a drop-out of undergrad, about 3 semesters from done, and had been working as a tier 1 support tech for a web hosting company that did all of their work on *BSD machines for about 2 years. He was actually going to take a paycut, he just hated having to sign out to pee.

The last joker had been the BOFH for a small local hardware support and smalltime middleware solutions provider for about half a year and was also about 1 semester from done, but he's got to stretch it to 3 because he's broke.

Then of course me, small time freelance geek who just admins the colo'ed machines of friends. The BA in English doesn't go down to well, I didn't even get an interview.

None of the other three got the job though... which they almost didn't hire for as they didn't find anyone that they thought had enough experience...

Why couldn't I have decided to become a geek 2 and 1/2 years ago?

Cheers,

Finegan
 
Old 07-01-2002, 07:40 AM   #14
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yeah, sounds a fair bit like the helpdesk at my old (!!!!!!!) university, where the people spend all day just continually resetting passwords. They try their best to not emply people without a computer based degree and pay absolutely nothing in return. needless to say they never get suitable applicants.
 
Old 07-01-2002, 11:29 AM   #15
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i always wonder... is the trade off always between what you would want to do and the money in it... ???

have yet to meet someone who has both worked out nicely...
 
  


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