No doubt the outrageous, monumental stupidity Marines have to deal with on a daily basis ^^
So...what y'all do for a living?
- Thread starter Rainshine
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Sad that education is not free in all countries. But just hang in there, when u get enough shit karma will save u eventually. Just keep going :cool:
Agent_Mothman
Space Marshal
Props. My wife is an RN, formerly on a cardiac telemetry floor. She's the one that talked me into quitting the Extermination business, and becoming an LPN. Wish I had done it years earlier.
At the time I was coming back in, the Corps wasn't taking any prior service guys. An 03 E-5 with 3 deployments, guess they felt they didn't need the experience :p
Lonestar the Kilrathi
Rear Admiral
so you went from killing to life saving? but how do you satisfy your bloodlust?
oh, videogames, got'cha
Designated Drunk
Space Marshal
Well, I really don't work directly in engineering right now - it's all IT. I'd say it's really hard to judge how good it is to work 'in the industry' - it really comes down to finding the right company to work for. That has as much to do with your own personality and the corporate culture than anything...
Agent_Mothman
Space Marshal
yeahhhhhh, video games.
In all seriousness, I never had a blood lust, killing pests was just a part of the job, not something to be enjoyed or hated.
ShadyBrady
Captain
Well you get a degree with computers, because you dig computers. Program for 9 months, working 60, 70, sometimes 80 hours a week, and you realize that the salary they are paying you sounds great until you figure out that you are actually making about $10/hour. (ninja edit - After asking the CEO of the smallish company during your interview what he expects from his programmers, because you've heard the horror stories about programmers being royally over-worked, and he says "45ish hours, maybe 50 during a release cycle crunch")
At the same time, the family insurance biz (that is profitable as hell) has an opening. You're young with nothing tying you down, so you move back to the home town, that has a significantly lower cost of living than a major city that is sort of required for tech jobs.
At the same time, the family insurance biz (that is profitable as hell) has an opening. You're young with nothing tying you down, so you move back to the home town, that has a significantly lower cost of living than a major city that is sort of required for tech jobs.
ghost53574
Space Marshal
I personally believe that you shouldn't code anything for anyone under a contract unless you are as knowledgeable as someone like Jon Skeet, unless of course you are an oversees import asking one penny on every thousand thrown away. Besides that the only saving grace I have known in believing there ever was a good career in coding for someone else as a software engineer has been as your own boss ('private consulting'), other then that I have known for a long time that software engineers are run into the ground and paid almost nothing in compensation comparably and yet the lower half of these United States wants a fifteen dollar minimum wage. Besides the obvious fact that raising a wage for all the minimum workers, like me for now, will raise food costs amoung other things by a equal factor of ten you still have the obvious fact that for whatever is the reason why people would even need a minimum wage the reason is only going to worsen the end result.
I am glad you found meaningful employment somewhere else but you don't need to cut off your dreams in computers.
I am glad you found meaningful employment somewhere else but you don't need to cut off your dreams in computers.