Hows your job hunt going Jow Forums?

Been there, done that, and they always respond that yes, they mean industry experience.

Tfw definitely going to be fired but no idea when so you can't get a new job just yet

>not just giving your 2 weeks and getting a better one
don't bend over backwards for you company because they definitely won't exhibit the same loyalty towards you

What'd you do boy?

Start lining up those interviews now, unless you want to be in the jobless void when you get fired.

I fix computers for a living now.
i earn $400-600 USD which is way better than the $120 USD per month minimum wage.

Well he is a slippy one. After his fake death it's hard to track the fella.

This.

My friend who got hired two years ago made it into a position where he can now hire who he wants on his team and he said he'd get me in. It's really nepotism but he's pretty nice to be doing this for me considering I only met him in one class during my final semester

After 'murrica embargo ZTE, I'm left in a limbo, so I guess still looking for a better place then

Getting a job easily is basically nepotism, I say take your chances

i love my job. my workplace environment is amazing, the pay is easily twice what i've made in the past and the work itself is challenging without being overwhelming.

and FREE PARKING.

Why would I do something so stupid when I can stay at home and get paid $900+ a month to browse Jow Forums and watch anime?

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I had to give up and drive Uber, but today one of my friends tried to kill himself so I had to drive to see him in the hospital, missing the pre-Labor Day big surge night.

Worked somewhere that's going out of business

Because then you wouldn't be depressed

>being forced to do something you don't want to do with people you don't want to be with will cure depression
You OK, wagie?

I sit 8 hours 5 days a week writing silly things in php and javascript I used to feel i was wasting my life when I was jobless and was playing vidya and fapping all day to hentai now i feel like i am wasting my life in a boring way

Or you could get a job you like, with people you enjoy being with.

Kind of trapped in an electrical/mech career path at about $65k, tried breaking out into software dev - I'm too old & don't have a degree so I can't.
I'm over 40 don't know if its really worth it at this point to go back to school.

Hopefully this is a decent place to get some feedback on my plan from people with actual jobs.
I was a drug addict from 17 to like 22, 23. Clean for almost 3 years now. I went back to community college for a "computer programming" associates, hopefully graduating soon.
A huge new casino opened down the road from me and they made a new program with the school, a 1 year certificate, called data analytics.
I'm planning to go back for an additional year after my associates and get the data analytics certificate and a business certificate.
I also have low level ms certifications: Microsoft office specialist master, quickbooks, windows desktop os, windows server os, networking, network security.
I know C++, Java, Python, C#, SQL.
I'm hoping to get a job at that casino after I finish in school(I'll be 26).
Is this a good plan? I could rent a place for like $500 a month here, I don't need much money if I can get a job HERE.
If I don't make it into the casino well I'll go from there.

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>$900/mo
>get a job
>make that in a few days

Succeeded two years ago. Working at a top notch cancer factory, shifts are sometimes chill, sometimes not. Every single person working here has some kind of defect. I hate my fucking life but the pay is so good for how little effort it takes.

This is my worst nightmare. I couldn't handle having a job where every single second is this eternal agonizing hell that consists of nothing but wishing for it to end.
I'm almost 30 now and I have never met a single person that makes anywhere near that much money. Most people make like 1500-2000 a month.

How would you expect someone to go from neet to $900/week job?

I feel like getting a job is going to be impossible. I hate nearly every person and people in general, I am not normal at all, no social media, no friends or family, no social skills, misogynist, racist, probably spout a meme or two irl without noticing it after using Jow Forums for like 12 years straight.

I feel that all that would result from me getting a job doing something I enjoy would be the death of my ability to enjoy doing that thing. After that it would be no different than getting a job doing anything else. There are also no people I enjoy being with.

Not that guy, by the way.

Where the fuck do you live? I don't even live in a major city and a bring home 10k/mo.

Upstate new york. No one makes money like that, that shits a fucking pipe dream for people with parents who supported them through a nice 4 year university.

It's called work. Something that anyone who has so little respect for themselves that they are willing to be a NEET probably has no concept of.

>What
>In
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I do WebDev in Georgia. I don't know if Upstate new york is like kentucky, but that pay is pants on head retarded. Hell, I didn't even graduate college.

What country

Well there certainly aren't any technology jobs here. Most well paying job outside of the medicaid doctors is probably the police.
I'm not gonna stay here probably, I've left a few times, but I'm just saying I still keep in touch with a bunch of people from high school and no one makes anywhere near that much money. My one friend is a CO at a prison in PA bringing home a little over 2k a month and he is the richest person I know atm.

>Why is there a lot of pajeets in infosec/cyber security?
The Indian education system prioritizes memorization.
Most tech certs in general are not skill based, so all you need to do is memorize the answer key (they are cheap everywhere online) and your in.

Nobody actually knows what they do so they can get away with it.
It's even worse when the higher ups don't even know what they are doing.

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>a job doing something I enjoy would be the death of my ability to enjoy doing that thing
That's exactly what happens.

t. wagecuck

How good of a programmer do I need to be to apply for a junior position somewhere? Should I just apply even though I might be too much of a brainlet?

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If you can do 2+2 you should be able to get a job. If you're stupid, you'll be gone in a few months.m . If you're not stupid, you'll learn as you go and start to git gud.

BIG FUKN ANIME TIDDIES

Starting my new job on June 1st. 37k -> 50k EUR is pretty comfy.

Sweden :^)

I'll give it a shot then. If I get the job I'll be working with C# and .net. Now the thing that's making me worried is that I don't have a great grasp of OOP. I've only done small personal projects and it's never made sense for me to use things like polymorphism and inheritance. So I never really learned how to implement and use them well.

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If you've worked for long enough you should have some picked up some knowledge that would be valuable in a consulting capacity. It's time to specialise and use the experience you've gained to sell your expertise out to companies.

Going back to school to work with younglings is a bad idea.

If I get the basic 3 (A+ Network+ Security+) how likely am I to land a low level IT job at a hospital (small one) or some place similar? (Small office kinda place)

I'm in upstate New York making 120k as a software engineer fool

I can do 2+2. I also have a degree and a portfolio of programming projects. Nobody will hire me. I have spent the fucking majority of my adult life trying to get a job and nobody will hire me.

You LIE, user.

Where the hell do you live? Apply out of state or something then. There's tons of entry level jobs.
t. Guy that got entry level software engineer job before graduating with 0 projects

What kind of work do you do, and is it only the pay you're unsatisfied with?

Anybself self taught employed software engineers? At 25 I don't know if I want to finish my bachelors, but I'd rather die than keep doing the CAD shit I'm doing now.

65k isn't bad though it's still more than the average household income. So if you have a wife bringing home money you're good.

Australia. Been trying to get a job in New Zealand recently because the government here keeps demonizing me as a 'dole bludger' while fucking up the tech industry and going out of their way to be unhelpful, so fuck them.

Oh i see. Honestly you could apply to places in the US if you get really desperate. You'd probably get something easy.

It's less about what you know and more about how you sell yourself, at least when it comes to getting your foot in the door. I'm good looking and ooze charisma. I can't get people not to hire me, but I promise you, if you exude confidence, and have a smidge of demonstrable skills, you'll get a job.

The US isn't going to allow any whites to immigrate.

Why? I got plenty of money from my grandparents plus monthly welfare, living as a NEET is all I want.

OOP is a tricky beast. Honestly, someone with a ton of theory education isn't even going to be worth a shit when they first get into it. Too many people write OO code as a collection of patterns that they found in a book. You've really got to get a feel for how abstract your classes need to be, or you just end up writing Java style OO with a bunch of shit that extends this and implements that but you're in the ninth circle of OO hell before you write the first line of code that actually performs a function.

US is fine with Australians and kiwis though

I quit my job last week because I wasn't going anywhere and I can't seem to make the right choices while employed. I'm taking the next two weeks to clear my head and figure out what I want to do.

In the meantime I may get my compTIA project+ certificate and familiarize myself with pm tools. The biggest hurdle for me is not placing limitations on myself and giving myself undeserved anxiety (like telling myself it's harder to find a job the longer you go without one, which is kind of bullshit if you're not wasting your time)

I kind of like the challenge.

Well I'm socially awkward, so that's out. It's irrelevant anyway, because the vast majority of the time I don't even get a phone interview. I'm lucky if recruiter/HR dipshits contact me back to clarify that no, I don't have any industry experience.

Have I mentioned that most entry level positions around here require years of experience in the industry? Because they do. I've had this repeatedly confirmed.

I work in a fairly large game studio. Co-workers can be cringey as fuck, but other than that i like it a lot. Pay is middle of the road but It's a nice environment

Sounds like a plan. Godspeed user

Electronics & millwright work, I build machines, put in sensors, wire them, plc's blah blah blah, but can also wrench so I'm somewhere between an engineer & a greasemonkey - but more practical experience than an engineer & way more comprehension than a run of the mill wrencher.

As much as I like machining parts & wiring, designing & programming my own crap I would still rather to go to an office, sit in a chair, beep boop & go to clockburning meetings while drinking coffee all day.
I'm getting older & burnt on working with the dunderheads in manufacturing.
Being the smartest guy in the room all the time blows dead dog dicks.

Yes, 3-5 years experience is ubiquitous & also a meme, disregard it - use github commits etc as experience if pressed for it.
Also ask for a 'Junior Dev' position, Debbie in HR has relegated 'Entry Level' to meaning 'free coffee fetcher/janitor'

The meme is real here. Every time it comes up, I direct them to my git stuff, they clarify they want actual industry experience, and into the trash I go. Also I apply for any dev position advertised as 'junior', 'entry level', 'graduate', or ones that just don't have experience reqs that I think I can do. Except PHP jobs. Gotta have *some* standards.

I'm in monticello and like I said all of my friends who are in their late 20s make absolutely no where near that much money.

Sounds pretty great 2bquitedesu. I'm just a student in a field unrelated to software/IT/CS but I get the impression there are tons of dumbasses working in those fields too.

Get a job in industry. Some of the most solitary work besides shouting or following commands. I work as a machinist and I rarely have to fuck with anyone. Probably 3 conversations on a good day.

Well yeah that's after a lot of years experience. People in their 20s in the field make 60-80k a year

That field doesn't exist here outside of very few positions maybe managing computers for a school or bank.
My original post was just a general statement that no one I know makes money like that.

>complains about not having a job
>refuses to entertain huge class of jobs

Nothing wrong with PHP, faggot. If you can't write good code in PHP, then you're a shit developer. You're falling for a hipster meme.

Where are you upstate? There's lots of jobs in Albany, some stuff in the glens falls area, (central NY) Syracuse, Utica, Rome

I'm in sullivan county.
I'll probably be moving to wherever I can live the best once I get on my feet and can do so.