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[sweatercuff]

                 I'm a Skateboardsmith.

[fookya]

Starting a new job in a few weeks with a fairly large financial company doing financial advising and analysis.

[Fairy Boy]

Starting a new job in a few weeks with a fairly large financial company doing financial advising and analysis.

That's sweet, how'd you get the position and what degree(s) and experience do you have?

[Sleazy]

Starting a new job in a few weeks with a fairly large financial company doing financial advising and analysis.

nice, always good to hear about skaters that are taking care of business. i recently worked as an architect on a project for this trading software: http://activetrader.schwab.com/trading-tools/software-trading/overview.aspx?src=nmk&sv1=sSXdR7Gz4&sv2=7272437948&sv3=xpxe4op6q0. culture was sick at schlob the nob but that was the austin office. not sure about outside of austin.

[Citizen on Patron]

Still fucking unemployed... I live in one of those areas. 20,000 people within 20 miles that need jobs at my "level" of experience... sucks ass. Never thought I'd be saying yay for school but YAY FOR SCHOOL! I'd love to be a novel writer but... well you know 

[lampshade]

Starting a new job in a few weeks with a fairly large financial company doing financial advising and analysis.

nice, always good to hear about skaters that are taking care of business. i recently worked as an architect on a project for this trading software: http://activetrader.schwab.com/trading-tools/software-trading/overview.aspx?src=nmk&sv1=sSXdR7Gz4&sv2=7272437948&sv3=xpxe4op6q0. culture was sick at schlob the nob but that was the austin office. not sure about outside of austin.

I was out last night with a friend who is an architect (the building kind) and she started going off about how she can't stand it when IT workers refer to themselves as architects.  I really don't care, but this post was very timely and reminded me of it. 

[sleepypancakes]

Starting a new job in a few weeks with a fairly large financial company doing financial advising and analysis.

nice, always good to hear about skaters that are taking care of business. i recently worked as an architect on a project for this trading software: http://activetrader.schwab.com/trading-tools/software-trading/overview.aspx?src=nmk&sv1=sSXdR7Gz4&sv2=7272437948&sv3=xpxe4op6q0. culture was sick at schlob the nob but that was the austin office. not sure about outside of austin.

I was out last night with a friend who is an architect (the building kind) and she started going off about how she can't stand it when IT workers refer to themselves as architects.  I really don't care, but this post was very timely and reminded me of it. 

As the building kind I can honestly say that I don't really care. But there are some in the office who are just total dicks about it.

[Clayton]

After about 2 years barely scraping by doing freelance work for a bullshit women's jewelry company, I got hired a week and a half ago as a graphic designer making ads for the app company that does iMob, Original Gangstas, etc. The company is only 4 years old, started with 3 people in an apartment, expanded to 20 people last year and are currently staffed at about 80. Right now they only make free text based MMOs but they have aspirations to become a full fledged video game company and are currently producing an iPhone strategy based medieval MMO you can play with anyone in the world over 19 languages with instant translation, (a feature that currently doesn't exist anywhere else.)

I got my BA in 09 and they're paying me more than most graphic designers with 10+ years of experience in the field make. They give me a ridiculous amount of creative control and I can come into work anytime as long as I put in a full 8 hours. I'm only on a 3-month contract right now but they usually don't hire without the intent to make someone full-time.

To top it all off, every month they have a company party with free beer and food. This party already happened after my third day of work where I found out 2 of the 3 founders of the company skate! My boss used to skate with Jose Rojo as a teenager and the CEO started in 93, first video he saw was Virtual Reality, at one point in his life could switch hardflip front nose, and the dude he is currently most psyched on is Torey Pudwill, (I gave him shit about his crazy arms/weird tricks but couldn't deny how good he is.)

So in other words, I've had a pretty fucking good couple of weeks.  

[trannies and mannies]

^That sounds like a great job.

[whitemanjazz]

where all my grocery store cashies at?

I actually just got off the phone for a grocery position. It was pretty awkward and I had to really strain to pull answers out of my ass for all their "recall a time when you..." questions.

I might have fucked up though - I listed a friend of mine who was a cashier manager at a farmer's market in Atlanta as a reference and they got the idea that I had worked there or something and started to ask me about my experiences there, I panicked and went along with it and told the lady some vague bullshit.

They're going to call me to schedule a live interview pretty soon, I've never worked retail or dealt with customers in my life. I'm just going to go in this like I've got nothing to lose I guess

Most groceries around here, at least the big ones, drug test all employees and will fire your pot failing ass. Be warned

As in, they drug test cashiers and stockboys? Fuck, I feel bad for the ones that aren't high.

How I got an internship doing DoD work without a drug test is beyond me. Seems like the trick to not getting tested is to work for a small company and/or to do research.

The dreaded "can you recall..." interview. Had to recently do this one in front of 7 people with clipboards asking shit like, "tell me a time when you failed something, then learned from your mistakes." Refinery jobs are incredibly hard to get into without a degree or knowing someone high up. Anyone working in a plant or refinery?

As far as grocery store jobs, I worked at one for about a year and a half in high school. It wasn't that bad. Pretty easy work. I didn't think stores outside of walmart drug tested, but good luck mang.

[Nosferatu]

Had my first shift in the warehouse at ikea last night. It was fine.

[themoustache]

working a summer internship at an architectural forensics firm in boston...dealing with envelope improvements, historical preservation, repairs, rehabs, renos, and occasionally contracted for new construction.  great office, incredibly low-key team, young work force, right in downtown.  hell, the first week i was there we had a huge celebration for one of the senior associates who just got engaged, and we had an open tab that i murdered in my own right.  six or so of us went up to the bar after and kept saucing, a real great lot of folks.  after years of unpaid and ungratified work, plus retail sales to scrape by before i applied to grad school, i feel like im finally going in my direction.

[Fairy Boy]

working a summer internship at an architectural forensics firm in boston...dealing with envelope improvements, historical preservation, repairs, rehabs, renos, and occasionally contracted for new construction.  great office, incredibly low-key team, young work force, right in downtown.  hell, the first week i was there we had a huge celebration for one of the senior associates who just got engaged, and we had an open tab that i murdered in my own right.  six or so of us went up to the bar after and kept saucing, a real great lot of folks.  after years of unpaid and ungratified work, plus retail sales to scrape by before i applied to grad school, i feel like im finally going in my direction.

Congrats, that sounds sweet. Do you have a degree in architecture/civil engineering or something similar?

Got a call today about an internship for a small healthcare analytics company...anyone know much VBA/SQL?

[themoustache]

working a summer internship at an architectural forensics firm in boston...dealing with envelope improvements, historical preservation, repairs, rehabs, renos, and occasionally contracted for new construction.  great office, incredibly low-key team, young work force, right in downtown.  hell, the first week i was there we had a huge celebration for one of the senior associates who just got engaged, and we had an open tab that i murdered in my own right.  six or so of us went up to the bar after and kept saucing, a real great lot of folks.  after years of unpaid and ungratified work, plus retail sales to scrape by before i applied to grad school, i feel like im finally going in my direction.

Congrats, that sounds sweet. Do you have a degree in architecture/civil engineering or something similar?

Got a call today about an internship for a small healthcare analytics company...anyone know much VBA/SQL?

thanks bud.  im a year into 3 for my masters of architecture right now...doubled in architectural studies and environmental studies for my BA.  honestly, FUCK the educational system.  its crazy how disenchanted the cirriculum is with reality, and the professors are with the profession.  its seriously nuts.  getting on-hands professional exposure in the proper environment is worth TROVES over any education the system feels like compartmentalizing and handing on down to you.  dont get me wrong, the importance of school cant be underscored enough, but its fucking crazy how out of touch my grad program is with reality.

at least reality as i see it.  anyways, cant speak on VBA or SQL, but congrats on the call and best of luck!  i have a feeling grim or someone else might have some advice to offer...

[Fairy Boy]

working a summer internship at an architectural forensics firm in boston...dealing with envelope improvements, historical preservation, repairs, rehabs, renos, and occasionally contracted for new construction.  great office, incredibly low-key team, young work force, right in downtown.  hell, the first week i was there we had a huge celebration for one of the senior associates who just got engaged, and we had an open tab that i murdered in my own right.  six or so of us went up to the bar after and kept saucing, a real great lot of folks.  after years of unpaid and ungratified work, plus retail sales to scrape by before i applied to grad school, i feel like im finally going in my direction.

Congrats, that sounds sweet. Do you have a degree in architecture/civil engineering or something similar?

Got a call today about an internship for a small healthcare analytics company...anyone know much VBA/SQL?

thanks bud.  im a year into 3 for my masters of architecture right now...doubled in architectural studies and environmental studies for my BA.  honestly, FUCK the educational system.  its crazy how disenchanted the cirriculum is with reality, and the professors are with the profession.  its seriously nuts.  getting on-hands professional exposure in the proper environment is worth TROVES over any education the system feels like compartmentalizing and handing on down to you.  dont get me wrong, the importance of school cant be underscored enough, but its fucking crazy how out of touch my grad program is with reality.

at least reality as i see it.  anyways, cant speak on VBA or SQL, but congrats on the call and best of luck!  i have a feeling grim or someone else might have some advice to offer...

I feel you on the education system, shit is weak. Learned loads more in the last 6 weeks at my internship than in 4 years of college.

How are you feeling about the industry in general? I know with the housing bubble architecture took a big hit, but it should be picking back up between now and when you get your masters, right?

[rudolph]

I sell real estate for a living, its a pretty chill job and pays great.  Any one looking to move to atlanta?
www.buckheadatlantahomesearch.com

[Sleazy]

Starting a new job in a few weeks with a fairly large financial company doing financial advising and analysis.

nice, always good to hear about skaters that are taking care of business. i recently worked as an architect on a project for this trading software: http://activetrader.schwab.com/trading-tools/software-trading/overview.aspx?src=nmk&sv1=sSXdR7Gz4&sv2=7272437948&sv3=xpxe4op6q0. culture was sick at schlob the nob but that was the austin office. not sure about outside of austin.

I was out last night with a friend who is an architect (the building kind) and she started going off about how she can't stand it when IT workers refer to themselves as architects.?  I really don't care, but this post was very timely and reminded me of it.? 

As the building kind I can honestly say that I don't really care. But there are some in the office who are just total dicks about it.

dicks to who? haha, i don't even get how that would work. i'd love to have an awkward moment with a pissed off architect at some point to see how that works.

[fookya]

Starting a new job in a few weeks with a fairly large financial company doing financial advising and analysis.

That's sweet, how'd you get the position and what degree(s) and experience do you have?

I worked for at&t for a while in sales, and I have an associates in business admin, working on a bachelors in finance. I applied for the position online and met with the managers of the firm and they thought I would be a good fit for the position, and it all kind of spiraled from there. I'm stoked.

[sleepypancakes]

working a summer internship at an architectural forensics firm in boston...dealing with envelope improvements, historical preservation, repairs, rehabs, renos, and occasionally contracted for new construction.  great office, incredibly low-key team, young work force, right in downtown.  hell, the first week i was there we had a huge celebration for one of the senior associates who just got engaged, and we had an open tab that i murdered in my own right.  six or so of us went up to the bar after and kept saucing, a real great lot of folks.  after years of unpaid and ungratified work, plus retail sales to scrape by before i applied to grad school, i feel like im finally going in my direction.

Congrats, that sounds sweet. Do you have a degree in architecture/civil engineering or something similar?

Got a call today about an internship for a small healthcare analytics company...anyone know much VBA/SQL?

thanks bud.  im a year into 3 for my masters of architecture right now...doubled in architectural studies and environmental studies for my BA.  honestly, FUCK the educational system.  its crazy how disenchanted the cirriculum is with reality, and the professors are with the profession.  its seriously nuts.  getting on-hands professional exposure in the proper environment is worth TROVES over any education the system feels like compartmentalizing and handing on down to you.  dont get me wrong, the importance of school cant be underscored enough, but its fucking crazy how out of touch my grad program is with reality.

at least reality as i see it.  anyways, cant speak on VBA or SQL, but congrats on the call and best of luck!  i have a feeling grim or someone else might have some advice to offer...

Mine was a pain as well. Same degree. Sans the environmental studies. Mine was just a BA in Arch. My M.Arch was a bitch though. Where you getting it through?

[Smell Good]

I've got two more weeks at FedEx thank god. I'm over that shit man. I'm likely to quit my grocery store thing too before school starts. They pull some weird shit on you at that place. You can't just change someone's schedule last second and expect them to come in to work. I checked my schedule like 4 times yesterday - says I'm off today and I get a call a few minutes ago saying that I was scheduled for today. Fuck them, I'm not coming in.

[Fairy Boy]

Where's my software guys at? Just got an offer today from Barracuda to be a Software Developer in Test/QA for their backup product...it sounds really boring, but I liked answering programming questions in the interview and they make it sound like I'll stay challenged and have a variety of tasks, which is cool.  I feel like I should be really excited but I'm the opposite. Any advice from industry heads?

[pica]

Had my first shift in the warehouse at ikea last night. It was fine.

i worked at ikea for 3 years. it's a good company they don't pay too much but you get great discounts on the furniture (up to 75% if you know how to do it, and your colleges will soon show you how). use that while you can, you'll never get furniture that cheap again.
it was all good, all the people working there were nice, we had free food and drinks for the employees all day long, a gym and even a free solarium (never used it).
if you have any swedish speaking collegues (preferable female) always remind them: "svenska flickor knullar bra"

[GadNZ]

I have a pretty good gig here in South Korea as an ''English Teacher''. Where I work it's a '1 week fun English camp' that happens all year round. We mainly just play games with the kids and make it as fun as possible and try teach them some English words/phrases here and there.

Although the Korean work environment can drive you crazy sometimes I'm still glad I came here.

Last Sunday I got paid overtime to go on a field trip with some kids which was a yacht cruise/science museum. 

[brycickle]

I have a couple friends over there doing that right now too.

[Sleazy]

working a summer internship at an architectural forensics firm in boston...dealing with envelope improvements, historical preservation, repairs, rehabs, renos, and occasionally contracted for new construction.?  great office, incredibly low-key team, young work force, right in downtown.?  hell, the first week i was there we had a huge celebration for one of the senior associates who just got engaged, and we had an open tab that i murdered in my own right.?  six or so of us went up to the bar after and kept saucing, a real great lot of folks.?  after years of unpaid and ungratified work, plus retail sales to scrape by before i applied to grad school, i feel like im finally going in my direction.

Congrats, that sounds sweet. Do you have a degree in architecture/civil engineering or something similar?

Got a call today about an internship for a small healthcare analytics company...anyone know much VBA/SQL?

sorry for late reply but i've done SQL for 12 years and managed a VBA (6.0) project back in 2000. hit me up if you need any help.

[clamy]

I want a job that starts early in the morning so I have time in the afternoon to skate. Thinking of applying at the Post Office until I go back to school.

[Fairy Boy]

working a summer internship at an architectural forensics firm in boston...dealing with envelope improvements, historical preservation, repairs, rehabs, renos, and occasionally contracted for new construction.?  great office, incredibly low-key team, young work force, right in downtown.?  hell, the first week i was there we had a huge celebration for one of the senior associates who just got engaged, and we had an open tab that i murdered in my own right.?  six or so of us went up to the bar after and kept saucing, a real great lot of folks.?  after years of unpaid and ungratified work, plus retail sales to scrape by before i applied to grad school, i feel like im finally going in my direction.

Congrats, that sounds sweet. Do you have a degree in architecture/civil engineering or something similar?

Got a call today about an internship for a small healthcare analytics company...anyone know much VBA/SQL?

sorry for late reply but i've done SQL for 12 years and managed a VBA (6.0) project back in 2000. hit me up if you need any help.

I didn't get that internship, but just accepted a full-time offer to do software testing and development. They had me read up on SQL/PHP before the interview to see how quickly i can pick shit up, I think that's how I got the job because they admitted I'm the least software-experienced guy they've ever hired.

I'm worried i might hate software testing, but it's good pay with a good company in a great city. About to quadruple office space, have a cafeteria/game room/gym in the basement, should be fun. I'll technically be a 'QA Developer in Test' on an enterprise backup product. Stoked to have a job and double my hourly wage.

Sleazy, I saw in the 'Gooks of Hazard' thread that you have a math degree and do predictive analytics, as well as your other posts in here. I've also got a math degree and am looking for a similar career path to yours, care to give some insight into how you got started and developed to where you are now? To the rest of the thread, we can make it a PM conversation if nobody else gives a shit.