From having been on the market recently, it sure seems to me like jobs are being created like crazy. I have never had so many people trying to get me to accept a job somewhere. Mostly spamming recruiters who don't know who I am, but still, the shear volume is telling.

@scottalanmiller said:

Well that's something. Is it a good incentive? What a weird thing to offer, as if getting a master's helps them in any way.

Fairly good. I've argued that point in the past... but working for/with friends has its perks.

@Aaron-Studer That looks like a good read. This information could also work for coworkers and customers.

Knowing how they tick is the trick to "working" with managers, coworkers and your customers.

I think I will check this out to see if it can help me understand some of my clients better.

LinkedIn is good for finding people near you with qualifications who might not be actively looking, but would be open to a new opportunity if it fell in their lap.

By 1998 it was a common term to me. I think it was the ramp up to the Y2K "crisis" that took IT from a backwater concept to major headlines and from an obscure term to the common lexicon. I'd guess that 1996 was the big transition year, that was the year that Microsoft made their first serious business class OS and when the perception of technology in the workplace really started to change. It's when the idea of the LAN solidified. Before then the idea of a LAN was as "one of many" possibly approaches to the office computing environment. Before Windows NT 4 the idea of a single large server with everyone working from terminals was still a very real concept (and not like thin computing today - no networks at all.)

By 1996 it was clear that every business would eventually have a network and that networking was going to be a part of normal computing. Before then, people were not so sure.

Not bad, but things like 3 and 4 aren't really resume items. Those are more either cover letter and/or interview tips.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Nic said:

Valve, because of their self-organizing teams and peer review system.

Facebook and Amazon self organize their teams too.

Good - I'm glad to see other companies following their lead.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

lol 40+ jobs - how long do you have to work a job for you to include it?

Several months at least, for me. Include things that are important, leave off ones that are not. I wish that I could include everything, jobs with the state and federal governments, an Indian nation, military contractor, large chemical plant, non-profits in DC, and others that are pretty interesting and help to round me out are not included. But I have to draw the line somewhere.

Yeah, well I haven't had THAT many jobs...

My first computer experience was in in 1976-77.
My first 'home computer' was in 1985... And I've been working on / with them since.

I've seen them evolve over the years,.. and after 29 years of them - have just about reach my EOL point.... And I still have another 20 years till retirement. .. Just have to go one day at a time....

@StrongBad said:

@thanksaj said:

Got an email back! Setting up an interview for most likely Friday! Super excited!

Congrats and good luck.

Thanks!

@PSX_Defector said:

@thanksaj said:

Ok, scheduled for 10AM and 12:15PM on Saturday, Dec 27. 😄

Don't puss out like the last one. 🙂

I never actually scheduled anything for the last one. Now I have a deadline with something in the books. Totally different.

Thanks - I'm already taking three other classes over winter, we'll see if I actually have time to audit this one as well.

@Carnival-Boy said:

Instead of saying, "I can't believe that guy just cut me off! What a jerk!" they go with, "That guy just cut me off. I'm going to slow down a bit so there's no accident here. And I'm going to listen to my favorite song to get inspired.*

WTF? I'm trying to picture Donald Trump listening to Celine Dion.

That article sounds like the fantasy image of powerful people as created by a self-help guru who describes himself as an "Inspiration Designer". A large proportion of powerful people are psychopaths, crooks and scumbags. In many cases all three.

Sorry. As you may be able to tell, I'm not a great believer in "The American Dream".

I didn't see that part of the article. Yeah, that I don't think I'll agree with.

I could be wrong, the market consensus does not agree with me. Nearly everyone says that it is a booming field and will be huge. But I've seen that behaviour before and that is what people said about teaching, nursing and nearly every other field that rapidly becomes over saturated and all of the people working in that field see incomes plummet and people entering the field end up without a way to get a job because experienced people already have them all.

The problem here is that security is one of those jobs that sounds cool to teachers, parents and kids. Tell a kid that being a "system admin" is cool and they won't have a clue why. Tell them that they will be on a "security team" and it sounds neat to the layman. Anything that normal people know about in IT.... can only be so high up in the field.

One tip I would pass along for you is that don't get into IT if you think you'll be the hero. While we generally are the heros in any given business, as we keep all the stuff they rely on for doing their job going, we are almost never treated accordingly. IT is the field you get into because you love technology and you like doing a job right. You also like that there is no ceiling on what you can learn, and that the field is so diversified, you can go practically anywhere and everywhere. But you're not the hero. People treat you fair at best, most of the time. People will blame you for every problem imaginable under the sun. You will beg bosses and managers for new equipment because it's not a need, it's a desperation, and still get denied. Then, something will break and you'll be blamed. You will get woken up at 2AM by an alert and you have to go into work because everyone else who goes in at normal times relies on you having that issue resolved in 5 hours for when they get there.

You'll learn a lot, and IT is even more about understanding business needs than most people realize. If you want in on the game, then welcome aboard!

Haven't heard anything, no. Not upset about it either.

@art_of_shred said:

Dilbert is a great comic, but if all I had was the show I would never have been a fan. It mostly annoys me. And the voices and attitudes are way better in my head than the ones they picked for the show. Terrible voice-casting.

That's how I felt. I love the strip, hate the show. I love the books too, at least the first two (Principle and Future) which are really core business books. The later books lacked focus.

@milnesy said:

@scottalanmiller The Million Dollar question is... did they realize it? Or was it only when you called them (if you called them) out on it...

NO way to call them out on it, they were so clueless that they couldn't tell when people knew things and when they didn't.

Thanks for the link.