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Johny Cee
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Fuck that, I have an art degree. I'll decorate a fucking cake. Where can I sign up? Does it pay more than unemployment?
Unfortunately, right now we're looking in Philly, NYC, Chicago and Montreal, and you have to already be in the field (3-5 years experience). Besides, I would have to resist the urge to prank you. It sucks being Comptroller without any direct minions to do my dirty work.
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Chimpy
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Speaking of Austin, we were rated as the best city to get a job in, or at least, the highest jobs available rate.
So, if anyone wants to be a contractor that pays less than unemployment here (I know, right) or work in the service industry, Austin is THE place for you.
Bioware:Austin has like 30 open jobs posted on the ArsTechnica job board. Sorting by city there is also an Android UI engineer at some place called "Mutual Mobile".
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schild
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Heh.
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Salamok
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Point me to the government job posting.
We filled it 3 months ago, all state jobs are listed on TWC, the hardest part is filling out the 10 page state application. Look for Web Administrator, Programmer and Systems Analyst positions. edit: The austin php meetup board usually has many postings as well. The Expression Engine/Codeignitor group hasn't been around nearly as long but some fun folks there too.
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« Last Edit: January 10, 2012, 06:28:59 PM by Salamok »
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schild
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I am not a coder, unfortunately. I gave that up because I hated my fellow students. They were awful.
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Salamok
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I have interviewed for several Web Administrator positions where all they wanted was a grammar/format nazi to paste content into a CMS that was already in place. State Systems Analysts seem to vary quite a bit and range from implementing off the shelf software, writing specs and or just documenting shit. Most stuff firmly reporting to IT has the unspoken mission statement of "be sure and throw up enough red tape to make sure nothing changes ever", so for example if you are a project manager your unspoken mandate is to write a spec in a way to make the project so complicated as to require it be outsourced if it happens to get approved anyway. Plus much of the state shit is like a decade behind the current trends and you really wouldn't have to be much of a coder to pull that off.
edit: Shit the comptrollers office is so paranoid that they don't even let their Web Administrators III's ($65k/yr and up) do server side code, prerequisites are basically CSS and HTML. Tons of good that did them since some dumb shit went ahead and parked sensitive data on an unsecured ftp site anyhow.
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« Last Edit: January 10, 2012, 07:37:10 PM by Salamok »
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schild
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Ok then. This is good to know. Would I enjoy such a position or would my coworkers be awful, lifeless people where I'd make every attempt to work from home if possible?
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Salamok
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Ok then. This is good to know. Would I enjoy such a position or would my coworkers be awful, lifeless people where I'd make every attempt to work from home if possible?
Varies, I've met some good people but shit definitely floats to the top and it can be frustrating dealing with ignorant policy and decision makers. On the one hand it can be soul sucking on the other hand I get paid to do shit that no one in their right mind would ever pay for if they actually had to foot the bill. edit: oh yeah and you leave on time every day on the nose, you take lunch every day, you never get hassled for calling in sick (accrue 8 hours a month and you never lose it), and take you vacation with no worries about a job being there when you get back. Any looming deadlines generally take a back seat to all of the above.
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« Last Edit: January 10, 2012, 07:44:49 PM by Salamok »
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Lantyssa
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State jobs are really comfortable. I miss mine, things just got completely untenable where I was, unfortunately. Regardless, if you can put up with the system it's a great way to make a living.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Minvaren
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Ah, but you get a terrific front-row seat for teh crazy where you are now.
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"There are many things of which a wise man might wish to remain ignorant." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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IainC
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We are hiring a new UI artist. Flash and Scaleform stuff mostly.
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proudft
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Flash and Scaleform you say?
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Yegolev
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lol it's like programming in the 70's except back then you could fake it for 6-12 months.
Well timeframe varies by intelligence and guile. I am trying to compensate for the fact that I've been doing AIX for 15 years (large scale corporate for 12) and it's probably second nature, so what seems like cake to me might baffle someone else. But really, if you are out of work there's no reason you can't install CentOS on a PC and run through some exercises, then make bold exaggerations on your resume about how much RedHat you can do.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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schild
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https://www.austincityjobs.org/postings/30142See here's a job posting I could do *and* bullshit if I wanted. It pays roughly double unemployment but comes with the added benefit of potentially giving presentations to executives? For $30 an hour max? I'm sorry, but is this what we've come to? Executives that will take advice from a Magic Player who reads shit on the internet and makes $30 an hour? Also, hourly jobs are ballshit.
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Ironwood
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For that price, the only presentations they should get are your unwashed ballsack.
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schild
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Agreed.
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Murgos
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Unemployment pays 30k a year?
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schild
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$28.8k to be precise.
Edit: Oh, and thanks to our wonderful governor, Rick Perry - I can suck that teat for 2 years.
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HaemishM
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Shit, that's more than I got when I was on unemployment 15 years ago. Maybe twice as much.
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Murgos
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$28.8k to be precise.
Edit: Oh, and thanks to our wonderful governor, Rick Perry - I can suck that teat for 2 years.
Hell, I worked my ass off for 30k a year for years. Enjoy it while you can. Get a PO Box and a passport and go hitch-hike across Europe working in Hostels or something, you're still young enough to get away with it.
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Johny Cee
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Shit, that's more than I got when I was on unemployment 15 years ago. Maybe twice as much.
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Viin
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https://www.austincityjobs.org/postings/30142See here's a job posting I could do *and* bullshit if I wanted. It pays roughly double unemployment but comes with the added benefit of potentially giving presentations to executives? For $30 an hour max? I'm sorry, but is this what we've come to? Executives that will take advice from a Magic Player who reads shit on the internet and makes $30 an hour? Also, hourly jobs are ballshit. Doesn't look that bad to me. It's not exactly a management position, so you would be supporting those activities not doing them all yourself. Besides, BSA is a good start to into higher-level business positions. Unemployment is a poor start to anything.
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HaemishM
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Shit, that's more than I got when I was on unemployment 15 years ago. Maybe twice as much.
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Yegolev
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I wonder how much the project managers that I deal with take in. Hopefully about $25 per hour or less.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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RhyssaFireheart
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I wonder how much the project managers that I deal with take in. Hopefully about $25 per hour or less.
Not if they get paid anything close to what the PMs here are making. Some are making some nice change.
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Yegolev
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I wonder how much the project managers that I deal with take in. Hopefully about $25 per hour or less.
Not if they get paid anything close to what the PMs here are making. Some are making some nice change. This saddens me deeply.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Sky
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If I could get 30k in unemployment for two years, I'd be unemployed for two years A LOT.
I don't make much more than that.
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Nija
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Shit, that's more than I got when I was on unemployment 15 years ago. Maybe twice as much.
It matches up with inflation perfectly in that case.
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Dtrain
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As someone who recently had a 6 month unemployment adventure in Houston (same state, different planet, although we did just recently get a Torchy's,) I have some insight to share. My big mistake: working a 1 day temp assignment to gain cache with an agency. The unnemployment office will shut your payments down unless you make a new application - which of course takes 2 to 3 weeks to start. You can try to temp your way out of unemployment, but you should only take a job with an extended contract to start with. You don't want to have to continually update your last employer. My big success: find a less desireable job with a long training period and good benefits, with some sort of clearly defined advancement potential. Slam out a few easy certs on the company dime, and either get promoted or get out before the grind sets in. About to wrap up my CCNA and execute the final step of my master plan.
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Lantyssa
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(What's a Torchy's and should I be excited about this?)
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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schild
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As someone who recently had a 6 month unemployment adventure in Houston (same state, different planet, although we did just recently get a Torchy's,) I have some insight to share. My big mistake: working a 1 day temp assignment to gain cache with an agency. The unnemployment office will shut your payments down unless you make a new application - which of course takes 2 to 3 weeks to start. You can try to temp your way out of unemployment, but you should only take a job with an extended contract to start with. You don't want to have to continually update your last employer. My big success: find a less desireable job with a long training period and good benefits, with some sort of clearly defined advancement potential. Slam out a few easy certs on the company dime, and either get promoted or get out before the grind sets in. About to wrap up my CCNA and execute the final step of my master plan. I will not do any work for a company unless I'm getting paid under the table or I immediately become a full time employee. Unemployment is too good in Texas. Torchy's is the second best taco place in Austin. The first place being Taco Deli. Now, Torchy's Tacos are better than Taco Deli's, except they are missing one thing. Doņa Sauce. The sauce at Taco Deli makes it better than ALL OTHER tacos. Anywhere. In the US. Period. Or at least Florida, Virginia, Maryland, Arizona, New York, California, and Texas.
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Strazos
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Wow, seriously balking at $30/hour? And FYI, most government jobs are technically hourly, even up to very high levels. Salaried pay is only better, IMO, if you somehow manage to consistently work less than the normal 40-hour work week. At least for me, I don't see that ever happening.
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Ingmar
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There's no inherent benefit to being salaried over being hourly, other than the general tendency for salaried jobs to be more 'important'.
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MuffinMan
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(What's a Torchy's and should I be excited about this?)
Started as a taco trailer here in Austin and is now expanding to Dallas and I guess Houston. Yes, you should be excited. I can't drive by the Torchy's near my apartment without stopping.
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Murgos
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There's no inherent benefit to being salaried over being hourly, other than the general tendency for salaried jobs to be more 'important'.
There is an inherent benefit to being hourly over being salaried though. That is you get paid for the hours you work, so if you work more hours you make more money. I'm not sure why being salaried is seen as more prestigious. Really, it sounds like some kind of a con.
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