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06-08-2006, 03:38 PM
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Re: What kind of career do you have?
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[ QUOTE ] Sooga - how did you make the switch? I also hate software development. [/ QUOTE ] haha, out of necessity, for starters. I just quit my coding job, without anything lined up or anything. Yea, it wasn't the brightest move in the book, but everythign worked out ok. I just sent my resume to high schools around my area, and during the summer (when schools typically are hiring for the upcoming school year), one of the schools contacted me, I interviewed, and was offered the job literally 2 hours after I interviewed. These days though, with some recent Bush legislation, it's pretty much impossible (unless you're in the ghettoest of ghettoes) to start teaching without already having a credential. [/ QUOTE ] How bad was the pay cut? 
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06-08-2006, 03:39 PM
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Re: What kind of career do you have?
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[ QUOTE ] Sooga - how did you make the switch? I also hate software development. [/ QUOTE ] haha, out of necessity, for starters. I just quit my coding job, without anything lined up or anything. Yea, it wasn't the brightest move in the book, but everythign worked out ok. I just sent my resume to high schools around my area, and during the summer (when schools typically are hiring for the upcoming school year), one of the schools contacted me, I interviewed, and was offered the job literally 2 hours after I interviewed. These days though, with some recent Bush legislation, it's pretty much impossible (unless you're in the ghettoest of ghettoes) to start teaching without already having a credential. [/ QUOTE ] With no teaching credentials or anything like that? What subject do you teach?
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06-08-2006, 03:43 PM
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Re: What kind of career do you have?
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Sooga - how did you make the switch? I also hate software development. [/ QUOTE ] haha, out of necessity, for starters. I just quit my coding job, without anything lined up or anything. Yea, it wasn't the brightest move in the book, but everythign worked out ok. I just sent my resume to high schools around my area, and during the summer (when schools typically are hiring for the upcoming school year), one of the schools contacted me, I interviewed, and was offered the job literally 2 hours after I interviewed. These days though, with some recent Bush legislation, it's pretty much impossible (unless you're in the ghettoest of ghettoes) to start teaching without already having a credential. [/ QUOTE ] How bad was the pay cut? [/ QUOTE ] I was making $55k coding, went to $34k teaching.
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06-08-2006, 03:43 PM
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What is so bad about software development? Doesn't the time fly by when coding? Isn't the pay good? [/ QUOTE ] Coding is the easiest part of the job. Its the rest of it (dealing with managers, salespeople, etc.) that blows.
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06-08-2006, 03:44 PM
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Re: What kind of career do you have?
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Sooga - how did you make the switch? I also hate software development. [/ QUOTE ] haha, out of necessity, for starters. I just quit my coding job, without anything lined up or anything. Yea, it wasn't the brightest move in the book, but everythign worked out ok. I just sent my resume to high schools around my area, and during the summer (when schools typically are hiring for the upcoming school year), one of the schools contacted me, I interviewed, and was offered the job literally 2 hours after I interviewed. These days though, with some recent Bush legislation, it's pretty much impossible (unless you're in the ghettoest of ghettoes) to start teaching without already having a credential. [/ QUOTE ] With no teaching credentials or anything like that? What subject do you teach? [/ QUOTE ] yea, when I started i didn't have a credential. math/science teachers are always in demand though, so if you have a good sciences background and a teaching credential, you'll always be able to find a job fairly easily somewhere.
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06-08-2006, 03:44 PM
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Assistant to a pro poker player [/ QUOTE ] What does this entail?
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06-08-2006, 03:46 PM
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Re: What kind of career do you have?
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[ QUOTE ] What is so bad about software development? Doesn't the time fly by when coding? Isn't the pay good? [/ QUOTE ] Coding is the easiest part of the job. Its the rest of it (dealing with managers, salespeople, etc.) that blows. [/ QUOTE ] Completely agree. When my boss told me to code so and so, I did it. But the headaches started when they told me to code something, and I'd do it, then they'd say 'no wait, that's not really what i wanted, do this instead.', so I'd have to basically redo everything, then they'd make more stupid changes, and so on and so on.
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06-08-2006, 03:51 PM
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Re: What kind of career do you have?
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Sooga - how did you make the switch? I also hate software development. [/ QUOTE ] haha, out of necessity, for starters. I just quit my coding job, without anything lined up or anything. Yea, it wasn't the brightest move in the book, but everythign worked out ok. I just sent my resume to high schools around my area, and during the summer (when schools typically are hiring for the upcoming school year), one of the schools contacted me, I interviewed, and was offered the job literally 2 hours after I interviewed. These days though, with some recent Bush legislation, it's pretty much impossible (unless you're in the ghettoest of ghettoes) to start teaching without already having a credential. [/ QUOTE ] How bad was the pay cut? [/ QUOTE ] I was making $55k coding, went to $34k teaching. [/ QUOTE ] OK, just curious - wasn't expecting explicit detail. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
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06-08-2006, 03:52 PM
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Re: What kind of career do you have?
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] What is so bad about software development? Doesn't the time fly by when coding? Isn't the pay good? [/ QUOTE ] Coding is the easiest part of the job. Its the rest of it (dealing with managers, salespeople, etc.) that blows. [/ QUOTE ] Completely agree. When my boss told me to code so and so, I did it. But the headaches started when they told me to code something, and I'd do it, then they'd say 'no wait, that's not really what i wanted, do this instead.', so I'd have to basically redo everything, then they'd make more stupid changes, and so on and so on. [/ QUOTE ] Ya but if everything was designed perfectly their would be no jobs!
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