Finally got a job!

[Saint Nick]

I graduated in December '09 with a BS in MIS. After working at UPRR for a few years as an IT intern there, another internship opened up at a local utility in which my father worked for 30-some years. They just hired me today and I start Monday as a "Programmer" supporting various enterprise systems (specifically coding in Java, SQL, SAS, VB, bash, COBOL, etc).

I have to say that after graduating with my bachelor's, the job market around here was pretty abysmal. At that point, I decided to enroll in a master's program so that I may continue to work as an intern or get a graduate assistantship. Everything has finally paid off.

Everyone drink a beer for me tonight! I will be consuming several.

 

[Zeze]

Congrats! Lots of job threads lately (including me).

Go treat yourself to a nice bottle of single malt.

Obligatory location & pay?

 

[FoBoT]

 

[highland145]

Grats.

 

[ViviTheMage]

NICE!

 

[Saint Nick]

NICE!

Good luck to you and your Google endeavor...hope that resume of yours helped out at least a little bit!

 

[DesiPower]

Congrats and good luck!!

 

[busydude]

High five!

 

[wirednuts]

good to hear! what pay are they starting you out at? just curious

 

[dmcowen674]

Finally got a job!

Internship opened up at a local utility in which my father worked for 30-some years. They just hired me today and I start Monday as a "Programmer" supporting various enterprise systems (specifically coding in Java, SQL, SAS, VB, bash, COBOL, etc).

Congrats

 

[SKORPI0]

Nice, just continue on the Masters program to help you further on your career. :thumbsup:

 

[rasczak]

congrats nick!

 

[SandEagle]

gratz

 

[edro]

Have your loan payments started yet?

Now you can actually pay them!

gj

 

[Alienwho]

Where do you live man? I got my masters in IS a year ago and I've been beating off jobs with a stick, all in the near 100k range.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Congrats! I would love a programming job, but there is like nothing whatsoever having to do with programming around here. Even IT jobs in general are quite scarce.

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Congratulations!

 

[D1gger]

Well done! Congrats and enjoy a few wobbly pops.

 

[mmntech]

Congrats! I would love a programming job, but there is like nothing whatsoever having to do with programming around here. Even IT jobs in general are quite scarce.

That's because you live in the back woods. Quite a few web programming and design based IT jobs going around in the big cities.
http://www.mediajobsearchcanada.com/jobs.asp?c=59

 

[Saint Nick]

Congrats! Lots of job threads lately (including me).

Go treat yourself to a nice bottle of single malt.

Obligatory location & pay?

good to hear! what pay are they starting you out at? just curious

Omaha, NE at 54k

Where do you live man? I got my masters in IS a year ago and I've been beating off jobs with a stick, all in the near 100k range.

Thanks everyone To those not finding work...hang in there, I know the feeling.

 

[Kaekae]

Congrats and enjoy your new job/career!