I'm pretty sure most income equivalent calculators factor in rent... Unless you're saying you rent out your home or something? (Which you could never own in the bay)
Yeah, you get job experience by working entry level jobs.
Per PayScale's cost of living calculator, my income here is the equivalent of $97,648 in San Francisco. I started in late 2012 as an intern.
Make that $120k if you factor in rental income.
Another interview today. Just a hr screener though.
I'm not exactly getting lots of interviews, guys. Like I said before finding jobs I am eligible for and then getting responses to my resume has been super hard.
It seems the resume itself is lacking the content that employers want. I've posted versions of it here and gotten reviews of it elsewhere. Format wise, it's fine. Language wise, it's also fine. It's the lack of internships and job experience that is hindering.
Helpdesk isn't /relevant/ job experience or an internship.
If I got 10 years of experience working helpdesk, no one in a tech company would give a fuck.
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Helpdesk isn't /relevant/ job experience or an internship.
If I got 10 years of experience working helpdesk, no one in a tech company would give a fuck.
Helpdesk isn't /relevant/ job experience or an internship.
If I got 10 years of experience working helpdesk, no one in a tech company would give a fuck.
In the IT world, at this stage in your career, anything IT is relevant. You may be focusing on programming, but a solid work history in a help desk, especially if some of that is during school, demonstrates commitment and dependability, something every employer wants. That it is help desk also demonstrates a general knowledge of the various disciplines in the world of computing, which is also desirable.
I was also quick to think I should put some recent experience on my resume, as it didn't revolve around the exact core concept on which I have focused. It still demonstrates history, which, if you have little, is incredibly important on a resume.
And if you can explain your choice in changing direction from that experience, and do so honestly and convincingly, you'll earn brownie points. For jobs where you are competing with multiple others at the interview round, all the brownie points you can get are very much important.
In short, every employer in a tech company will definitively give a fuck.
I'm pretty sure most income equivalent calculators factor in rent... Unless you're saying you rent out your home or something? (Which you could never own in the bay)
Helpdesk isn't /relevant/ job experience or an internship.
If I got 10 years of experience working helpdesk, no one in a tech company would give a fuck.
I have roommates for teh monies, yo.
10 years, yup - because that shows you have zero drive, ability, or desire to learn. 6 months? 12 months? While you are learning, earning a living, and attempting to better yourself? That's a different story.
I was an intern for 3 months before I was promoted. The next promotion was 2 months later. The next one was 11 months later. The next one was 7 months later.
I'm not on a help desk anymore.
Oh, wait - shit, I forgot. Help desk isn't relevant to an IT career. I must be wrong! Don't tell my employer; they might want their money back!
my only internship while in school was doing helpdesk type work for an aerospace company. after that summer i knew i did not want to ever do that as a career lol.
The majority of successful people I know in IT have worked the help desk at one point in their life - from executives, programmers and everyone else. It was almost a right of passage in the late 90s early 2000s. But I guess people like us, who have jobs doing what we want do not know anything about the 'real' job market.
I always called it "paying your dues". None of the successful people I know started off doing exactly what they wanted, where they wanted, getting paid what they wanted. You pay your dues on the low rung, move up the next rung and keep moving til you are either happy or tired of climbing.
Idiots that think they are going to be handed $75k jobs with no experience are just idiots.
my first "real" job out of college was a software development gig, which is exactly what i wanted to do. my help desk job was during college and just for a summer. i wasn't even looking for a help desk type of job when i graduated, and i probably wouldn't have ever pursued one either.
but yeah, i didn't make the 6 figures right out of school like of course everyone wants to, but i did hit it before the age of 30. my first job was $48k.
<insert similar anecdotal experience here, except replace 48k with 33k>
Those were the days.
I was 32k right out of college as a paper pusher.
Then I got promoted and made 45k 9 mos later.
I remember being unable to sleep at night because I had no money- just living paycheck to paycheck.
$300 car payment + $200 studen loan + car insurance + $600 rent + gas + $$ For EVERYTHING (first time truly living on my own, even toilet paper cost my own money). It was fun realizing first hand that stuff at my parents' home didn't exist for free magically.
I do not miss it.
maybe if you have a real job. but he has all the time in the world.
only way i would not do more than 1 interview a day would be if i was working already and needed time off for the interview.
but phone interviews/screens? pffft. i did like 2-3 a day when i was looking for a new job. i would just walk out of the building and go walk around on the phone talking to companies.
Helpdesk isn't /relevant/ job experience or an internship.
If I got 10 years of experience working helpdesk, no one in a tech company would give a fuck.
I disagree completely. Working at a helpdesk does not mean you live in a silo. you should be networking, talking with developers, engineers etc. while you work. You don't take the skills you learn at a Helpdesk and magically they go away. I've learned many things, good and bad while working in that role.
Oh, that's how I was promoted and in the position I'm in now.
Helpdesk doesn't mean there are teams of software developers/engineers in your company. :\ I should know, I've done helpdesk...