i'm a software developer ... been doing it as long as or longer than many of you have been alive, 23 years now. my company (softmed) makes systems to help medical records departments of hospitals. we were recently bought by 3m.
i graduated from georgetown university with a bs in computer science. i worked there full time while i was going to school part time, so the tuition was free.
if you get a full time job working at a university, they will often pay your tuition if you can get accepted as a student. of course, you then have to juggle working full time and taking classes part time, but, well, there is no free lunch, as they say.
if i became a contractor, i could probably charge $125 per hour, but then i'd have to travel alot more and that is not what i want to do right now. maybe after the kids go off to college ...
the pay is pretty good (i make $135K), the hours are good, the work environment is pretty stress free, and i can work from home on days like today when the roads suck because of snow.
i seldom have to work late or weekends, and there aren't many challenges left, so it is not very intellectually stimulating. programming used to be my passion, but over the years, the passion waned, and now it is mostly just a job that pays the bills.Im sure the money is good, but how is the amount of work you have to do?
Reason I ask is I was going for systems analyst, but then I realized I would be bored out of my skull doing that all day, I switched from CIS to CS and im looking into computer forensics but it is a specialized field and maybe a little harder to find a job at first.
I wish I could just try them all for a week
Some great jobs in here!
i shoot people!:SNSign:
i would love to do it but i dont want to die and i have a 3 month old baby and i would go nuts not seeing my baby boy grow up....
But im a union electrician...in my last year of trade school, i have a lot of training in auto parts sales did that for along time...in about 3 months, when a class opens up i will be getting into autobody and will be learning to do fab work and painting
I work at Sherwin-Williams (if you have any questions about painting your house let me know.)
And i attent the university of Louisiana @ Lafayette (ULL) anf am majoring in electrical engineering.
This is true, and I do own more then one house (however its a rented two a nice couple) and that inturn puts a positive cash flow back into my pocket. Owning rental homes isn't easy! you've got to be able to read people and weed out the dead beats to make it work. One thing everyone needs to remember the more you make the more they take (goverment). Other then taking a few trips a year you wouldn't think that we pull in the $$$ that we do (wife works full time too) so combined we do quite well. We don't drive BMW's, don't live in a flashy new home either. Both of us came from lower income homes growing up so we both know the value of a dollar. And hopefully I'll retire @ 55 with a 7 figure nest egg, at least thats the game plan.
Our company just went live with custom SAP software and it's been awful. We hardly got any training and everyone is basically just learning as we go. It's getting better, but the last three weeks have been a mess.
During the summer, I work for Vector Marketing doing commission sales. During the 3 months that I worked last summer, I made just over $500 a week.
hey thats what i was leaning twords if i went to a university...EE...how do you like it, are the classes hard?
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