Computer Science Canada Tell me about your career |
| Author: | deathbow2134 [ Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:15 am ] |
| Post subject: | Tell me about your career |
Hello all! I would like for you to answer the following questions: 
1.) What is your current job title? 2.) Describe what you do on a daily basis 3.) Overall, do you enjoy your job? 4.) What do you like about your job? 5.) What do you dislike about your job? 6.) (If you don't mind answering) How much do you make per year? 7.) What educational background do you have? (What degree?) 8.) If you could go back and do it all again, would you go back into the same career? Thankyou! |
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| Author: | jbking [ Mon Dec 14, 2009 10:18 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tell me about your career |
1.) Web Developer. 2.) Currently, my project work consists of customizing a Content Management System to replace an existing system with a handful of developers. This can mean fixing bugs, implementing features, demonstrating work completed, estimating tasks, analyzing how things are done to improve them, stand up meetings to communicate progress. 3.) Yes, I do enjoy my job. I have a lot of freedom in what I do and have pride in the work my team does. 4.) I like solving problems and figuring things out. I enjoy seeing the, "Thank YOU!" that comes when things are finished and people are happy with the results. The freedom is also something I enjoy. 5.) I dislike going in circles on some things,e.g. that on a web page someone may want something moved and then moved back so that I didn't have to do anything in the end. Sometimes being on the same project can have that feeling of, "This is never going to end..." which I also dislike. 6.) Sorry, this I do mind but I'd give the ballpark of $50,000-$100,000/year. 7.) My degree is a Double Honor's Bachelor of Mathematics with majors in Computer Science and Combinatorics & Optimization with a Pure Math minor. Completed in 1997, which may be useful. 8.) I probably would take the same career, though I suspect I'd still be in Seattle as opposed to back in Canada if I did get a do-over on everything. |
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| Author: | karljoesen [ Tue Feb 23, 2010 9:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tell me about your career |
I would like for you to answer the following questions: Smile 1.)staff 2.) 3.)so so 4.) I can learn English and computing 5.)i must sit all day 6.) ..... 7.) 8.) I am not sure |
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| Author: | USEC_OFFICER [ Tue Feb 23, 2010 9:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Tell me about your career |
Might I ask why? |
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| Author: | SNIPERDUDE [ Tue Feb 23, 2010 9:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Tell me about your career |
I'm a student and part-time janitor (got to pay the bills somehow). Computer engineering with networking (with co-op). |
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| Author: | faethor [ Tue Feb 23, 2010 10:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Tell me about your career |
I'm a student and part-time tutor. |
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| Author: | Turing_Gamer [ Wed Feb 24, 2010 8:23 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tell me about your career |
Hello all! 1.) Marker/Corrector at Kumon Centre 2.) Go to school, then go to work only on tuesdays and thursdays 3.) Yeh I suppose 4.) Pay is great for just 1 hour 5.) Annoying kids who don't call me by my proper name 6.) 10$ per day, for 2 days a week, which is about $1040 max per year 7.) Still in school, this is part-time job 8.) Um, part-time job = no Thankyou! |
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| Author: | SNIPERDUDE [ Wed Feb 24, 2010 11:30 am ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Tell me about your career |
As a janitor I make roughly 13.87/Hr if I remember right. Too bad it's not steady (relief worker). |
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| Author: | btiffin [ Wed Feb 24, 2010 7:32 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tell me about your career |
Hello, 1) Software Developer, Project Lead 2) Programming 3) Very much 4) Computer programming in a freedom free environment (GNU/Linux) 5) Very little, other than the times the business development side needs Windows help. 
6) Three times minimum wage, which is "low". I don't mind low at all. For a long time, as a domain expert I was in the $180 an hour range. 3 dollars a minute is too much for sitting in a chair and coding other people out of work. 7) High School, attended Waterloo, left the co-op program to work for the Feds 8) Absolutely. The alternative was a career as a Fisherman on Georgian Bay (the family business). Cheers |
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| Author: | Turing_Gamer [ Thu Feb 25, 2010 8:23 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tell me about your career |
OFF TOPIC: What is with the penguins??? |
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| Author: | endless [ Thu Feb 25, 2010 11:39 am ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Tell me about your career |
^ linux lovers. thanks btiffin, pretty inspirational. |
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| Author: | SNIPERDUDE [ Thu Feb 25, 2010 1:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Tell me about your career |
The penguin is the Linux mascot Tux. |
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| Author: | Euphoracle [ Thu Feb 25, 2010 2:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Tell me about your career |
that is all |
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| Author: | jernst [ Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tell me about your career |
1) Phd CS Student / Teaching Assistant / Research Assistant / Web developer 2) Read all the latest CS stuff, come up with experiments & simulations, present research findings, travel, instruct students, grade assignments, labs & tests, attend classes 3) Yes, very much 4) Everything 5) There isn't 48 hours in a day.....yet... 
6) 50-75k, but pay tuition and travel costs (i live in a different city than my school) (I also work full time and go to school full time) 7) Honours BSc CS, MSc CS 8) In a heartbeat. |
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| Author: | USEC_OFFICER [ Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: RE:Tell me about your career |
Euphoracle @ Thu Feb 25, 2010 2:29 pm wrote:
that is all ... Why did you post that? (Because of Linux?) |
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| Author: | md [ Thu Feb 25, 2010 11:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tell me about your career |
1.) Security Research Assistant @ CRC /Student 2.) Classified (not really, but NDAs are a bitch)
3.) Definitely 4.) It's interesting, and the environment is awesome 5.) Not very much 6.) slightly less then btiffin 7.) Some university at UW, almost done my program at Algonquin 8.) Definitely, though I would have done SE at UW most likely. I would have also waited a few years after highschool. |
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