Jeanne Boyarsky wrote:Do you have an experience? Technical or working in an office or working at a store? Or volunteer? Why should someone hire you with a month of Java knowledge and certificate. Vs someone with a degree. Or an internship. Or who has created a website. (you might have more Java knowledge; I can't tell from the post)
Think about this before spending your savings. It might be harder to get a job than you expect. In which case, you'll want that savings.
Thank you (both) for your contribution.
As far as store experience goes, I worked as a salesman for 2 years in the biggest radio/tv/home appliances company in my country. It was a job that was pushing customers' wallets to the limits. Made over 2000 sales for 2.5m total. I know theory and practice on how to make those wallets empty
I quitted because with average of 120k worth of sales a month I was getting ~350$ / month. Unfortunately that experience has nothing to do with programming.
As for degree, I studied Computer Science for 3 years at 'theoretically' best university in the country. I quitted because we were doing mostly math; the newest language we were using was c. I can freaking understand Fortran and it's floating point numerical accuracy on matrixes, I know how all those quick searches, binary searches, trees and others work. Which is totally useless, because Java has those in standrad libraries. And they can be used in 1 line.
As for your second question, the websites who collect info on salaries (like salary.com) claim that the average salary in my country for the position I want is around 3k/month, while I can work for 2k, so although I can't beat others with internship as far as real experience goes, I can however underbid them. I realise it's not that strong of an argument, but well, there it is.