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Aparna Sharma<br />SCJP 1.4 (yippeeee!)
Originally posted by Joe J. Wang:
I got a job working in a lab(manage a database, coding some web app and data analysis program, maintain their small LAN). Although it is hard I am still thinking of get a job in the industry.
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Originally posted by Joe J. Wang:
Hi Matt,
Network is very important but it can't be established within short time. And for getting close to some professors, I tried that once. But it didn't work well.
I am working in a kind of biology lab full-time.
And I tried to work for a computer science faculty. I worried a lot about how to not let my boss know that (even I worked in my spare time, if my boss know it, I will be fired right away). And even worse, although the cs faculty was satisfied with my speed to complete the project, but it seems he doesn't care about me.(i.e. although you are good but we don't need you.) Maybe he thought I am cheap, I worked for him free. I know this campus is famous for her arrogant. And a lot professors treat their student assistants just like slaves, especially for the international students. Maybe it is the core spirit of texas(I met many mexican workers, they said they don't like this university and this small town). My boss is the same too. Since I can finish my work quickly, he is always thinking about how to fully occupy my time. He let me to watering the plants (the work should be done by the student workers), he let me take care of all kinds of the machines (the Vacuum machine, the vacuum pump, change oil, ...), he even let me to clean his yard last thanks giving. Maybe he thought it is him who offer me a chance to make a living in us, to keep a legal status in us. And I really need to thank him a lot.
Ok, stop, that is enough. I don't want to be so Annoying. But I think that explain why I am eager to get another job, feel hard to establish network with some faculties, and wants to go to a business school in somewhere else.
Your said the certification can't help me to get a job. Perhaps that is true. But it really hurts. It kills some hope, and somehow, let me lose the strength to go further with the certification.
But anyway, forget about the job, I can still learn something from the certification, and from my experience, it is better than just read some books and do some coding by myself, although it is expensive.
Again, thanks a lot for the reply and advice.
Best regards,
Joe
All you need is open yourself up.
There are two sides of any coin. Not all Texans are bad, you must have experience with Red-Neck attitude. Not all the professors are like that. Everything starts from you and ends from you. Try to figure why you have been treating like that. Why the Chinese gal made it? What is her secret?
Is Chinese any better?
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If you business experience is the way to go. I think applying for the retail sale job. It will be your booting camp training you to communicate interface more effectively and think on your feet. You do not need MBA to succeed in business. Your MS is fine. Business people are shrewd thinkers. Their thinking are not outthere in space. Their thinking are very practical. Their competitive edges is outthink others in practicality and in the right time.
Ask around those established retail companies specially private ones. I think best is walk-in. No matter what, you have an edge over other competitors because you know Chinese language. Currently, labor market favor multilingo candidates with knowledge in Russian, Chinese, Japanese, or German.
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Originally posted by Joe J. Wang:
But originally, my though is combine my programming and business degree/knowledge togerther, to get a position of system analyst or something like that in a software/consulting company. (doing analysis, part of design and then implementation).
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