Job secruity
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Julia4u wrote:
I think you should start your own business
This is not good advice - starting your own company just because you were made redundant/layed off/sacked/quit from your current position is guaranteed to FAIL. It takes reaserch, dedication and a lot of HARD work to run your own company. See some of articles here to get an idea. OTOH some people are fundamentally incapable or running their own company (I am one of these). Let me ask you, do you want to spend 30% of your time marketing, yeah selling, yourself, and when you do win the job, you will almost always need to hassle for payment. No matter how good you are some client will always argue the bill. In my opinion you really must WANT to run your own company long before you start.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
I love selling myself, doing the dog and pony show. Basically I love being on stage no matter where it is and have a natural talent for it. What stops me going freelance are two things. (a) Health Insurance and (b) not wanting to spend the little free time I have dealing with annoying paper work. (b) is so easy to overlook that until you consider what the HR guys and gals are doing for you.
I'm largely language agnostic
After a while they all bug me :doh:
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What better way to start the day then to be called into your bosses office and be told that your job isnt as secure as you thought, and that yours is the only position in the company they are considering cutting :-( Good thing I have been applying at a few places in Tasmania (yes I am one of the few who want to willingly move there). Thanks to all those who gave me Resume advice last week :-)
"There are three sides to every story. Yours, mine and the truth" ~ unknown "All things good to know are difficult to learn" ~ Greek Proverb "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary" ~ Vidal Sassoon
Better to know than to have a buyout and a copy of a newspaper with the words, "No layoffs planned" only to find out they lied. Oh, and then fire you and keep the idiot who deleted an entire database when you took a day off.
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Thunderbox666 wrote:
Tasmania
Brilliant. What part ? Who for ? I may have some dirt... Either way, why wouldn't you move to the most beautiful state in Australia ?
Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
Christian Graus wrote:
why wouldn't you move to the most beautiful state in Australia
bloody cold and wet. Christian, I presume you are working for yourself, just how much work is there in Hobart (or Stanley by preference) for a developer.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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I was looking at Devonport as I have family there, but I have applied for some jobs down in Hobart. so pretty much anywhere but Straun Everyone I have told that I want to move to tassie, they all have the same reaction.. "Why on earth would you want to move there?"... so I have stopped saying it lol
"There are three sides to every story. Yours, mine and the truth" ~ unknown "All things good to know are difficult to learn" ~ Greek Proverb "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary" ~ Vidal Sassoon
Strahan is awesome, to visit. Devenport is the end of the earth. Do you do C++ ? I may be able to line up some work in hobart for you.
Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
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Christian Graus wrote:
why wouldn't you move to the most beautiful state in Australia
bloody cold and wet. Christian, I presume you are working for yourself, just how much work is there in Hobart (or Stanley by preference) for a developer.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
Stanley - bugger all, three people live there. Hobart is screaming for devs, I am knocking back people who chase me to work for them. If you're good, you can find work here right now, easy.
Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
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Better to know than to have a buyout and a copy of a newspaper with the words, "No layoffs planned" only to find out they lied. Oh, and then fire you and keep the idiot who deleted an entire database when you took a day off.
leckey wrote:
Better to know
Yeah I agree, and it sucks the spot that you were forced into... I hope the new job works out for you. But im sure you will agree, it still sucks either way. I was happy here, and the only reason I was even looking at another job was because I wanted to leave this craphole of a town, now it looks like I am in a position where I no longer have much of a choice :-(
"There are three sides to every story. Yours, mine and the truth" ~ unknown "All things good to know are difficult to learn" ~ Greek Proverb "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary" ~ Vidal Sassoon
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leckey wrote:
Better to know
Yeah I agree, and it sucks the spot that you were forced into... I hope the new job works out for you. But im sure you will agree, it still sucks either way. I was happy here, and the only reason I was even looking at another job was because I wanted to leave this craphole of a town, now it looks like I am in a position where I no longer have much of a choice :-(
"There are three sides to every story. Yours, mine and the truth" ~ unknown "All things good to know are difficult to learn" ~ Greek Proverb "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary" ~ Vidal Sassoon
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Strahan is awesome, to visit. Devenport is the end of the earth. Do you do C++ ? I may be able to line up some work in hobart for you.
Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
Christian Graus wrote:
Strahan is awesome, to visit.
yes, but I am famous there... I had an incident while bushwalking and had to call an ambo. As all the emergancy ppl there are vollenteres, half the town turned up (16 emergancy ppl icluding SES, Police, Ambo, and even the parks people... along with a heap of on lookers wondering what all the excitment was about)... the next few days were "hey wernt you the guy that hurt yourself the other day?"... the only good that came from it was the free drinks i got everywhere lol but it ruined my holidays as I was the only one who could drive manual, and it was at the start of my holidays
Christian Graus wrote:
Do you do C++ ?
Only a little... I am self taught in it and am still learning
"There are three sides to every story. Yours, mine and the truth" ~ unknown "All things good to know are difficult to learn" ~ Greek Proverb "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary" ~ Vidal Sassoon
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Agreed--finding out you are losing your job SUCKS no matter how you find out. Are you in a small town or at least close to a large town with some possibilities?
The town has about 37000 people, but there is very little in the way of developing/IT/anything I am good at The town im at is on the edge of civilisation, so it is mostly farming and the trades that acompany it The next large town (with any chance of work) is Sydney... I'm more of a country boy being rasied out here, and even the thought of living/working in Sydney makes me stressed
"There are three sides to every story. Yours, mine and the truth" ~ unknown "All things good to know are difficult to learn" ~ Greek Proverb "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary" ~ Vidal Sassoon
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Christian Graus wrote:
Strahan is awesome, to visit.
yes, but I am famous there... I had an incident while bushwalking and had to call an ambo. As all the emergancy ppl there are vollenteres, half the town turned up (16 emergancy ppl icluding SES, Police, Ambo, and even the parks people... along with a heap of on lookers wondering what all the excitment was about)... the next few days were "hey wernt you the guy that hurt yourself the other day?"... the only good that came from it was the free drinks i got everywhere lol but it ruined my holidays as I was the only one who could drive manual, and it was at the start of my holidays
Christian Graus wrote:
Do you do C++ ?
Only a little... I am self taught in it and am still learning
"There are three sides to every story. Yours, mine and the truth" ~ unknown "All things good to know are difficult to learn" ~ Greek Proverb "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary" ~ Vidal Sassoon
Thunderbox666 wrote:
Only a little... I am self taught in it and am still learning
OK, probably not a good fit then, that's a shame.
Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
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Thunderbox666 wrote:
Only a little... I am self taught in it and am still learning
OK, probably not a good fit then, that's a shame.
Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
No probably not, but thanks anyway :-) so are you in hobart itself?
"There are three sides to every story. Yours, mine and the truth" ~ unknown "All things good to know are difficult to learn" ~ Greek Proverb "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary" ~ Vidal Sassoon
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The town has about 37000 people, but there is very little in the way of developing/IT/anything I am good at The town im at is on the edge of civilisation, so it is mostly farming and the trades that acompany it The next large town (with any chance of work) is Sydney... I'm more of a country boy being rasied out here, and even the thought of living/working in Sydney makes me stressed
"There are three sides to every story. Yours, mine and the truth" ~ unknown "All things good to know are difficult to learn" ~ Greek Proverb "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary" ~ Vidal Sassoon
37k is a large # to me; the town I grew up in was 1200 people--very much like your Aussie town that has nothing more than a post office, bar, and petrol station. I think the streets of Sydney would make anyone nervous!
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No probably not, but thanks anyway :-) so are you in hobart itself?
"There are three sides to every story. Yours, mine and the truth" ~ unknown "All things good to know are difficult to learn" ~ Greek Proverb "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary" ~ Vidal Sassoon
I believe that if you know how to 'program' it does not matter the language. One of my courses in college was learning how to do the same program in 4 different languages including OOP and non-OOP. It's just learning the syntax of that language and how to optimize it.
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Stanley - bugger all, three people live there. Hobart is screaming for devs, I am knocking back people who chase me to work for them. If you're good, you can find work here right now, easy.
Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
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37k is a large # to me; the town I grew up in was 1200 people--very much like your Aussie town that has nothing more than a post office, bar, and petrol station. I think the streets of Sydney would make anyone nervous!
leckey wrote:
I think the streets of Sydney would make anyone nervous!
Nothing to be nervous about. I remember a bit over 20 years ago catching the train home after a TGIF. I was pissed as a fart and wearing nothing but a home made toga. Everyone and his dog went out of their way to come over and have a chat.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Julia4u wrote:
I think you should start your own business
This is not good advice - starting your own company just because you were made redundant/layed off/sacked/quit from your current position is guaranteed to FAIL. It takes reaserch, dedication and a lot of HARD work to run your own company. See some of articles here to get an idea. OTOH some people are fundamentally incapable or running their own company (I am one of these). Let me ask you, do you want to spend 30% of your time marketing, yeah selling, yourself, and when you do win the job, you will almost always need to hassle for payment. No matter how good you are some client will always argue the bill. In my opinion you really must WANT to run your own company long before you start.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
Mycroft Holmes wrote:
This is not good advice - starting your own company just because you were made redundant/layed off/sacked/quit from your current position is guaranteed to FAIL.
That is a skilled task to control more people. It should come with success in smaller spheres and evolves with time.
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson -
Mycroft Holmes wrote:
This is not good advice - starting your own company just because you were made redundant/layed off/sacked/quit from your current position is guaranteed to FAIL.
That is a skilled task to control more people. It should come with success in smaller spheres and evolves with time.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis LevinsonVasudevan Deepak K wrote:
evolves with time
Thats my point, take the time to make the correct decision and don't make it as a knee jerk reaction to a change in circumstances.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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leckey wrote:
I think the streets of Sydney would make anyone nervous!
Nothing to be nervous about. I remember a bit over 20 years ago catching the train home after a TGIF. I was pissed as a fart and wearing nothing but a home made toga. Everyone and his dog went out of their way to come over and have a chat.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004