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<blockquote data-quote="Byrons_Ghost" data-source="post: 2184125" data-attributes="member: 7396"><p>I did mean Circuit City, sorry. And yeah, that's what I was wondering, if you were talking about the stores themselves or the corporate offices. And no, repairing computers in a retail chain doesn't sound all that appealing, but neither does spending the next few years in what's basically a typist job. At any rate, I'm not looking to move, so that's out for now.</p><p></p><p>Programming what what I wanted to do beginning the degree, but as you say it's sort of the bottom rung. From my perspective, it looked like I'd be better off going into some kind of admin side of things, since that's less likely to be shut down or outsourced. Essentially I'm pretty open to what I get, I just don't want something that's mindlessly repetitive. One problem is that the university coursework I had (at UM in Columbia, incidentally) was pretty broad, and also somewhat outdated- they were still teaching C as the prime language when I went there, for example (they were just getting ready to switch to Java). I haven't seen much jobs for C at all, everything seems to be Java (which I made sure to take classes in as well) or .NET (which was just a vague rumor as far as the university was concerned). Then there was some database (Oracle SQL), a lot of web design, some development process classes, and that was about it. It was really a "CS light" degree, closer to an MIS I suppose, but they didn't really have that distinction.</p><p></p><p>At any rate, I guess I'll just have to keep on chugging. I had a call from a recruiter on my machine when I got home today, have to call him tomorrow and see what's up. It's a referral from another recruiter who had my resume, so it could be something legit (she'd told me about a potential opening recently) or it could just be a stab in the dark like you've been talking about.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for the tips, btw.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Byrons_Ghost, post: 2184125, member: 7396"] I did mean Circuit City, sorry. And yeah, that's what I was wondering, if you were talking about the stores themselves or the corporate offices. And no, repairing computers in a retail chain doesn't sound all that appealing, but neither does spending the next few years in what's basically a typist job. At any rate, I'm not looking to move, so that's out for now. Programming what what I wanted to do beginning the degree, but as you say it's sort of the bottom rung. From my perspective, it looked like I'd be better off going into some kind of admin side of things, since that's less likely to be shut down or outsourced. Essentially I'm pretty open to what I get, I just don't want something that's mindlessly repetitive. One problem is that the university coursework I had (at UM in Columbia, incidentally) was pretty broad, and also somewhat outdated- they were still teaching C as the prime language when I went there, for example (they were just getting ready to switch to Java). I haven't seen much jobs for C at all, everything seems to be Java (which I made sure to take classes in as well) or .NET (which was just a vague rumor as far as the university was concerned). Then there was some database (Oracle SQL), a lot of web design, some development process classes, and that was about it. It was really a "CS light" degree, closer to an MIS I suppose, but they didn't really have that distinction. At any rate, I guess I'll just have to keep on chugging. I had a call from a recruiter on my machine when I got home today, have to call him tomorrow and see what's up. It's a referral from another recruiter who had my resume, so it could be something legit (she'd told me about a potential opening recently) or it could just be a stab in the dark like you've been talking about. Thanks for the tips, btw. [/QUOTE]
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