@Spectre said:
@Xyro said:Also, never write "JAVA" on a résumé. That's not how it's spelled.Aye, I never understood why people keep using French letters in English words.
Because he's not talking about a button on your TiVo.
@Spectre said:
@Xyro said:Also, never write "JAVA" on a résumé. That's not how it's spelled.Aye, I never understood why people keep using French letters in English words.
Because he's not talking about a button on your TiVo.
@CPound said:
@asuffield said:
If you mark somebody down because of what they're wearing, for a non-customer-facing position, then in my book you are starting out in the negative.I am astounded at the response I've received regarding the whole "wear a suit" issue.
Didn't any of you go to college? And didn't anyone tell you during your senior year that you would have interviews and it would be best that you wore a suit? Why is this such a foreign concept to all of you?!? It was standard practice for me.
Perhaps you shouldn't assume it is the same in all cultures.
@CPound said:
@element[0] said:
Also Cpound, i don't have a bullring, but i do have four piercings in my face, but then again most of the programmers i know have at least one piercingYou sound like one scary looking "dude". So do your friends.
Gee personal attacks on someone, how adult of you.
@CPound said:
@element[0] said:
Also piercings only make people look "menacing" to bigots like youThat's why I won't hire any of them. I don't want to fear for my life in the parking lot just because I gave one of my employees a task they didn't like.
Why hire someone who has the potential to physically assault you? The piercings speak for themselves. They say, "I tolerate pain. Do you?"
My 12 your old niece must be a total craze then, she even got two.
But i seem to remember she just thought they looked pretty, but i'm sure the whole "i tolerate pain. Do you?" must have weighted heavy for her too.
Well since he told you how much he makes, this makes a excelent comparative value for your next evaluation, in which you can explain that since you are older then that guy and work faster, you should be making what he does and then some.
Put on a wig, and sneak in a videocamera, because this sounds like one of those summer comedies in the making.
networking, pure and simple. Get to know other freelancers in your area, go to some b2b businessclub meeting. etc.. etc..
ideally you don't even want to have to read about a job in the paper, but get a job via a meeting or re-direction from another freelancer who is busy with something else.
Secondly, don't be a freelancer :) Get a real job programming and first build up a portfolio so you can actually show people you can do more then frontpage express.
As a disclamer, i've never worked as a freelancer, but because i frequently go to conferences and events and network a bit, more then once i got a request to do some job or a job offer.
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Also since you say your a php programmer, get to know some design studio's in your area, since on the low end of the website development world, you will often be adding functionality to some webpage made by a design studio. But i guess it's a good way to get started.
blacklisting posts is censoring, censoring is bad. censoring yourself is just stupid.
If i wanted dry technical stuff i'd eat a book, this is the internet, it can have flavour, perhaps sometimes a awfull flavour but at least its not making me eat paper.
If you can't handle crude, blasphemous, insulting posts you should move to missouri, america
Besides, one of the candidates to be blocked by most would probably be Morbius, who has a keen ability to insult entire continents, but by some weird twist in faith also makes the occasional good post