I'm in high school and I co-own a computer repair business.

It pays for fuel for car, internet, computer parts, that's all I need.

I'm really happy to have seen so many of you people changing careers and shit (especially SX because he seems so together). I was going to college for audio engineering and about a year ago dropped out (due to a few factors... shitty school, loss of interest and i got to see how obsolete they are becoming with automated consoles). been wage-slaving it since, at least untill i find something im honastly interested in. i'v been having alot of anxiety about that lately, just glad to see im not the only one.

g0d']the thread title is "Where do myg0t forum+clan members work?"

 

I assume he means forum members as well as if not it would be redudant.

 

My first job while in high school was a courtesy clerk at a grocery store, you could rage people w.o them even knowing smashing their eggs and bread and etc. I was going to school and got overwhelmed and quit. Ended up quitting school but I plan on going back sometime soon as I am unemployed except my best friend who makes like $1mil a year (believe me he gets xanax bars, 1 + 2 mg kpins, oc40s, oc80s, more, lots of checks and food stamps even lol) a year tosses me c-notes here and there, so I'm in good shape. Even live together now living rent-free, w00t. Even gave me like a $400 video phone and I already got a pic phone so now I got 2 cell phones and numbers. He also bought me a tyte-ass laptop pent4 2.8, 512 mb ram, NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5600, 56k, 802.11g card, etc.etc. People actually think we are gay but fuck 'em I could care less I help the guy out and a good friend like that is hard to find. Or they think he is up to something being so nice but I help him out and he has cancer and shit. I'll eventually go back to school but it's nice right now just doing nothing and living it up. I guess I work a lil', hustling and hitting a lick but that's about it. I just need a little break from reality.

 

that sounds cool

 

i work at best buy get 8 dollar an hour and am saving up for college. annnnd my parents house is almost paid off so we'll be rich soon :O

I started off with a technical course in the Automotive field back in high school, but after doing that for 2 years, I realized the only car I like working on is my own. After I graduated high school, I didn't see a point in resuming at college until I knew what I wanted to do. After an unfortunate turn of events I was stuck working for minimum wage living in the basement of a crack house. Being on your own with no money really sucks. Anyways, after about 6 months of that, I was sick of it and joined the military. I served my 4 years and finished a lot of college courses in the electrical engineering field. I just got out last August, and am now applying at colleges to finish my schooling, and if that doesn't work, to at least get a degree at ITT or some other Tech school. For money I deliver domino's pizza and surprisingly make a lot of money from it, but no benefits.

Not trying to change the topic, but lets keep this thread going, because it kicks ass. Its good to hear other peoples opinions on jobs, and find out about what other people do and what they think about it. On a totally random side note I am so fucked up on overproofed vodka right now, so everything seems really cool :wavey:

Anyways, great thread lets keep it up :D

in my 3rd year at uni.. aint got a job but i wanna maek websites and sit on my ass all day k

Just got an offer to study medicine at university and become a doctor. I need to get ABB in my A-levels, with an A in Biology or Chemistry. I'm predicted a B in both of those so times are stressful. Aside from study, I do saturday mornings in my local hospital and have a weekday evening job on the reception in a doctors' surgery.

SourceX']whcih was my point' date=' so what youre saying is that your previous statment was wrong. get your shit straight dude, being a smartass dont work out for you.[/quote']

 

ehm, i dont get ur point,... yeah yeah, i know, that's coz im retarted,... anyway, care to explain?

In answer to an earlier question...an EE with a degree from a good school can write his own ticket, if he keeps his grades up, but most electrical engineers end up spending their first 10 years doing work a tech couls easily do, and waiting to aquire seniority, at which point, they become what amounts to managers of a technical branch.

 

Your general electrical engineer spends most of his time trying to find ways to design competing products around established patents, trademarks, and copyrights, and POSSIBLY doing prototype design for the same purposes. Sometimes, if you're lucky, you'll land a job where you're doing technician's work for highly sensitive and "run dependant" equipment...what I mean by this is...well, take high end medical equipment...they hire engineers to do the troubleshooting and repair, for several; reasons...first, the equipment HAS to run reliably when repaired, or someone dies, and the company can get sued for millions. Second, the equipment is VERY complicated, and you don't want to tell your customer (who is also in danger of multi-million dollar lawsuits if it crashes) that you have some high school or two year college dolt fixing his gear. Third: status and fees (you can't charge $1800 an hour shop time with an ITT E.T. graduate doing the repair work, any more than a Rolls Royce shop could get away with charging $500 an hour labor and then having a guy trained at Jim's Automotive Supply repairing the customer's Corniche)

 

Computer Engineering IS only "specialized electrical engineering", but it is HIGHLY specialized, so if that's what you want to get into, it's a good idea to go after the specialized degree...and it won't pay as much, and the early years are twice as frustrating, since you come out of school ALREADY specialized, and with up-to-date education in the specialty field, but still do work a reasonably bright E.T. with a few weeks of on-the-job training could manage just fine...and the pay scale reflects that fact...plus the potential employer list is relatively thin. If you want to be on the cutting edge for Comp Engineering, then I suggest a minor in physics or chemistry, with an emphasis on mathematical chem or applied physics (so you're better prepared to deal with theoretical applications dealing with condensation, heat dispersal, potential cheap cooling methods, and so on), or maybe a minor in general engineering would be a benefit, since it is a "shop based course", that deals with machine cooling and function in part (especially these days).

 

If all you want to do is work on advanced chipsets and such for an established company, hardware tech certs and a general degree will get you in the door, and ability takes you from there.

 

 

 

Sraylight...don't feel like shit, bro, lack of education is correctable (and it sounded to me like you're doing it). The high education level of the older g'0ts is natural...why the hell do you think we're so pissed off at the world that our major diversion is pissing people off? There's only two reasons to go around pissing motherfuckers off and taking pleasure in it...the first is to be a run of the mill bully...to deal with some internal insecurty. This might describe some of the older 'g0ts, maybe even most...that insecurity MIGHT be what drives us to get such educations (so we have recognition of how much MORE superior we are, etcetera etcetera). The second reason is the one I recognize in myself...I'm a bright guy...I'm not teh SMARTEST fucker in the world, but I'm demonstrably smarter than 90%+ of the people I meet on a day to day basis, and always have been...always been AT LEAST in the top 10% in standardized tests, always been in the top 10% of my field by any applied standard you care to choose, regardless of the field I put myself into, and so on, and always without any "real" effort to get there...so it pisses me off that, invariably, I end up under some jackass who's "average" in the field, but got there long enough before me that TIME ALONE makes him my nominal superior...where he gets credit (at least some) for my success...when I was in school, I had teachers who KNEW I ran rings around them on the intelligence track in a position to tell me what to do and how to do it, who could, and would punish me for ignoring the "bunk" in class, and would grade me down for doing the REAL stuff my way, even if I proved my way worked fine...like math teachers who'd mark a whole problem wrong because you skipped showing a couple lines of calculations you did automatically in your head...even though you showed every bit of work you had to think about, and INVARIABLY came up with the right answer...and showed your check the same way. In the Army, it was idiots who were BARELY passable soldiers who were your superiors because they'd been in 5 years more than you...by the time I got out, I'd made E-5 in 2 years, then SAT as a buck sargeant for two more years because seniority said I couldn't get promoted again, while my staff sargeant was a guy who'd been in 14 years, had made E-6 the same time I made E-5 (took him 12 years to make it, took him 6 to make E-5), and had to rely on MY advice to plan a simple flanking ambush for field exercizes...this fucker was also constantly in danger of being kicked out on a "fat boy" discharge, could barely pass the PT standards for his age, and BARELY qualified as "marksman" on the required weapons, while *I* was constantly running within 15 points of maxing the PT test scores for my age (300 point scale), could sail through all the physical tests, and the LOWEST I qualified with a weapon was "sharpshooter" with grenades (I can't throw accurately worth a shit...can't bowl, either), and qualified high expert in all standard firearms (and competed as part of both the base pistol and rilfe teams)...so on, and so forth...everywhere you go, when you're smart, know you're smart, and have had everyone around you ADMIT that you're better than most at thinking, knowing, planning, or whatever, they put someone who's ADMITTEDLY not as good, but has been "trying" longer in a position of authority...and THEN they get mad when you try to USE the advantages THEY themselves tell you you've got...unless you use them THEIR way, and on demand...which is crippling the advnatage, wouldn't you say?

 

OF FUCKING COURSE you get pissed about this...and end up with two choices...either you start laughing at the funny shaved monkies who put themselves in such stupid positions when you tried to warn them, or you go nuts. Assuming you learn to laugh, it doesn't take long to start HELPING the monkies get themselves into these situations for your amusement...this is exactly the mindset that gives you comedians like Dennis Miller and Dennis Leary...the difference in the two being that Miller still tries to get along with people, and therefore falls flat on his face on a regular basis, while STILL being briliantly funny when he's willing to admit being pissed off, so he'll be obnoxious, and Leary just gets in everyones' face, and says "fuck you if this offends you, it only offends you because you KNOW I'm right, and if this applies to you, you're a fucking dumbass".

 

So yeah...if you maintain this "need" to get in people's face, and put them in a position where they demonstrate what dumbasses they natural to find that those who enjoy this with you are ALSO brighter than average, and probably more educated, even if it's informal education.

 

 

As for your personal goals...dude, one of the things we've been hammering on is that there are TOO FUCKING FEW skilled tradesmen left in this country...and mechanics is one of the few trades we will always need local supplies of, so you won't be outsourced...if it's what you like doing, fucking do it, and good luck to you, man! There's no reason a good mechanic can't educate himself, or go to night school, or whatever, and get an education that matches or surpasses most PhD's...nor does he have to stop being a mechanic when he does so (though he's likely to end up an automotive engineer, against his best intentions...lol)...one of the smartest fuckers I know is a Harley mechanic (and custom bike builder and racer)...been MENSA since he was 14 (and is now 50 something), and doesn't have a single sheepskin...high school dropout, in fact...but he can talk aerospace, astronomy, celestial ballistics, celestial physics, and plasma physics as equals with specialists WORKING in the fields, as well as talking mechanics as equals with professors in the Automotive Engineering school at the local college...education isn't what the sheepskin says it's what you retain of what you've read/heard/seen, and how good you are at applying these bits of information to new situations.

Im in Porsche-Audi Training right now. Just got out of UTI and now in a graduate school for Porsche. Now im in Porsche and im training to be an Master Technician, and possibly travil with a GT race team around the world or try to get into an F1 team for Porsche becasue this is there first year racing in the F1 Class(i think) this year was the first. but it would be a good opportunity and then after that i can be sent to a Dealership.

Im in a apartment right now by myself so all i have to do in my spare time is come to these forums and play CSS.

 

Im suprized of the education all the myg0t's have. Very cool i think totaly different thing about you guys now.

I'm unemployed as of now (got made redundant a few weeks ago), I've been to college, I quit that after a few months.. couldn't stand being "taught" by someone I knew a lot more than, and people who just read from text books. I just work on my website, programs, game mods and drink beer now.. :D

ROFL you mygot guys are just too god damn motherfuckin funny

 

getting a degree in game design right now at SMU

 

got my major in software engineering at Clarkson U.

 

gonna look for a job in the business once i get my degree in game design..

MasterVampire']the only shit that pays good is cybercrime

Lol

Vampires suck they're noobs or emos, End your immortal life now vamp.

PsychoBud, just wanted to let you know I appreciate that post. It was intelligent and well thought out, and exactly what I was hoping to hear when SX said you knew more about that stuff. I do want to work on chipset design and stuff, and your point of view is good to take into consideration. A bit of a thread hijacking question, but how good is PHP for web design. I'm looking at starting up a website with forums in summer, and I've been told that PHP combined with mySQL is the best for a site along those lines. If anyone has any thoughts or opinions on that, I'd like to hear them.

yes its simple and easy and the api calls are similar to c++.

I work in Burger King. I never smile, I hate it there, and I am not nice to the customers. I routinely contaminate the condiments by putting things that shouldn't be in them, in them. When I work the drive-thru you can be sure I'll be taking my sweet-ass time purposely misunderstanding your order and pretending English is my second language. Despite this, I think it could be the shittiest job a teenager could get.

PHP is a necessary knowledge if you're going to do web design, if simply for forums, these days.

 

If your interest is in serious web design, the bare minimum you should get comfortably familiar with is CSS use, PHP, HTML, XHTML, XML, VBscript and Jscript...

 

But since your interest is actually more hardware end, and web design, at most, is a hobby, you're best off picking it up as a hobby interest...it won't help you in the hardware end, one bit (though programming does give you SOME insights to machine function, scripts and such aren't programming, by a LONG shot)

 

If you're seriously interested in the hardware end, but want to learn web based languages for your own reasons, I'd suggest PHP for forum uses, HTML/XHTML for basic formatting, and PYTHON, VBScript and JScript for the active scripting and controls. The only one of those that will help in the hardware end, in he least, is PYTHON, which will, if you learn enough about it, teach you SOME fundamentals about hardware operation...the two "program scripting" languages will simply familiarize you with the fundamentals of the actual programming languages they are sourced from, which may help later on.

 

In all honesty, though, nothing in web design is going to help your path all that much...you're better off picking up your A+ and networking certs...and even then, the networking certs aren't THAT helpful in picking up general hardware knowledge, since routers and switches are HIGHLY specialized computers, and learning them doesn't teach you all that much that applies to multi-use machines.

 

Getting into HAM radio would actually help you more in going after Comp Engineering knowledge than anything you can learn about web design or basic programming...unfortunate, but true.

i agree w/psychobud, finding a trade might be preferable as you won't get your job outsourced to india like many office-type jobs are (including a shitty call-center job i had recently quit). i just got accepted into an apprentice mechanic program, the pay is shit while i'm in training for 2 1/2 years (12/hr plus overtime and biannual cheap-o raises) but should be able to clear 50k+/year pretty easily after making journeyman. working on huge railyard cranes is quite a switch from my previous pursuit of useless history studies, but then again i've found that degree is hardly worth the paper it's printed on. hell the only reason i went back to college after usmc was because of the GI bill and my state picked up all the tuition.

Not a myg0t-member here, rather a freelancer. But as I´m in this forumkinda member I´ll tell you. Group/Middle-ware administrator at a german bank. I administrate the mail- and web-servers. Pretty boring but it´s paid well at least.

i pack screws rofl

i was a forum troll untill i got banned by sourcex for having a bigger dick, but for some reason i'm not banned anymore so can i be banned again? Cause my dick is still bigger.

Regarding your post PsychoBud, I am looking at webdesign as a hobby, as opposed to an actual career. The PHP stuff is sort of up my alley, because I have some HTML experience. I'm also learning C right now, on the side so I do get some basic programming knowledge. But what you said about the A+ and network certs, I am currently almost done studying for my A+, and im writing the exam in a couple weeks. Also got the books for CCNA and Network+ so I am going to study those along with Linux+ on the side. After that, I think I'm going to look into more physical electronics, because i have almost no knowledge in that. Stuff related to HAM radio like you said. I'm not so much doing all the computer/programming stuff I am now for career experience, but more for just general knowledge.

Well since alot of non myg0t members posted I figure I might aswell. Currently im in Grade 11. But also I have a side job working at an Auto Shop(Mechanics work) Im not a grease Monkey or a shop kid. I do work on cars. I started off two years ago as a GreaseMonkey/Shop Clean-Up Kid. I've now worked my way up to an apprentice, even though im not qualified to be one I still do on-car work.

 

Some of my co-workers believe I could go write for a mechanics licsense and still pass, but since my first day of work i've learned how to successfully rebuild and Engine and to preform numerous amounts of under the hood tasks.

 

Just figured i'd fill you in.

0ne']all you guys who posted before me aren't in myg0t.

i dont have a job, or goto college, i do graffiti all day...

in fact i just got out of jail a few hours ago for graffiti charges...

im about to go paint again too, because it rages the cops when i say

i wont do it again and they catch me. good times.

 

international man of mystery i am

Im the worlds hardest Ritalin Dealer! DONT FUX WIT ME!

Housemaster, I'd advise getting into electronic theory before worrying about a CCNA or Linux+ cert, as it will serve you MUCH more in an engineering pursuit.

 

A+ is hardware related...network+, CCNA, and Linux+ are essentialy certifications in various software...example, the CCNA (which I have already) is basically nothing but a certification in the basic operating systems included in Cisco compliant routers, and a basic education in the "peripheral" hardware anyone who's "operating" a router or router set would have to work with....to put it in terms someone justgetting into it would understand, a CCNA is the networking geeks' version of a MSOSCA (Microsoft Operating Systems Certified Administrator)...which is basically a certification that tells a prospective employer that you can run Windows from command line if you have to, and are familiar enough with it to be trusted to set group policies, or alter a company computer's registry by hand, if need be...

 

Make sure you know which way you want to go before you spend hours of study time and months of class time on a path that will do you no good for what you want to do.