A poor high school student needs advice! (For classes, Career, Etc.) [local grocer] [local community college]
Q: Okay . Ive built my computer, networked computer in my house . etc. etc. Anyway, I enjoy computers. I would maybe get an internship at a Network / Computer Administration business next summer. At this moment I work at the local grocery . and I feel like I have the ability to make / do a lot more before I highschool.
The from local community college has “Fast Track” courses in UNIX on Sat 9-12:30. By December 11 I could Beginner, Intermed and Advanced UNIX under my belt. Would this not open vacancies for me in the computer field only as an employee or trainee? There is adifferent class (es) that I should take or look for?
I want to do, not only for the experience and see if I field or not . but maybe a bit more than I make now in the grocery store, maybe working as a hand for a Comp. Admin / Programming, etc individual.
Is company or an opportunity for this or would I waste my time?
Re:do you plan on going to a four year school? if so, i would say dont stress about this stuff, just go there and kick ass. its the easiest way into the workforce. what guy said about CS and CE being different from playing games and building comps is right on the money.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Originally posted by: guy
try to decipher sendmail configuration files.
If you master this one, you may want to try your hand at other major problems facing the world such as global peace and hunger because you really are a genius 
Or spend a week programming a bug free, easy to configure, all around sane drop in replacement
Re:I agree with Evan – If you are not so good at the mathematics portion of Computer Science or Computer Engineering. Take Calc 1-3 and DE at Community College along with Phy 1-2.
Reasons on doing this.
1.) Your college might penalize you if you take these courses more than 3 times
2.) Cheaper
3.) You may find it easier to learn the applications of calculus.
4.) Grading usually takes in to account many quizzes, tests and homework not just 3 tests and that's it.
5.) Your teacher at CC will more than likely be more available to you than the University.
All in all make sure you have viewed all the different college tracks within Computers
Computer Science, Computer Engineering, MIS, CIS, etc.
As far as internships go you can go to your college advisor. However, you'll find that they might need you to be a college junior with a 3.0GPA or higher for them to accept your resume to submit it to companies. Best bet is to go to these companies yourself, tell them you are a college student looking to help out. That is what I did. However, then again your hours in school and work might conflict so Retail is another option.
-Glav
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Originally posted by: guy
try to decipher sendmail configuration files.
If you master this one, you may want to try your hand at other major problems facing the world such as global peace and hunger because you really are a genius
Yeah, I bought the damn book and I still can't do it.
Re:The #1 thing I did wrong in HS and College was not enough math. Take calculus from your local Junior College at night. Take the harder, science calculus. Then go on to college and get an advanced degree.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
try to decipher sendmail configuration files.
If you master this one, you may want to try your hand at other major problems facing the world such as global peace and hunger because you really are a genius
Re:From what I've seen, most people who "enjoy computers" (i.e. they like putting machines together, overclocking things, trying to get faster framerates in games, making thier windows desktop look like a mac, etc) THINK that they want to go into computer science or computer engineering. Then they go to college and realize that writing software and taking physics classes is nothing like playing video games, and then they change majors to Business.
If you really think unix is interesting, install it on your desktop PC. Then, instead of trying to install custom themes for KDE, and trying to get mplayer to work with encrypted DVDs, do some stuff that's more like what you'd do in the real world: Learn to write bash or perl scripts. learn how to use cron. Learn how gcc works and try to decipher sendmail configuration files.
If you find those things interesting, then sure, pursue a career as a unix admin.
Re:Originally posted by: guyOr if you just want one computer, I'd go Linux, since it's in such widespread use, so you're likely to benefit the most from that IMO.Or you have VMware.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
sure take the Unix courses. Install Linux, learn a bit of programming.
Then apply for a billion different places and positions. Took me 6-8 months of filling out several online applications everyday, and several real applications every week. Calling places, writing letters. Had several interviews, and didn't end up getting hired at my current job until a full year after my interview there.
It's all about learning as much as possible. The technology doesn't stop and it's a bit of a race.
So True, So true…
Re:sure take the Unix courses. Install Linux, learn a bit of programming.
Then apply for a billion different places and positions. Took me 6-8 months of filling out several online applications everyday, and several real applications every week. Calling places, writing letters. Had several interviews, and didn't end up getting hired at my current job until a full year after my interview there.
It's all about learning as much as possible. The technology doesn't stop and it's a bit of a race.
Re:If you wanna work with *NIX, install it at home and use it.
Courses are good for getting some nice papers to show, but when working with *NIX, it's 90% about real world experience IMO.
If you have, or can get your hands on, several computers, install various *NIX variants, say maybe one Solaris(free from Sun (http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/binaries/get.html)), one BSD, and one Linux distro.
Or if you just want one computer, I'd go Linux, since it's in such widespread use, so you're likely to benefit the most from that IMO.
Re:That's what I thought. Oy.
I just want an internship of somesort. I don't have a specific job in mind–I want to work with computers in a computer field to gain a little experience. I guess you could compare it to taste testing?
A bonus would be a part/full time job. I'm not really focusing on a particular job–anything in IT, programming, hardware, etc.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Was that a serious post or…?
:confused:
Ohh dear. He was being sarcastic.
What kind of job did you have in mind ?
Re:Was that a serious post or…?
:confused:
Re:You could work on SCO's software development team!
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