In my department, I am one of three or four people going to college. (I graduate next semester with a degree in CS, and have a job offer starting 2 weeks after I graduate, starting around 70k plus benefits. Can't wait to leave this hellhole). But of course theres also people that HAVE graduated and can't find a job in their field.
Anyway, what's this forums' userbase education levels?
A) No high school
B) High school
C) Some college, no degree
D) College with degree
E) Post-secondary degree
F) None of the above
For those that DO have a degree and still work here, what's your degree in?
I have both an Associates in Business and a Bachelor's in Human Resource Management. But do to having a frequently sick parent(she passed last year) and then both parents getting much older(they had me late in life), I didn't get much of a chance to use my degrees all that well(as I wanted to go into HR, but proper internships reside well outside of my town).
And you are right about finding work in your field after you graduated. I got my Bachelor's in 2010 and that was a doozie finding work that was close enough to home for one(so I could look after my folks) and for two, actually being something I could actually do and enjoy doing. Sucks too that I've had very limited work history and with having a younger looking appearance, a lot more employers never took me seriously during job hunts.
So in a way it was bittersweet blessing when I landed at Kroger. Sweet cause I find a job I can say I do enjoy and feel comfortable in my abilities to get it done. Just my remaining parent(dad), is harping on me to use my degrees and go into management and be made full time like yesterday. Or learn as much as I can and open up my own bakery, even though the closet I've come to a Culinary expertise is via Food Network, haha. So yea super lofty goals there.
But yea, I work with a lot of younger folks going through college now. Or they are dating/somewhat single and saving up to move on to other places. A few are also married and appreciate where they are and seem to want to make it a long haul endeavor. I'm still personally debating that one myself.
High school graduate, but I'm trying to go back to school. I did two semesters of college right after graduating high school and then stopped going for certain reasons. I really want to go back so I can get my degree. I don't want to spend the rest of my life knowing that I could've made something of myself but I didn't.
I have an associate's degree in web/graphics development, that well, i never really got to use.
It could be worse though, i'm making a good amount of money now. Just took me 5 years to get there.
OP here:
I'm assuming that's not a science based degree, but an arts degree?
Lot's of companies are looking for frontend devs, but you're competing against people with 4yr bachelor of science degrees in CS. I had an offer with another company for $20/hr, but I turned it down for the one I accepted.
Also, what do you consider "good" money? Once I start my job, I'll be making 10 times (9.7 to be exact) what I make now, (plus 4x the vacation lol) and I'm on the low end of the payscale.
I guess I can't fathom how any amount of pay at Kroger (except for unit mangers) is "good" money?
Bakery manager in Cincy division, almost $18 an hour. Not the *best* but right now, i'll take it. Most people agree that in my town, that's a reasonable amount of money to make.
My degree is actually an Associate's of Applied Science but i think in order for me to actually ever get a job in that field, i'd need a Bachelor's. Right now though i don't really plan on it.
well, have degree without somebody to support you i organization create stress sometime. i do have Bachelor and Master Degree while working with Fry's for long time but nobody paying attention to how good am my. get to grocery manager is even harder now base on something behind door. the people who like me have no power to gave me position because some people in authority have different view.
Bakery manager in Cincy division, almost $18 an hour. Not the *best* but right now, i'll take it. Most people agree that in my town, that's a reasonable amount of money to make.
My degree is actually an Associate's of Applied Science but i think in order for me to actually ever get a job in that field, i'd need a Bachelor's. Right now though i don't really plan on it.
Not necessarily. I'm actually going into web dev myself and it may take a little longer than if you had a job in that field before, you can essentially work for yourself. I met someone who didn't even go to school for it and she's sitting pretty with her own business. This is the route I plan on taking because retail was the worst thing that I could've done to myself. I did go to college before but couldn't finish due to illness. I'm kinda glad I didn't because I would've had a degree in theatre and media (which would be completely useless where I'm at now as opposed to somewhat useless where I lived, LOL)
You both said you want to do front-end webdev. What skill sets do you have in that field? Angular? Node.js? Typescript? Javascript? Basic HTML/CSS?
@thestruggleisreal, why do you think you can "essentially work for yourself"? Freelancing sucks. A LOT. If you think Kroger customers are bad, clients are even worse...
I'd recommend you both take a look at reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions and try doing some hackerrank and leetcode problems.
You both said you want to do front-end webdev. What skill sets do you have in that field? Angular? Node.js? Typescript? Javascript? Basic HTML/CSS?
@thestruggleisreal, why do you think you can "essentially work for yourself"? Freelancing sucks. A LOT. If you think Kroger customers are bad, clients are even worse...
I'd recommend you both take a look at reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions and try doing some hackerrank and leetcode problems.
HTML, CSS, PHP. A lot of my experience in it comes from working with WordPress blogs and some forum programs. I taught myself a lot of that, and I'm always wanting to learn even more. Time is my worst enemy right now since my current gig has me out of the house for 40 hours. When I was still with Kroger, I had alllll the time in the world. xD
As for freelancing--clients may suck, but you can't be tempted to strangle them either if they're abroad. I'm gonna check that subreddit out though.
You both said you want to do front-end webdev. What skill sets do you have in that field? Angular? Node.js? Typescript? Javascript? Basic HTML/CSS?
@thestruggleisreal, why do you think you can "essentially work for yourself"? Freelancing sucks. A LOT. If you think Kroger customers are bad, clients are even worse...
I'd recommend you both take a look at reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions and try doing some hackerrank and leetcode problems.
HTML, CSS, PHP. A lot of my experience in it comes from working with WordPress blogs and some forum programs. I taught myself a lot of that, and I'm always wanting to learn even more. Time is my worst enemy right now since my current gig has me out of the house for 40 hours. When I was still with Kroger, I had alllll the time in the world. xD
As for freelancing--clients may suck, but you can't be tempted to strangle them either if they're abroad. I'm gonna check that subreddit out though.
OP Here:
Definitely work more on something other than WP and forum stuff, it isn't exactly marketable anymore. Or if it is, it's not going to pay well at all.
Javascript (and it's frameworks/flavors of the day) are ruling front end development right now. Angular and Node have been huge recently.
I should also point out that my new position isn't frontend related, but one of my offers was, and we discussed what skill sets they were looking for.
You can get a free year of Amazon AWS services, as a student, and I think it's pretty cheap even if you aren't, for a year. It's a standard cloud computing model, so it's pay-as-you go. Anyway, an EC2 instance and an S3 storage is REALLY cheap. I have my site running on a Linux microinstance with Apache, and I bought a domain for $12/year. It's free since I have a .edu email, but if I was paying, I think it would be like $5 a month max.
It'll let you practice developing from the ground-up.
My degree was more in the graphics design field instead of the programming aspect, but I do have basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and Javascript, and I've created sites using Drupal also.
I'd need to do a lot of relearning and research of my own before i even thought about going back to school for it or anything.
You can get a free year of Amazon AWS services, as a student, and I think it's pretty cheap even if you aren't, for a year. It's a standard cloud computing model, so it's pay-as-you go. Anyway, an EC2 instance and an S3 storage is REALLY cheap. I have my site running on a Linux microinstance with Apache, and I bought a domain for $12/year. It's free since I have a .edu email, but if I was paying, I think it would be like $5 a month max.
It'll let you practice developing from the ground-up.
You can also do a traditional VPS for pretty cheap from Digital Ocean or MNX. MNX's storage instances are a pretty good deal if you want to set up personal cloud stuff.
