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Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog
First of all Pets.com on paper looked totally solid. Secondly, are you a plumber now? I'm actually going back to be a Teacher which in high school and college you couldn't have bribed me to do. Life's funny like that.
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you're sounding like a friend of mine who took a bunch of lab tech courses then said F it all and took education and is teaching high school now.
and no, not a plumber, i was actually one of the two 'lucky' ones in my class and got to find out first hand the hell of career software development. i don't doubt ANY of the claims in the overworked, underpaid, under-appreciated, type articles and blogs that have popped up in recent years against EA and 2Kgames. it's a vicious industry.
i barely lasted 2 years before completely and thoroughly burning out. while i might not do much of anything specifically relating to those courses anymore at my super awesome call center job, those pieces of paper did help me get considered (and provided with) a call center job that doesn't actually deal with phones at all - so long as you don't mind starting your work 'day' at 11pm.