Noodleface
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What do you do?
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It's your call to make, I don't know your relationship between you and your boss. But I would lean towards looking out for yourself first. What does telling her get you? Once you have interviews and requests for references lined up, ask her permission to use her as one. Then at least you're farther down the road, however long that may be(weeks, months?). If she wants to fill your vacancy, she would do the smart thing and start looking immediately.
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It will be both. My school doesn't yet offer a tuition waiver for it's research focused grad students, but it's something they are looking into. I've been put on 2 grant proposals thus far which if they are accepted will be a small source of funding and like I said I will be a TA as well which pays enough to cover living expenses. I'm not starting my PhD until January and I will have a much better handle on the financials then. Right now I'm focused on tying up some loose ends here in TX before i head up to Montana in three weeks. But the most important thing right now is to have an advisor and lab that will agree to take me in and have a solid idea for research, all of which I have.
Noodleface
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Getting a little bored with my job. Sucks because I just bought a house so I can't really take a pay cut or anything. I'd rather be writing code than fielding meetings and generating specs.
McCheese
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Noodleface
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I did my coop/internship in core firmware and it was coding all day every day. I sort of knew what I was signing up for as a solutions architect, but I thought it would be a lot more glorious.
Are you at Pivotal?
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You'll find as you move up that the businesspeople/meeting-takers/customer-facing folks end up making a lot more than the technical people at almost any company, with a few exceptions. The money is always in customer relationships and sales. People who can bring in business are what earn $$.
Noodleface
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I think you're right. The problem is my department is a bit strange and only sort of exists out of necessity. I was hired as Software Engineer I, but I do no software engineering - I'm not listed as solutions engineer or solutions architect or anything. I'm worried about moving up and I'm also worried if I try to change careers later and list Sr. Software Engineer on my resume with little coding experience I'll be screwed.
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Noodleface
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Gotcha.. we are providing a few solutions to VMware right now and whoever is the person in contact with us is a pain in the ass. Keeps asking us for stuff that is clearly laid out in the specs (sorry if it is you, haha).
Jx3
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He lies, hes not sorry
Went to the school I'll be student teaching at. Met the Principal and teacher. Feeling really good about this now, teacher is cool as shit and knows what he's talking about. Our discussion ranged from politics, history, sociology and finance. He's also the school football coach so we somehow got to talking about fantasy football and I'm already signed up for the school fantasy football draft. So yeah, I'm super stoked about student teaching now.
Went to the school I'll be student teaching at. Met the Principal and teacher. Feeling really good about this now, teacher is cool as shit and knows what he's talking about. Our discussion ranged from politics, history, sociology and finance. He's also the school football coach so we somehow got to talking about fantasy football and I'm already signed up for the school fantasy football draft. So yeah, I'm super stoked about student teaching now.
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What VMware products are you working with? I rarely speak with people from EMC.
McCheese
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What grade/subject are you going to (hoping to?) be teaching? What made you want to get into teaching? I'm in education and I could get a solid job in the public school system in a heartbeat given my specialty (English as a second language; fuckload of foreigners in Maryland), but I just can't bring myself to deal with the animals that infest public schools nowadays, and the standardized test focus and bullshit bureaucracy.
My mom has been a public school teacher for 30+ years now, and I can't fathom anyone wanting to become a public school teacher after seeing what she has to put up with.
Noodleface
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I don't know for sure, they're "special projects" and my team is working on them but I am not.
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I'm hoping for High School Social Studies. Civics preferably but I love history also . I picked up an English certification so I could teach english if I wanted. I'm hoping to get hired in Maryland or PA when I'm done since WV pays shit and is pretty low on the comfort index chart. I picked teacher for a variety of reasons. The main one is stability, anywhere I go I can find a job. Worst case scenario I can get on the sub list. I used to work printing for Quad Graphics, great job, great pay until the recession hit hard and I was laid off. That sucked hard. So idecided to go into teaching, I used to give presentation at trade school and public speaking has never been an issue for me. I've been a manager at every shitty job I've had and 90% of them I was dealing with kids and I don't mind it.
2 Trimesters as an English teacher for Sophomores and Seniors at a high school here. I never want to do it again.
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I work at VCE. We're a subsidiary of EMC/VMware/Cisco. Build out vBlocks that leverage parts from all 3 companies. Our department supports (VM/network provisioning, etc) if they sign up for that level of support in the initial contract.