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Old May 3rd, 2008, 6:35 AM   #9
MiKuS
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Re: Proverbial foot in the door

i'm working a bottom of the barrel job in web development at the moment. my pay is shit and my hours suck i would rather work at mc donnalds and get better money but the thought of having over one year ecperience and about 2 months into my second year i've been told my pay will rise to a better amount (still shitty pay though) this is more incentive for me to persue my second year and get more certificates of knowledge. i believe having good degrees and 2 years experience working a shit job doing all the shit work, mainly debugging css to work on all browsers is beneficial, my prospective employers will think that i did 2 years of good solid learning at my job but little will he know i've been learning through hobby.

i got the job in the first place through being a cleaner, but not in the sense of sweeping floors; in the sense of cleaning up code and fixing noobish errors from the designers and their ide applications. in the interview i was told that when i proved myself worthy of moving up the ladder i would be moved up, and paid more - both of our php developers are older than 30 and also know many other languages and much more than i do. i respect the fact in a masochistic way, i find it good that only people who have worked from the bottom find it easy to swap employers, don't expect get great paying, fun jobs first off.
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