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Hi, throwaway with a "fake" job (with quotations because usually 25% of the time I am busy). It is incredibly frustrating to me, because I consider myself a cr
by throwawayyawa 11y ago
Hi, throwaway with a "fake" job (with quotations because usually 25% of the time I am busy).
It is incredibly frustrating to me, because I consider myself a creative and capable individual, who is just fresh off graduation. However, I have a micromanaging, closed-minded rude boss (company lingo: "Leader"), who I prefer to avoid at all costs. At the same time, he seems completely aloof and uninterested in my career goals, which explains why I have nothing to do most of the time.
This is further led to absurdity because I'm in a Trainee position, someone who is paid a better than everyone else at their level of responsibility and gone through extra training with hopes they will ascend to management. I get no training either.
I've been looking for another job for over a year and cannot get anything else because of lack of experience and a nation-wide political+economical crisis.
- eru 11y agoIf you are smart enough to enjoy reading Hacker News, you might be smart enough to learn programming. Decent programmers are still very much in demand, no matter what nation-wide crisis you are talking about.
- seivan 11y agoI hope you're right, I want you to be right. But honestly, I can't see it. A lot of what we do essentially lives on credit. We're like real estate. We're in demand as long as there is a buyer. Essentially, buyers will cease. We're not doctors, cops nor lawyers, the world won't cease without us. Hell, even civil workers in governments although less salary, have better safety than we do. I can't shake the feeling that essentially we'll realise that all these companies we work for don't really "exist" as they're just the imagination of someones account balance. At some point its gotta run dry.
- eru 11y agoMy employer has just made `most valuable company'. I am not too concerned. They make a pretty dime, too.
- throwawayyawa 11y agoI do know programming, and I enjoy it very much. But I work in a financial department where it's an alien concept, and as such, unauditable and dangerous. I barely get opportunities to put it in action these days.
- eru 11y agoI feel your pain. Unauditable is a fun accusation: you probably use spreadsheets---and they are notorious for being write-only. You can form a longer term plan to leave that industry and join the tech-industry.
- throwawayyawa 11y agoBy the way, today I had a meeting with an IT coordinator in a sister-company. He knows everything about SAP. However, he had no clue as to what "Python" is. I work with dinosaurs apparently.
- eru 11y agoThe SAP ecosystem is its own little world. Nothing to do with age: Python has been around since the late 80s (even though it's only been popular for shorter). I once did an internship at the SAP mothership. They have good food.