minusonebit |
12-23-2007 11:29 PM |
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Originally Posted by bm bradley
(Post 13557169)
looks like he went to collage to be a 'puter expert then went to work at a help desk.
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Actually, I dropped out of college after two trimesters. Not worth the time or the money. First of all, I already know everything they were teaching anyway. Second, no need to rack up $50K in education expenses just to get a paper saying I know what I know. Finally, I work for myself and have for years, so I don't need any validation from an independent entity that I know what I am talking about since my opinion is the only one that matters now anyway.
2CO gave me good experience and paid me well for what I did. When I started, I was the only person in the support department so it was my department. When I left, there were 5 people in it. The way the company was setup at that time, I got to do several different jobs in several other departments. I gained alot of my server management experience then. Almost everything I know about detecting online fraud (which is quite a bit, by the way) risk management and credit card processing I learned from them. I probably would have stayed there longer but the place was growing out of the small business, feet on the desk stage and into the clean, sterile corporate environment which I couldn't care less for.
I determined that I had enough when they brought HR consultants in Office Space style and started taking surveys and other assorted bullshit and it was decided that they were going to change the benefits package around so that single people were going to get fucked on their insurance. I asked them to remove me from the insurance plan and pay me what they would be saving by me leaving the benefits package which they were going to go for until someone found out about it then it became a "Me, too" thing. I told them I wanted out and asked them to downsize me out of the company which they did and then I made a run on the unemployment system. I used that money to start several ventures which produce the vast majority of my income today and which no one here will ever know about.
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