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Job issues Anonymous 12/29/15 (Tue) 13:16:24 000000 No.821

I got hired for a part time coding job (basically a, "Write a program that does a thing, and when you're done, then you're done" job), and even though the pay was shit (I could have worked on the factory floor for more money), it was by far the best job I ever fucking had. I would have liked to keep working there at that rate, but of course there was an issue.

I hid knowledge of my advanced degree (a PhD in math) in order to get in there.

Long story short, they found out and I have to find a new job now, but I find myself in the same position I did before. Before this, I hid my degree so I could find this job after a nearly year-long unsuccessful job search, so how the hell can I expect to find one now? It feels as if I might as well put 'ex-felon' instead of this fucking degree on my CV.

Anonymous 12/30/15 (Wed) 09:05:02 867403 No.822

What's holding you back from finding work that you can apply your degree to? Job market, I'm guessing? What country are you in?

Some ideas, given the somewhat ambiguous nature of your post -

If you have a great-grandfather that was 1/16 Navajo Indian or X minority or whatever, you might include that on your applications for the diversity-quota thing many tech companies have.

You might try to re-connect with people from your school to find out what they're up to and ask for advice they have on looking for new work, because you're "ready to leave your current gig." Be humble and most people will be receptive and willing to help - people are generally good.

Hopefully this gets the thread rolling.

Anonymous 01/02/16 (Sat) 14:04:02 000000 No.827

>>822

>What's holding you back from finding work that you can apply your degree to? Job market, I'm guessing? What country are you in?

I feel like if I knew that, it would go a long way towards figuring this out (for example, you suggest to go after the 'diversity quota' thing, which I am able to do, and on some applications I've done this and on others I haven't to little avail or ability for me to be able to determine the difference). I'm in the U.S., and I feel very similar to Zhang Yitang's story ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitang_Zhang#Career ) at the moment (minus the ability to solve some huge problem like he did to get out of his situation). This is also why at the moment I've been working on just trying to leave my area completely to a new one (and since I have a lot of dual comsci degrees, this is why I tried to pick up part time programming work, and partly what led to the current situation).

Anonymous 01/06/16 (Wed) 11:25:54 b1a179 No.832

>>827

> This is also why at the moment I've been working on just trying to leave my area completely to a new one (and since I have a lot of dual comsci degrees, this is why I tried to pick up part time programming work, and partly what led to the current situation).

Well, consider that what goes with you to your GNU/location is what you take there. If the problem cannot be positively identified as your physical location, it can't be relied on that it will solve the problem. Mind you, I have no idea where you are, so yeah, if you're in a town of about 300 people, you probably won't find any compsci related work.

That said, how does your resume look? Is there a way you could upload a link to a copy with completely falsified information? IE not a direct doc upload, but a screencap of a doc with false names, contact information, false school/city/etc? I have heard some good resume-building tips recently and may give some spark that gives you a better idea on how to do things with regard to that.

As for work, what have you done? Do you have projects, scripts, or other improvements you can directly attribute to work you've done? Things of that nature?