Why SE should hire me

[Hobo]

Jyoeru if you are truly a Rice Alum and looking for a job... contact me. I know someone who graduated from Rice who runs a 1000 person company... +points if you're from Ohio, Nebraska or Texas.

[Jyoeru]

I don't get it. The fun and random threads in WoW's general forums are along the lines of "rate the above person's transmog", genuinely funny declarations of whatever, the ocassional mentions of something relevant to the real world, and waffles.

What we get is attention-seeking trolls like the OP and people claiming the game is dying. What gives?

I guess funny is subjective. Your subjectivity doesn't meet my criteria for humor.

Not sure how I trolled anyone. I have been cordial, and I even engaged a persistent troll in a polite and light-hearted manner. I think our definition of trolls are also in disagreement.

My apologies to you and your kin (future, existing, exhumed and non) for any offenses my post has presented for lacking in vanity, humor, or lacking in any way to relate to the real world. I did discuss waffles here recently, so I guess there is that.

[Jyoeru]

Jyoeru if you are truly a Rice Alum and looking for a job... contact me. I know someone who graduated from Rice who runs a 1000 person company... +points if you're from Ohio, Nebraska or Texas.

No, I think I need to clarify that. My Religious Studies instructor holds her doctorate from Rice. I am from Dallas, live in Indiana, and other than managing credit unions and just now finishing my degree--for the sake of the ability to say I have one (because experience + degree > degree > nothing at all)--I am really not qualified to take on much. Thanks for trying to lookout for us little folk, though

[Reinheart]

Keep on checking their career page and keep on submitting requests for the positions you qualify for. It could take up to months or years before one of your apps go through but once you get through and you got yourself a job interview, don't get nervous and just try your best.

Wish you luck.

[mikecoby]

Nothing says "hire this guy!" Quite like a list of non-accomplishments and begging for a job on a vidya game's general discussion board.

Graduating from college is an accomplishment. At least be fair if you are going to be critical towards someone.

[Marenwynn]

Apply to this posting: http://ch.tbe.taleo.net/CH01/ats/car...X&cws=1&rid=61

However, English majors are a dime a dozen... I don't mean to be rude, but most English majors share the same story of falling back to one of the easiest degrees to obtain because what they had in mind was too difficult for them. Most of them end up working retail or some other, non-professional job, although with slightly better opportunities for promotion. If you can afford to take out loans, I recommend immediately going to graduate school and getting a degree that won't be overlooked. While doing that, you could also build your resume doing freelance writing. If you leave it at just the English degree with no real work on your resume, it's going to be a steep, uphill battle.

[Hobo]

No, I think I need to clarify that. My Religious Studies instructor holds her doctorate from Rice. I am from Dallas, live in Indiana, and other than managing credit unions and just now finishing my degree--for the sake of the ability to say I have one (because experience + degree > degree > nothing at all)--I am really not qualified to take on much. Thanks for trying to lookout for us little folk, though

Very true. Once someone has a few years of work experience I rarely put much weight on what university they graduated from. Heck, I've even hired people that graduated from online colleges. Also try not to change jobs too often... if you hold too many jobs for less than a year it can become a red flag.

[Hobo]

Apply to this posting: http://ch.tbe.taleo.net/CH01/ats/car...X&cws=1&rid=61

However, English majors are a dime a dozen... I don't mean to be rude, but most English majors share the same story of falling back to one of the easiest degrees to obtain because what they had in mind was too difficult for them. Most of them end up working retail or some other, non-professional job, although with slightly better opportunities for promotion. If you can afford to take out loans, I recommend immediately going to graduate school and getting a degree that won't be overlooked. While doing that, you could also build your resume doing freelance writing. If you leave it at just the English degree with no real work on your resume, it's going to be a steep, uphill battle.

Fresh English majors with no work experience will likely end up as a junior copywriter for a retailer. Most English majors I know try to freelance some stuff on the side to keep the income up. Entry level 35k... max maybe 65k

This is why I tell people who have a good understanding of languages and math to go for a computer science major... Entry level programmers can make around 50k and can max out well beyond 150k

[Marenwynn]

Fresh English majors with no work experience will likely end up as a junior copywriter for a retailer. Most English majors I know try to freelance some stuff on the side to keep the income up. Entry level 35k... max maybe 65k

This is why I tell people who have a good understanding of languages and math to go for a computer science major... Entry level programmers can make around 50k and can max out well beyond 150k

That's even on the low end. :P Many computer science majors start out at around 70K USD, if they have any (even non-related) working experience.

[Stryker]

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I'm honestly surprised that a PhD for such a field exists. I get it's religious studies, but religion and higher education usually only get along for so long...like Jesus and Judas.

But back to the OP. That is the worst attempt for finding a job as possible. When people get random degree's and then choose to go into a different field it's beyond me. If the field is somewhat related then that's fine. In this case I'm not sure what the OP is looking to do other than find a job. Become a contributor for a gaming website and then work your way up. But specialized companies only have so many slots for people with non-related majors than their industry.

But man people are brutally honest in this forum with regards to majors. I didn't want to bring up many of the points since it crushes the soul of a newly graduated unemployed individual. I was kinda hoping they'd see for themselves the suffering and despair of choosing an easy and common major.