Quote (grievance @ Nov 26 2013 09:40am)
Gratz on your job man. Your background is very similar to mine. I also started coding around 12, graduated with a 3.5gpa due to laziness, and had to go through a hellish interview process to finally get my job as a developer/administrator (only difference being I graduated a year early in 2008). If you stick with it I am sure it will pay off.. Don't be intimidated by the guys/gals around you, hang in there. Considering your age and current environment if you stick with it you'll never need to worry about college or money (assuming you don't develop a major drug/gambling problem).
Glad to see D2JSP has some real talent.
Ah yes, I would like to point out though I had a 4.0 in every math/science class as well as the terrible programming classes the HS offered us. I was only lazy when I knew I wasn't going to need it. I don't see this job being of any problem and colleagues are hardly intimidating.
Quote (Eep @ Nov 26 2013 01:35pm)
Never knew you were that young.
Pretty cool to be doing that stuff right out of HS. I never actually got into programming until I hit my 2nd year of college (Age 23 or so).
Should be interesting to follow this thread and see the kind of stuff you have to do.
Thanks!
Day 7I forgot to mention that last Friday I got a promotion to a higher level, not really sure if you get that around the time you get out of training or not, I don't think you do as I'm ahead of some people who have been here before me.
Anyway, today I pretty much just worked, not a whole lot going on. I got my ssh client setup so that I could fly through some boxes finally, today pretty much the big ones were where a domain registrar put a hold on a domain, which after looking into it further I found it expired yesterday so the only records were the NS's and they weren't right, a renewal fixed the problem. Uhh, had some guy with a wordpress site that was broken, he had messed up some file causing a white screen. Other than that there wasn't anything too out of the ordinary as far as support goes, I'm in the process of moving over my sites from my VPS to one of the new cloud servers through Rackspace now that their performance servers are out. (not trying to sell anything here I sear, but) They all have SSD's and the pipes are pretty good, I forgot the specifics, it's working a lot better. This is unrelated to work but actually a node that my cloud server was on went down so some of my user data got corrupt, some of which I was using for the databases, so I got to troubleshoot the mysqld daemon all day to figure out my user was all messed up. He was in the db and also a user, however you weren't able to log in as him, so I had to delete/re-add him, then chown the mysql db's so that I could access them again, that was kind of a pain.
Yesterday evening I did get some good advice from some colleagues about what career path to take and what classes to take. I'm going to be looking for an opening to get certified as a python programmer, then I'll see if I can knock out ruby as well.