I've been promoted! +70k

Posted by DesertFox on June 23, 2011, 11:18 p.m.

I went from being unemployed, to being employed! I now work at a small company that does iPhone games and applications. Woo! Better yet, it's work from home, and I get co-op credit for it (co-op is sort of like a paid internship). Normally, such a job would be something to be highly skeptical about (a lot of work-from-home things are scams) but this came about because of a personal recommendation of them to me, and me to them, by my professor. So I got a job. For now, I'm borrowing my friend's Macbook while he's off at his job until I earn enough to buy my own. It is interesting getting back into iPhone programming. But yes, employment! I get to set my own hours! I'll never be late! I can show up to work in my pajamas because when I wake up, I'm already there! Hooray!

Also, I'm almost at 70k hits! Daaaaayummmmm!

I moved into my new apartment this last week. I only have one other person sharing a 4-person unit, so that means I have my own bathroom. Totally sweet. Much better than sleeping on a futon as I had been for the 3 months previous.

Lolwut? Firefox 5.0 only a few months after 4.0? It took 3 years to get from 3.0 to 4.0! Because of this, I'm expecting 6.0 in a few days at most!

Anyone who doesn't have Dropbox yet, click here to get it using my referral so I can get more storage space. Help a fox out, will yah? Kthxbai

Also, I saw this when I searched for WiiU on youtube.

Looks like somebody had the same idea as I did in this blog

Comments

Mush 13 years, 4 months ago

I thought you got a $70k salary. Working from home is good too.

Ferret 13 years, 4 months ago

Well hot damn! Congrats! :D

Also it seems that you've already passed the 70k mark :P

Cesque 13 years, 4 months ago

Everybody I have ever known or heard about (apart from one or two people) has got their job through other people and contacts. I'm starting to think the idea of fooling strangers into sending out curricula vitae to potential employers is a scam.

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Lolwut? Firefox 5.0 only a few months after 4.0? It took 3 years to get from 3.0 to 4.0! Because of this, I'm expecting 6.0 in a few days at most!

Cool, maybe I'll never actually have to download FF4.

BuniSuitClassix 13 years, 4 months ago

congrads there!

KaBob799 13 years, 4 months ago

@Cesque

Oddly enough, it's the opposite for me.

Toast 13 years, 4 months ago

If you were a Brit, "I get co-op credit from my job" would probably mean you'd failed in life.

Alert Games 13 years, 4 months ago

nice. Id like to get an internship job :( im still looking though

DesertFox 13 years, 4 months ago

@Mush I wish. But this is a co-op (cooperative education) so we get paid a bit less than entry level programming. When I graduate and look for a permanent job I'll get paid more.

@Toast but here it means win!

@Alert what is your field?

Alert Games 13 years, 4 months ago

Computer science. specifically im going down the business software route.