Forum Overview :: Rants :: Re: The HR one. Definitely.

[quote name="Senor Barborito"][quote name="Cyrris"][quote name="FoK"] JrA mentioned that HR people are all scumbags. This is true, as a stereotype. By that same, token, MIS people are idiots that couldn't do hard enough math to be a real programmer. As a stereotype. So, which would you rather be?[/quote] I wish he knew what he meant by "scumbag". My personality tends to contain more anger than anything else. The bulk of my programming experience has been Visual Basic, HTML, and building a simple database using SQL. I prefer solving problems like "how can we survive the next two years" to solving "hard math". [/quote] HTML isn't programming. It's just markup regardless of the word 'language' at the end. A lot of geeks would say that Visual Basic isn't programming either, but that's pretty much mostly-unjustified elitism. Speaking as someone who has known you since second grade . . . fuck dude, neither suits you. I think we were both supposed to die soaked in the blood of our enemies and somewhere darwinism just went horribly, horribly wrong. I'd be against HR, though. That's pretty much a field for chicks. Generally speaking (in my limited experience) HR's real function is to serve as a trumped-up company harem, and while I'd love to laugh at your castration I doubt you'd enjoy serving as a eunuch for some CEO's bevy of mistresses. The truth is - while you're not as bad as some, you've never been a whole-hog geek so I'm not qualified to give even rudimentary advice as to where you should focus. But for the Hell of it - if I were you I'd go MIS *AND* get my A+, MCSE, and CCNA certifications in exactly that order so that I was certain I absolutely knew a fuckload about tech. But you're you and it might be a bad start to your career to cast yourself as in-the-trenches-tech material because that means you'll be typecast right off and be stuck there instead of advancing to management. Two kinds of people have rights in America: those with money and attorneys. The former get money one of two ways: rising through the management ranks via ass-covering better than the next guy, or investing more intelligently than the next guy. Smart or not, you're not an investment type and you've not the temper for being an attorney. That leaves you with management, sadly, and as it is I'm worried about your temper the first time someone manages to stick something on you that you can't cover your ass on. I'd think you're more likely to rise up through the ranks via MIS than via HR, but I don't really know enough about the corporate world to make that judgement. My $.02, --SB[/quote]