Career Paper Help

[Mike9182]

I am doing a career paper in English on Computer Science and had a few questions for you guys that have a career in that field.

What do you have degrees/certs in?
Where did you earn it at?
Was it hard to find a job?
Did you have to move to find a job?
What duties do you have?
What is your typical day like?
How many hours do you usually work?

Thanks for the help

 

[mikesgroovin]

What do you have degrees/certs in?
See signature

Where did you earn it at?
Various places. Mainly self-taught and then took exams in various states (MD, VA, DC and WA) but also in the Cisco Academy.

Was it hard to find a job?
No. Most of the time it has been through references.

Did you have to move to find a job?
Never had to move to find a job but i've been hired in different states prior to moving and then moved prior to starting.

What duties do you have?
Network administration, System monitoring, Networking and Security sustainability, Coding/Scripting, Technical writing, Attend meetings and/or facilitate them if I need to present something to a group or department.

What is your typical day like?
get to work
get coffee
check email
check meetings for the day
check logs
check requests
goto meeting throughout the day if any are scheduled
project work (this could be technical writing for an application that I wrote, coding, drawing up specs, creating flow charts... various things)
eat
(not all in that order)

How many hours do you usually work?
40-50/week (sometimes more, sometimes less)

 

[bla!!]

Are you speaking specifically to computer science, or the computer industry in general?

Computer Science is generally the programming of computers.

 

[Baez]

Do you need current students almost graduating as well or is this a post-school only paper?