Why not? Can't hurt sounding out the market. As long as you're open with your timelines to them so when the time comes they don't think you're not serious about it. I always like to check out the market first.
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Caporegime
I don't get my place. The most useless people get promoted. The best don't. My mind boggles.
I found this in one company I worked for awhile back... for three years I was chosen over lesser experienced and lesser qualified folk (on various occasions). Eventually I left and since then I've found that getting into better positions normally entails finding a new employer.
Happens everywhere. Where I'm contracting is the most retarded place. It's all political and about what you do for the right people, not doing the best job. Stupid place.
Other news, we've had our place accepted to sponsor InstructureCon conference in July. We get a booth and everything. Which is nice. Shame I have to find the $7.5k fee for it now! :/ oof.
I'm hammering cold call/ sales attempts this week. Need some traction in K-12.
Other news, we've had our place accepted to sponsor InstructureCon conference in July. We get a booth and everything. Which is nice. Shame I have to find the $7.5k fee for it now! :/ oof.
I'm hammering cold call/ sales attempts this week. Need some traction in K-12.
Caporegime
Wondering whether to slog it out here for another year or what...Just need a bit more money, but everyone who has asked just gets told it isn't as easy as that.
Because of the above, I end up declining 'paid for' courses because I can't guarantee I'll be staying with the company for 'x' number of years meaning I'll need to pay it back..Which I can't afford!
Because of the above, I end up declining 'paid for' courses because I can't guarantee I'll be staying with the company for 'x' number of years meaning I'll need to pay it back..Which I can't afford!
Wow, that sounds like the perfect example of Catch 22.
As has been mentioned above, decent pay-rises seldom come from the company you are working for.
Is the course specific to your company? If not, move on, do the course with another company which will pay you a better wage to give you the ability to move on if you wish.
Don't pigeon-hole yourself within a company, you'll grow to resent it.
Would they actually make you pay it back? That's BS. I hate companies.
Would it be worth attending the courses, and then if you do jump ship (assuming a decent payrise) you could pay it back in instalments?
When I left my last company I owed them about £3.5k in training costs, I managed to negotiate it down to £1k and I'm paying that back over 12 months.
Don't forget that companies benefit themselves from pushing their employees through course, it's not a one way situation.
If employers put their employees in an impossible situation like this then frankly it isn't fair.
Caporegime
Doesn't help I'm only on sub 21k.
Basically the amount you pay in total goes down every month, if I stay long enough (that's assuming the pay goes down from me being enrolled in the course and not after I pass) then I don't pay anything back.
Is it relevant? Not majorly no, it's a course in SCCM basically, which I use anyway to push out patches and soon will be creating patches for...the courses always seem very "hey, why not try this, it's kinda related".
Basically the amount you pay in total goes down every month, if I stay long enough (that's assuming the pay goes down from me being enrolled in the course and not after I pass) then I don't pay anything back.
Is it relevant? Not majorly no, it's a course in SCCM basically, which I use anyway to push out patches and soon will be creating patches for...the courses always seem very "hey, why not try this, it's kinda related".
I've been asked to speak at a conference in London in June called the Future of Education, which is nice. Great free PR. I like.
The talk is: Student Centric Data - It's All About Context -
The talk is: Student Centric Data - It's All About Context -
Got this month's payslip. Let;s just say that 84 hours OT definitely paid off
Time for a new Lego set methinks
The Tax is sickening though isn't it!
Paid £1,300 this month in total, probabally more tax that most of the wealthy pay in a year
Soldato
Meeting more customers and starting to build connections... great... but I am off training next week, then on annual leave for the last two weeks of May! Itching to make more of an impact but guess I just need to wait it out!
Caporegime
Well...we'd ridden the storm but redundancies announced today. Boom!
Caporegime
The Tax is sickening though isn't it!
Paid £1,300 this month in total, probabally more tax that most of the wealthy pay in a year
That's £100 or so less than what I get paid AFTER tax
Soldato
For me currently. I feel very stuck
I love working with data, Mi, reports all that sort of stuff - making sense of sheets of number and data and allowing people to the understand and make descion's from it with insight and guidence.
But I feel like I've stepped back in my current role from it and I miss the whole interaction and creation.
Very much like me. Been developing reports and analysing data for the best part of 10 years now.
Anyone here heard of D3?
Associate
You mean the Javascript stuff for library's of data?
Heard about it - not got any exposure yet though
Heard about it - not got any exposure yet though