I-T job needed at Pella Windows

[Chief Henry]

I'm looking through our local fish wrap this morning and I see a job opening for an I-T Tech Support in Pella, Iowa at Pella Windows.

Since many of you that dip into the Chiefs planet daily are I-T tech
nerds, errrr, specialist I thought you'd want to know about this opening,
so I'm bringing it to your attention.

What if you planet members posted jobs that you see here at the planet.
Maybe you could start a new section ? maybe it might be too much work to manage-that i don't know since I'm not one of the moderators.

The add mention'd above for Pella Windows says to contact
jkrumer@pella.com

Goodluck, if your interested.

[Mr. Kotter]

Originally Posted by Phobia

Talk to Braincase about that.

Thanks. I knew there were one or two....I'll have to do that.

[David.]

Originally Posted by Phobia

Where?

Both my brother and sister attended Central.

Heh, i looked it up on mapquest and it's apparently like a half hour. But the town I lived in was Baxter, it's like....maybe 300 people. I think I went there from 8th grade to freshman year, which would be...99 to 01.

My mom used to go to pella all the time though, something about tulips or something.

[ct]

Originally Posted by Mr. Kotter

Programmers? What do you do, on a day-to-day basis?

Typically spend most of the day perusing the planet.

Seriously though, if you're lucky you actually get to spend much of your day writing code, testing, debugging, and perfecting the application. Yet for most, you'll end up documenting your work, talking about problems in meetings, trying to teach/mentor the n00bs, supervising contractors, or outside on smoke break to get away from your crazy line of work. And that's just 8-5. I didn't get into the pager thing overnight or weekends. FYI, I changed teams and started over just to be rid of the pager thing. Although I do take my turn on-call, it's not nearly like my old project team. I now work in the Data Warehouse, Database/ETL(Extract-Transform-Load) Architect. FWIW, at this point, if I could find something...ANYTHING, to pay near what I get now, but outside I/T, I'm all over it!! Sadly, I'm nowhere near the # Phil was talking about, or else I'd be just fine to stick around.

As for how to get an in, I was lucky to be wrapping up a BS in Math during the rise of dot-com lunacy, so jobs were literally everywhere. Once I got a little experience (6 months before my 1st company was sold and moved to Dallas), I found my current home(now 7.5 years). Nowadays you'll likely need a CS/MIS degree, or a serious technical aptitude to get in the door, and w/out that degree you'll be starting on the help desk or as a gopher for the client(PC/workstation setup) for a year or two.

Cory just posted a lot of truth.

There was a lot of money being thrown around at technical gurus in the late 90's. At times I was billing 3k a day.

[StcChief]

We did ok in the 90s the backlash after dotcom bust due to a bunch of bad business plans P/E out of line, and general take the money and try sh1t approach to work in developing internet business.

Tech Consultant, emps of those companies took the industry backwards for the most part $10-20/hr.

It has made the can do folks back in demand again.
Painful lesson to lots of people.

Experience and solid work will help the older developer types.

Younger IT guys will need a Cert in their area, plus degree and some experience to get above starting money.

Head down, sharpen the saw regularly. Don't be afraid to move with a few projects/years once you confident in your skills.

[Hoover]

Pella is close to Hooverville!

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by Mr. Kotter

Question for IT folks:

Are IT degrees required for most IT jobs? What kind of experience is needed? What kind of pay can one expect?

No.

My degree is in history/German...

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by Saulbadguy

Do you get a discount on the windows?

Yes.

You get a flat discount on new windows (everything at Pella is essentially made to order) and in addition they have weekly auctions of "scratch and dent" where you can get nice windows for pennies on the dollar.

I'm a personal friend of the Help Desk manager, btw.