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Mister Zimbu
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 Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 4:30 am Post subject: Job interview |
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I have a job interview tomorrow... it involves Access database design
and development.
The problem is, that my only experience with MS Access comes from my own
personal project of creating a database to manage my session results for
my online poker games.
Should I bring this up in the interview? I'm kind of paranoid that the
stigma attached to Poker may end up hurting me in it. Should I even
worry about that? |
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AcesUP
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| Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 5:00 am Post subject: Re: Job interview |
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size up the guy giving u the intervew then decide if its ok to reveal this to
him.
On May 4 2005 4:14 AM, Mister Zimbu wrote:
| Quote: | I have a job interview tomorrow... it involves Access database design
and development.
The problem is, that my only experience with MS Access comes from my own
personal project of creating a database to manage my session results for
my online poker games.
Should I bring this up in the interview? I'm kind of paranoid that the
stigma attached to Poker may end up hurting me in it. Should I even
worry about that?
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BenjaminsClub
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| Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 5:00 am Post subject: Re: Job interview |
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If the guy hiring you is an entrepreneurial guy who owns part of the company
your looking to work for hit him up with your personal projects. Be sure to
show pride and excitement in your work!
If its a guy whos job it is is to find the right man for the job then feed him
the bull shit how you like to make a career there and your schooling and what
you have accomplished working for people!
Entrepreneurs see potential, workers just do their job!
BenjaminsClub
On May 4 2005 12:49 AM, AcesUP wrote:
| Quote: | size up the guy giving u the intervew then decide if its ok to reveal this to
him.
On May 4 2005 4:14 AM, Mister Zimbu wrote:
I have a job interview tomorrow... it involves Access database design
and development.
The problem is, that my only experience with MS Access comes from my own
personal project of creating a database to manage my session results for
my online poker games.
Should I bring this up in the interview? I'm kind of paranoid that the
stigma attached to Poker may end up hurting me in it. Should I even
worry about that?
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PokerStar
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| Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 5:30 am Post subject: Re: Job interview |
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Tell him that you developed it for a professional player on the WPT by
special request............They'll eat that shit up. (Best Answer Yet)
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Jeremy
www.PartyRiches.com
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| Quote: | If the guy hiring you is an entrepreneurial guy who owns part of the
company
your looking to work for hit him up with your personal projects. Be sure
to
show pride and excitement in your work!
If its a guy whos job it is is to find the right man for the job then feed
him
the bull shit how you like to make a career there and your schooling and
what
you have accomplished working for people!
Entrepreneurs see potential, workers just do their job!
BenjaminsClub
On May 4 2005 12:49 AM, AcesUP wrote:
size up the guy giving u the intervew then decide if its ok to reveal
this to
him.
On May 4 2005 4:14 AM, Mister Zimbu wrote:
I have a job interview tomorrow... it involves Access database design
and development.
The problem is, that my only experience with MS Access comes from my
own
personal project of creating a database to manage my session results
for
my online poker games.
Should I bring this up in the interview? I'm kind of paranoid that the
stigma attached to Poker may end up hurting me in it. Should I even
worry about that?
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Dragon Koi
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| Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 7:00 am Post subject: Re: Job interview |
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Just say it's something you made for a private client and you own the rights
to it if they want to see it.
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Esse Quam Videri
"Mister Zimbu" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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|I have a job interview tomorrow... it involves Access database design
| and development.
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| The problem is, that my only experience with MS Access comes from my own
| personal project of creating a database to manage my session results for
| my online poker games.
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| Should I bring this up in the interview? I'm kind of paranoid that the
| stigma attached to Poker may end up hurting me in it. Should I even
| worry about that? |
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| Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 2:00 pm Post subject: Re: Job interview |
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What company is still using Access to develop databases?
An interviewer won't put much into what you've done at home unless you
are selling your work. Don't lie and say you are either. |
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Aboo
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| Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 3:00 pm Post subject: Re: Job interview |
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You'd be surprised.... Our company forbids the use of Access, yet we
STILL spend countless man-hours in our IT department de-fucking this
stuff. The majority of this crap is created by reporting folks on a
whim or admin. assistants looking to get in good with their boss. We
find out about it 6-8 months later when someone's boss needs a REAL
report out of all this unverified, non-secure data they've been storing
on their frigging desktop and using in their departmental staff
meetings.
Can you tell, I HATE MS ACCESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Rich Shipley
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| Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 4:00 pm Post subject: Re: Job interview |
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Aboo wrote:
| Quote: | You'd be surprised.... Our company forbids the use of Access, yet we
STILL spend countless man-hours in our IT department de-fucking this
stuff. The majority of this crap is created by reporting folks on a
whim or admin. assistants looking to get in good with their boss. We
find out about it 6-8 months later when someone's boss needs a REAL
report out of all this unverified, non-secure data they've been storing
on their frigging desktop and using in their departmental staff
meetings.
Can you tell, I HATE MS ACCESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Access is a good way to make a prototype. And what better way for a
customer to show you what they want than a fucked up attempt at it
themselves.
Rich |
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| Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject: Re: Job interview |
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I once hired a guy because he used Excel to manage his frat's NCAA
pool. He went into all sorts of details and showed a true love for
Excel as something useful, not just a requirement. |
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| Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 6:31 pm Post subject: Re: Job interview |
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| A prototype of what? A slow cumbersome app. |
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| Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 6:31 pm Post subject: Re: Job interview |
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Aboo wrote:
| Quote: | You'd be surprised.... Our company forbids the use of Access, yet we
STILL spend countless man-hours in our IT department de-fucking this
stuff. The majority of this crap is created by reporting folks on a
whim or admin. assistants looking to get in good with their boss. We
find out about it 6-8 months later when someone's boss needs a REAL
report out of all this unverified, non-secure data they've been
storing
on their frigging desktop and using in their departmental staff
meetings.
Can you tell, I HATE MS ACCESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Access is horrible and it should be removed from every PC in the
office.
The fucking reporting dumbasses fuck so much stuff up. They may know
what the data means or how to calculate numbers but they are too dumb
to even realize what they are doing when they use access. Lets take
data from this 8 way 10GBRAM SAN enabled Unix server down to my single
P4 2.4 ghz and create this jazzy looking report. Then they complain
that this data warehouse thing is too slow and the reports take
forever.
I had to work for years to convince the so called reporting guru's that
Accces has it's place and that place is sure as hell ain't the office.
The educated leave the company and the cycle starts this all over
again.
Don't even get me started on Excel. |
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Rex
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| Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 9:00 pm Post subject: Re: Job interview |
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Access has its place, it is not in an enterprise environment. For
general reporting and WYSIWYG interfacing access does the job. If you
need something scalable and secure you need a dedicated secure server.
But why go through the trouble when all you need to do is organize a
small amount of data (non-mission critical). Excel also has its merits
as a powerful spreadsheet number-crunching tool. The three are distinct
programs with three distinct pragmatic uses. Choose what works and go
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Bill Robinette
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| Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 8:41 pm Post subject: Re: Job interview |
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On May 4 2005 4:39 PM, Rex wrote:
| Quote: | Access has its place, it is not in an enterprise environment. For
general reporting and WYSIWYG interfacing access does the job. If you
need something scalable and secure you need a dedicated secure server.
But why go through the trouble when all you need to do is organize a
small amount of data (non-mission critical). Excel also has its merits
as a powerful spreadsheet number-crunching tool. The three are distinct
programs with three distinct pragmatic uses. Choose what works and go
with it.
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LOL. Spoken like a true reporting guru.
All data in the enterprise eventually becomes mission critical and belongs in a
managed environment. Excel is a good tool but too many people develop mission
critical reports that IT professional's don't know exist. Next thing you know
marketing is arguing with finance about numbers not matching upand IT ends up
getting reamed by some mangment type for changing the database.(Read your
fucking e-mail and come to the meetings)
Choose what's RIGHT and work with it..
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