I don't provide much information about my personal life often on these boards, but I'd thought I'd talk about this some because it's pertinent to some of you, I guess, and more importantly, I'm bored.

I've had really, really crappy jobs over the past few summers, and this summer I was truely determined to get a decent job, with decent pay, where I didnt have to wear a nametag.

Through some networking with my parents, I found out they knew someone who operates the open source system Zenoss , so I applied for an internship there, not really thinking I'd get it. To my suprise, I got an interview, which I rocked, and got the job even though I'm in high school still (Going to RIT next year), while the other two interns they hired were coming out of their freshman year of college.

They just got office space, and are just starting the buisness end, coming off of a $4million investment. As such, the interns are taking over the open source end of the company, offering me some really, really great experience before I begin my degree in computer science next year.

I'll be taking over the "community" aspect of the site. Creating and maintaining message boards, mailing lists, etc. Along with developing some more inventive systems of PR for the company, attempting to get outside the open source groups, and into the real world. I don't have much experience with open source, so all of this is overwhelming, but I'll be working with other people in the same boat, and I'm sure I'll pick it up quickly. (Full imersion ftw).

Sounds pretty sweet.

yay!! My fish is all grown up and getting fantastic internships for companies!

What is RIT?

Rochester Institute of Technology, it's a college up in New York where like half of massassi goes.

lol wuts college? Oh you mean uni?

/briton

lol, you go there loserface.

Right over your head, eh?

I hate the internet. No voice inflection. You can't tell when I'm kidding, I can't tell when you kidding (Although I did), the internet sucks.

I knew you were both kidding.

Congratulations, man. I am really happy for you.

I'd like to point out that Freelancer's sig is crazy and took him way too much time.

Back on topic: Awesome! That sounds like a lot of fun. I expect I'll be getting my 15% of your paycheck, like usual as agreed?

(Congrats. I'll call you tomorrow and we can discuss more in depth.)

(Also: OMG LOST)

Freelancer's sig == awesome incarnate..

Congratz stickz.

Congrats man

Nice.


Word to the wise; learn Python. Apparently thats what Zenoss uses.

...You do realise that we have things called Colleges here, right?

Congrats on the summer job. Sounds cool. Although finals are next week, I am more concerned about getting a job for the summer. I've applied to a few tech companies back home, but nothing is appearing.

Will be glad to see you at RIT next fall.



Everytime I saw Britons referring to higher education, I saw uni so I thought that was equivalent to college in England. University and college can get mixed up because RIT has the name institute but is considered a university divided into colleges.

OMFG LOST

Places like Oxford are made up of several colleges as far as I know.

Over here, Unis are for higher education, while a colloege is further education.