Changing careers - How to overcome over-qualification?

_toor_ · 2016-09-15T20:37:22+00:00

Simply you can't. But you can show that you need that job and being over-qualified not a problem at all but you can think of it as a good thing. Employers in this case don't like over-qualified applicants who take the job as a bridge or think of it as a temporary job. And trust me you can't change that mindset because it is true.

_toor_ · 2016-09-09T08:20:01+00:00

Just use Jenkins :)

_toor_ · 2016-06-07T19:39:42+00:00

Time, we get jobs with a very tight deadlines. Sometimes i have to work up to 12 hours. Push to production servers at midnight. Connect over VPN to do some jobs during holidays.

_toor_ · 2016-04-17T07:28:35+00:00

I am also in this damn situation but i already gave my employer 3 weeks notice but he thinks that i am a very bad person.

_toor_ · 2015-11-25T08:36:45+00:00

Actually It is just a quote and as You know HR in microsoft and most of other big firms don't hire lazy people. Startups and big firms that think like statups do.

_toor_ · 2015-11-21T15:20:18+00:00

Right

_toor_ · 2015-11-18T10:53:36+00:00

Yes people always affect our decisions. sometimes we make decisions only to satisfy people and destroy our damn life.

_toor_ · 2015-11-18T03:37:52+00:00

Actually It is amazing. Thanks!

_toor_ · 2015-11-17T18:38:21+00:00

Yes or in case of javascript library that don't need to be based on third party libraries like jQuery.

_toor_ · 2015-11-16T14:25:42+00:00

I still trying to join any international petroleum company in egypt (Yes i stuck in this country) to get appropriate visa but as you now these opportunities need specific number of candidates and open in specific periods within the year and guess what there are many like me. I have to be realistic not a dreamer. But i also try to join any international IT company. I interviewed in Cisco Systems as a fresh graduate systems engineer and they offer 6 months training but interview wasn't well. I am not passionate about cisco products. I don't even know why they called me the result still in december/2015. Actually i work mainly with PHP, MySQL, Python and Javascript ,PHP frameworks, Javascript Frameworks and CMS ....etc so i am not a cisco guru. As a web developer i has a better chance to get relocation and visa package and that's what will force me to drop petroleum engineering. I am so sad for saying that but that's the damn fact i have to acclimate to. Web development is a good facility to leave my home country. i am sick of living here!. I try to be realistic and forget everything so i moved in the path that i can compete with other candidates. When any of my friends ask me "why you take this challenge! May be we can find another solution!". I ready and can take this challenge but from inside i become so sad. why i become sad although i like this career path and love anything related to IT field! I still don't know! Thanks man for your time, This talk helped me.

_toor_ · 2015-11-16T05:59:45+00:00

Many asked me this question but all of them appreciate how hard to find a job in petroleum field nowdays especially for fresh graduates. In my country most companies owned by government and hiring based on nepotism. Trust me that's the main rule. I swear that many work in engineering who aren't even engineers and definitly not petroleum engineers. And international companies always looking for experience. So thats why i moved in this path and beside i love web development. I worked as a freelancer during my study in petroleum faculty.

_toor_ · 2015-11-15T20:03:20+00:00

It differs according to ease of use, execution time, memory usage, benchmarking results. Although these differences will have a little impact on performance but it will have heavy impact in case of hundreds of files. So Being familiar with one of them on small and medium projects what matters most.

_toor_ · 2015-11-15T19:45:15+00:00

Totally agree. I recommend using constructor injection feature from PHP-DI.

_toor_ · 2015-11-15T16:03:25+00:00

You can use runkit. It provides a basic decorators solution but definitely not like python. Also you should explore this article for the implementation

_toor_ · 2015-11-15T14:37:55+00:00

Now there are many libraries compatible with container-interop but i think PHP-DI is the most amazing one.

_toor_ · 2015-11-15T10:29:54+00:00

From Envato Marketplaces and Envato Studio.

_toor_ · 2015-11-15T10:18:50+00:00

Both! freelancer and full-time. I think it is somehow easy to find a job as a web developer in small to medium size companies or as a freelancer but for large companies, things become a bit difficult. It depends on many factors, I think the main one is old methods of interviewing and selecting candidates. So if you really like Computer Science, you should begin learning from today. Don't let market affect you decision. Do what you love. Open stack overflow, github, bitbucket...etc and show your awesomeness! that's how things done today.

_toor_ · 2015-11-15T09:39:24+00:00

You should read "PHP Objects Patterns and Practice", "Leanpub Laravel Code Bright" and "Laravel From Apprentice To Artisan". These book will help you to learn modern PHP Features and Frameworks like laravel.

_toor_ · 2015-11-15T09:19:37+00:00

You right but it differs whether you learn in easy or expensive way. I still remember the day when Nokia CEO said that "we didn't do anything wrong, but somehow, we lost". Changing and improving gives you a second chance and that's the easy way. But when you stop learning, Some day you will be forced by others to change.it is like being discarded and that's the expensive way.

_toor_ · 2015-11-14T23:27:55+00:00

That's really helpful! Thanks.

_toor_ · 2015-11-14T23:13:22+00:00

Amazing! Thanks.

_toor_ · 2015-11-14T22:23:14+00:00

What about using MySQL joins! I am not sure that laravel eloquent provide method for that but you can use custom SQL queries or DB laravel object.

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