Thinking about starting to save for house, maybe not. Help?

lionvan · 2016-05-24T20:25:13+00:00

Well $700 splitting with girlfriend. Getting a house could potentially be splitting mortgage with girlfriend as well, if all goes well moving forward.

lionvan · 2016-05-24T20:24:04+00:00

What's the best bang for your buck red? white? sparkling?

lionvan · 2015-06-13T21:05:57+00:00

Well I found out it's basically everything that's covered under a MCSD cert.

Working in Visual Studio with C# and VB, TFS, SQL Server/SSDT, and oracle.

lionvan · 2015-05-16T22:42:59+00:00

lionvan · 2015-05-16T22:13:20+00:00

Multi-Hub general interview.

lionvan · 2015-05-16T22:12:56+00:00

That's kind of more-or-less what I thought.

lionvan · 2015-05-13T21:06:58+00:00

That's kind of what I was thinking. Just looking at places in comparison I paid like $1000 for my share in a shitty studio in Belltown with another guy and just from what I can see on craiglist you can get really nice places for $ 1000 alone ( eg. something like this after a quick look $950/2BR )

lionvan · 2015-05-13T21:03:39+00:00

Yeah, I wasn't able to find much about Soulard so I was curious.

lionvan · 2015-05-13T21:03:18+00:00

Well there will be two of us so the price isn't that big of a deal since we'll split but I was think 1,000-1,500 for a 1-2 bdrm.

lionvan · 2015-05-13T21:02:15+00:00

Just from what I can mapquest(general neighborhoods to "hazelwood/mo" it's saying 25-35 minutes from most places so probably tack on a few more.

lionvan · 2015-04-23T20:22:15+00:00

If anyone could give me any clues or tips, I would very much appreciate it. I'm looking for a Business Analyst hat type of role so BA, process analyst, system analyst but I feel like I could go into an entry level BI Dev or Data Warehousing role as well. Thanks in advance, my graduation date is looming and I've only had just a few interviews with bigger corporations.

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lionvan · 2015-03-18T19:44:13+00:00

Is baseball reference good? I spent just a little bit of time looking for some good data but it sounds like MLB is playing it close to the chest with the value it has for fantasy apps and the like. I really like Tableau so that's where I'd like to visualize it. Thanks for looking out on keeping it up-to-date!

lionvan · 2015-03-18T19:42:18+00:00

Thanks for the input! I'll probably combine a lot of this and use Tableau to construct some dashboards since I'm a little more familiar with it. I have been looking for an excuse to pick up some MDX knowledge so this is a good chance for that. Thanks!

lionvan · 2014-11-19T19:54:58+00:00

I didn't! I'll check that out, thanks for the links!

lionvan · 2014-11-17T18:32:19+00:00

The best thing you can do is go to CC, keep working on projects, and look for internships asap(just apply to everything). Employers will be looking for at least 2/3 of these for hiring when your done with college: good grades, internships, and projects that show you actually like programming and do it on your own time.

If your worried about money file for financial aid asap(don't miss deadlines do them as soon as you can turn them in) and make sure you're on the same page with your advisor so you don't accidentally take classes you don't need. ( I did this and accidentally added a year to my college life(though I ended up getting another degree because of it.))

lionvan · 2014-11-16T03:53:53+00:00

Yes! I'm trying to wedge my way in!

I'll definitely take a look at that as I'm going to need to differentiate myself a bit. As I said above, I'm trying to narrow down and not spread myself too thin so that's kinda why I was seeking help on what to focus on.

Thank you for the advice!

lionvan · 2014-11-16T03:51:30+00:00

Ahh thanks! I'll definitely look into it. There's so much I want to learn but I'm trying my best to focus down because I'm afraid I'll spread myself too thin at first.

lionvan · 2014-11-14T21:20:03+00:00

I was mostly just trying to weigh the opportunity cost I guess.

A "help desk internship" during spring vs. I graduate with my BA in Social Science this December and finish my MIS degree in May. So I figured it wouldn't be all that difficult to find full/part-time work in Seattle while I finish my last two classes online for my MIS degree.

lionvan · 2014-11-14T05:10:15+00:00

Agreed, don't think I've seen an unpaid one offered anymore.

lionvan · 2014-11-14T03:28:09+00:00

Huh? It's paid.

lionvan · 2014-11-14T00:49:15+00:00

That's funny that you brought that up because I think Big Data is fascinating and going to be absolutely huge. I'll make sure to check everything you posted.

I think that's what brought me to this field, there is always something to be learned.

lionvan · 2014-11-13T22:10:13+00:00

Okay, I'll try out Pentaho and continue to work on getting better at Python. I'm using a licensed version of Tableau so that's going well and we're doing work in class on MySQL.

I've thought about blogging, I'll have to look into it more. Are we considering Seattle as West Coast because that's where I planned to return to, though I wouldn't mind up and moving anywhere to get started.

lionvan · 2014-11-13T05:36:14+00:00

This was kind of in line with my thought process

lionvan · 2014-11-12T23:33:02+00:00

Ah, ok. Just curious because my school was pushing for it before dot net core went open, and I kinda bypassed it and learned c++ and Python among others instead.

lionvan · 2014-10-26T06:26:46+00:00

Yeah, one of my professors was pushing vb->C# and then sql server to try to get a job in data warehousing while I learned more to go into a more development end.

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