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zeefo08 | 14 years ago | on: A 29-year-old on the difficulties of landing a first job

I think this guys hits it on the mark a bit: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3991574

Still, I pursued my degree with a future career in mind. I don't get the English majors. "I like books" doesn't ring of career prospects.

zeefo08 | 14 years ago | on: A 29-year-old on the difficulties of landing a first job

>I think there are plenty of people going through what this 29-yo is going through, and part of that might be because they have degrees in things like English, Art history, Philosophy

This. I have friends who majored in the humanities and are now working retail and restaurants. I feel bad for my friend with an English degree stuck working at Barnes and Noble but I also understand the flipside, which is if you're a Philosophy major right out of college with few or no internships, what precisely _are_ you qualified for?

I know I won the lottery with a CS degree in this economy (god how I hate that phrase) but of what real world use is a philosophy degree?

zeefo08 | 14 years ago | on: Innovative new Email-Client

Or Postbox for that matter.

zeefo08 | 14 years ago | on: No full-time offer handed after internship; do I have a shot?

If you REALLY want to be considered full time you should talk to your manager and let him know that's what you want. There are many reasons why they might not have extended you an offer, but at the very least you should speak to him find out why.

zeefo08 | 14 years ago | on: Unicode issue with Google+ notifications?

Yup. I noticed it too and filed a bug with them in the send feedback box. It would be good if everyone who notices this did the same.

zeefo08 | 14 years ago | on: Can a workplace block Google+?

All the urls base to plus.google.com, so I don't see why they couldn't, but I never really understood why a workplace would outright block facebook or anything else for that matter.

zeefo08 | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: Programming language communities on reddit

This doesn't show communities like r/iOSProgramming which get far more traffic than their language centric counterpart.