Most professions have few elements that you can bring home. The more technical the field generally the less you can take home. But IT is one of those really cool fields where there is almost nothing that you can do in the office that you can’t do at home as well. This is good and …
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Do IT: Employment vs. Contracting in the US (W2 vs. 1099)
IT differs from many professions in the way that employment is handled. This is caused by many factors on both the employer and the employee side. In most careers and certainly in most jobs people work under the “employment” system. Here in the US this can be called W-2 employment because the tax form involved …
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Do IT: Breaking In – Volunteering
Much like interning volunteering can be a great way to get experience in IT both early on in your career when you are having problems getting those first few jobs as well as later on when you are well established and what to be able to demonstrate breadth and community but in this article we …
Do It: Breaking In – Interning
Often overlooked as a means of entering many industries is the practice of interning. While paid cooperative learning experiences and paid internships might relatively rare the more traditional unpaid internship is still widely available. Unpaid internships are hardly glamorous but they do offer a significant means of rapidly entering the IT profession. One time in …
April 3, 2007: Dog Food for Dinner
France’s Alstrom, maker of the famous TGV bullet trains, set a new rail speed record. Good stuff in the land of trains. Now if the US would just bolster its rail infrastructure to get a high speed San Diego to Vancouver run we would be well on our way to being a rail country again. …