Are there any IT graduates on WP?

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Hi people. My name?s Matthew, I?m 21 and have just graduated from the University of Leeds with a degree in IT. I was just wondering if there were any IT graduates on WP, who also have aspergers.

Hi
I gradutated 5 years ago from Ålborg uni and I am currently working in Foulum

Hi!

I graduated in December of 2011 with an IT degree, in the US.

Working adult, though, 31 at the time. Thought the degree was great, but, finding a job was a bit difficult, because it had to be something paying better than the one I was in at the time, where I'd been for over a decade. Loads of work out there, but, either for recent graduates or someone with A LOT of experience... an inbetweener like me wasn't exactly the preferred one.

Oh right I see. I?ve been given a job as part of a graduate scheme. So i?m quite lucky, but I have been rejected before for things like industrial placements. So I know how it feels to be rejected.

That's great.
~nodding~ I'm more familiar with rejection than I'd like to admit.
I was actually job searching for about 7 years... most I was struck because my lack of degree, though.

Sometimes, you get rejected because you don?t have a lot of experience. However, you need to have had experience in order to get work experience, which I think is stupid. So I spend some of my spare time just practicing my programming.

Right you are, and a great approach! That's the type of thing I did before getting my last job, I could show off those skills.

But, unfortunately, this time around, I had a family to support. I worked 40 hours a week, spent about 12 hours in the car with my commute, after cooking dinner or helping my kids with any english-related homework... then worked freelancing gigs before bed.
I had the interest to practice, but, just could not make the time. It was pretty frustrating.

I have a bachelor's degree in computer engineering, and I'm starting my master's degree this fall.

Is your Master's in computer engineering, or close, too?

I started a master's, but, in Applied Analytics. Interesting stuff. Dropped it for now, because it doesn't directly relate to what I'm currently doing at work.

It's in computer engineering. I also applied for industrial economics and technology management, but computer engineering still seemed more interesting.

A good advice is to do stuff public. Share your projects on GitHub, partake in open-source projects, partake in software development sites ( like StackOverflow. ) This can be very helpful if you get recognition. I have gotten contacted by companies ( well one, actually ) simply because of my Github and linkedIn. I also think it helps a lot to put these on your resume.

As for the original question :
I have a bachelors degree in game development from Oslo, Norway. It sounds cool, and it was a lot of fun. But I kinda wished I had taken something more computer science stuff. I'm currently trying to read up on the CS stuff I should know, so hopefully the decision won't hurt me too bad.

I got a non traditional degree in Compter Science & Statistics 20 years ago. I had burned out on COBOL after doing Y2K and took early retirement but just started working again eight months ago. Had been practicing and learning Javascript on a client-only website provided by my ISP at no additional charge. When I was interviewed for the job I have now, my boss ran one of my pages relevent to the industry and my answer was only one cent off (I used the ceiling function rather than round).

Our software is being converted into something web based so my days as a COBOL programmer are numbered--hopefully the count is several hundred.

I got a non traditional degree in Computer Science & Statistics 20 years ago. I had burned out on COBOL after doing Y2K and took early retirement but just started working again eight months ago. Had been practicing and learning Javascript on a client-only website provided by my ISP at no additional charge. When I was interviewed for the job I have now, my boss ran one of my pages relevent to the industry and my answer was only one cent off (I used the ceiling function rather than round).

Our software is being converted into something web based so my days as a COBOL programmer are numbered--hopefully the count is several hundred.