A few weeks ago I was asked by my alma matter if they could do an interview on me about my career for the "Alumni Spotlight" feature of the newsletter.
What the fuck I thought.
Why not?
If it wasn't' for good ole Tech U, I wouldn't have this job.
Let them send their little geeky college student or some old hag from the Career Services over to interview me. So I gave the number on the letter a call and setup a time for later on this afternoon. They said that someone named David Crest will be over shortly to interview.
The young woman on the other end of the phone thanked me for taking the time out of my busy schedule for the interview and thanked me for giving back to Tech U.
I listened to her bullshit and hung up the phone.
Now what the fuck am I going to tell Mr. Crest about my career? Most of the time when I talk about metadata, XML, or anything work related their eyes glaze over with boredom. I can't blame them because this shit bores the living hell out of me sometimes too.
I'm thinking what I can tell him about my career.
Graduated from Tech U with a 2.7 GPA.
Luckily I got hired here.
After 2 years of working my ass off, I became project manager.
I guess that's worth writing about.
Anyway, I guess that's enough to tell him.
I decided to take an half a day and meet Mr. Crest at "The Java Shop", the local café near my office. It's your typical Starbuckish coffee shop catering to the geeks and next dot.com millionaires hoping they're working for the next Google or Facebook.
When I was at Tech U, my professor advised us to stay away from the any dot.com wannabes and get a job with a real company.
Best advice that I got from Tech U professors. When I graduated I was offered one of two jobs — a shirt and tie, straight laced 9 to 5 corporate gigs or one of those fly by night dot.com companies with the fuss table in the office.
I made the right choice. The dot.com company failed within two years and broke the dreams of all those Google wannabees. I'm still gainfully employed.
"Hi, I'm Mr. Crest" a young man said.
"You must be David from Tech U...You're not what I expected, especially to be named David."
"What were you expecting some pimply-faced college kid?" he replied.
"No I was hoping you were some young impressionable slut I could take home to see if my CPU can fits snuggly in your assboard?" I replied.
"You got jokes," David said as he laughed!