software job advice

[HAULN-SS]

Heh, now you tell me!

It's actually not that bad. I almost feel like I am being paid to be in school? A lot of the code I work on is coming from straight up nerd engineers, and CS grad students. It actually is kind of fun to tell them how terrible it is. Sometimes it's even in a consulting role..they just want to know how to fix it...so i don't even have to do the work!

The only downside is the fact that a lot of the code is written in FORTRAN and C/C++. This is not necessarily going to help me get my next job, but at the same time..i feel like if I was interviewing a guy who knew the ins and outs of memory allocation and pointers AND had an idea of how OO code is to be written, I'd hire him anyway.

Also, this job is going to be relocating to New Mexico to Los Alamos National Labs. I might go with it, because I feel like that will also be a resume differentiator later on in life, saying that you worked at the most awesome national labs.