* Posts by nick 77

2 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Feb 2013

Study of Brit students finds TXTING doesn't ruin your writing

nick 77

I've only met one person that had a txting disability

~5 years ago I was on Tier 2 computer support at a large international business machine corporation. After a new wave of hires only one person wrote tickets in txt. After speaking with him many times he tried to write normally. Apparently he never learned how to spell anything correctly in the wonderful U.S. public education system so he resorted to txting. He didn't last long.

DHS bigwig 'adamantly opposed' to degree fetishism

nick 77

I got a degree...

...in Geology in '95. Worked in IT ever since. Mostly non-security, catch all computer/server support/clueless boss support type of job. Now i'm finally working on certificates and a CIS degree to put on my resume so it doesn't get filtered out right away by HR people who look for certs/degrees but not relevant experience.