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General discussion / Re: Things that make you go What the F**k?
« on: March 04, 2021, 11:54:02 AM »
Surely the Who’s Been Cancelled?? thread at the moment should be worthy of a mention on here?
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Interesting read in the IN about the young lad from Watty Grahams, Ciaran McCloy;
https://www.irishnews.com/sport/gaafootball/2021/02/15/news/ciaran-mccloy-2220581/
It's a pretty common story in Ireland sadly as we culturally have an unhealthy relationship with alcohol especially at too young of an age. Most come through those years unscathed but a lot don't.
Not sure tbh, but drugs are everywhere now, it wasn't like back in my younger days, I listen to younger lads at work(from all over rural and towns) talk about cocaine as if its a daily normal occurrence, id be worried that it will be accepted by the next generation as normal behaviour
Would you say it's a more visible problem in towns and cities like Derry or Belfast? Maghera is obviously a town too, but I would say there are no shortage of drugs in rural areas and rural GAA clubs - but it possibly wouldn't be as evident.
I had a similar journey in my late teens early 20s, still live with it somewhat. Its a major problem, drugs is a growing monster
Hi folks.
I'm coming to the end of a 3 year part time masters course in Software development, to enable me to change careers. I work for a large firm in Belfast and spoke with my current employer about changing roles from an operations type role to a dev role. I was told that this would be supported but has recently been pulled and told that the role available would be more a BA type role, while keeping some of my own current responsibilities. My initial thoughts are that this is not the way to go as I am more interesting in dev/coding and want to gain experience here ASAP. They are selling the fact that I would be able to keep my current salary and would gain more exposure to the dev team and therefore help a transition in 12-18 months if I decided to go that way. Wondering what the starting salary for junior devs would be if anyone has any info that would be helpful, so I can weigh up my options?
Thanks
Not sure on the junior dev salary in Belfast but you'd be wasting 12-18 months of your career sticking with the role they offered. You need to be writing code in real world delivery/best practice rather than doing coding problems and tutorials.
Yeah - I was thinking this myself, I am really keen to start learning in a professional setting as soon as possible, and as Ethan mentioned I really want to find a role that will help develop my skills.
Is there anywhere that you and Ethan would avoid in terms of churning out the same stuff week in week out? Also, anywhere you would recommend for a strong learning and development culture?
On another topic, any React-Native developers on here? I am trying to create an app which will use some image processing, I was going to use Open CV, but this requires Native Modules and the code to to written in Objective-C, feel like I have bitten off more than I can chew for my final project.
Hi folks.
I'm coming to the end of a 3 year part time masters course in Software development, to enable me to change careers. I work for a large firm in Belfast and spoke with my current employer about changing roles from an operations type role to a dev role. I was told that this would be supported but has recently been pulled and told that the role available would be more a BA type role, while keeping some of my own current responsibilities. My initial thoughts are that this is not the way to go as I am more interesting in dev/coding and want to gain experience here ASAP. They are selling the fact that I would be able to keep my current salary and would gain more exposure to the dev team and therefore help a transition in 12-18 months if I decided to go that way. Wondering what the starting salary for junior devs would be if anyone has any info that would be helpful, so I can weigh up my options?
Thanks
As an aside, does anyone spend half their time on imdb these days when watching somethin?
Its as much "what was yer man in" as watchin the actual series/film....damm you imdb to hell
If it was Shane Lowry with the same achievements he’d be the best ever but because it’s McIlroy people don’t like to admit that he’s the best Irish sportsperson.