Advice on Portland - TridenT Edition

[TurtleCrusher]

The Portland AREA is great, but Portland itself is just as annoying as the show. Give me somewhere like Forest Grove or Newberg and I'd be happy.

You've gotta be fucking kidding me. Those cities are god awful and no different than any other small town. Forest grove? You know what reminds me of forest grove? Goshen Indiana, sans the snow. Newberg? What?

You only live in those places if you've got a free home or you specifically work there. There's NOTHING OUT THERE. I've had some friends on those cities and have worked there many times. I'll take SE Portland over Forest Grove and Newberg combined by about a million to 1 ratio.

 

[TurtleCrusher]

Thanks for help.

Well, it would be nice but I don't have anyone who could do that.

I could remove it. My last revision is: "I am a recent college graduate looking for a full-time software development job in Portland, Oregon. Ideal work would require that I am constantly learning and evolving to face new challenges. Some of my strengths are having a strong mathematical background, ability to improvise, performance under pressure, and contagious enthusiasm."

The resume is based off of someone I know. I can change it but it didn't seem like an issue... It looks ugly your way with the format I had.

I don't have much... I can add an engineer contest win I had with a team, that I was president and founder of a club (it didn't go anywhere due to budget constraints but that's something I can bring up when asked), was Dean's list before UW... but I can't remember much else. I've done more and been in more clubs but no big leadership roles in those. (It would take too long on the resume to explain what I did, at least) Dance is a major activity that I do (if it wasn't obvious from the volunteer activity...) and is a huge part of my life. (It basically dictates who I meet and what friends I make. I've spent all this summer doing that...)

I didn't really see the tense change but I guess you're talking about how it says "ing" rather than "ed" at the end of some words. Troubleshooted just looks awkward. I can add, "I was troubleshooting ..."

Ok. Added something to volunteering part too. (Said I was a public face for the organization, which was very true. I got interviewed, was contacted by people to find out more about the organization, and was a friendly face that talked to new people who showed up to the dance)

Space is kind of at a premium on that version with the wall of text classwork at the bottom. Maybe this new version will be more up your alley.

It is quite literally there for keyword searches... :whiste: :biggrin: You never know with companies whether it will get through to management if it doesn't trigger the keyword searches and what they'll be lookin' for.

Revised with your thoughts in mind. I could remove the summary section and just have more space... or remove the summary and add a revised classwork section. http://www.filedropper.com/redactedinforesume_1

Honestly, if you don't know how to keep tense consistent and how to write a flowing but structured message... Your writing professors should be ashamed of themselves.

Also if you are a single person and say you have to live on your own, enjoy paying out the ass for a 1 bedroom apartment anywhere in town. A two bedroom is usually the same price and you can generally find a chill roommate to cut your costs in half.

 

[TridenT]

Honestly, if you don't know how to keep tense consistent and how to write a flowing but structured message... Your writing professors should be ashamed of themselves.

Also if you are a single person and say you have to live on your own, enjoy paying out the ass for a 1 bedroom apartment anywhere in town. A two bedroom is usually the same price and you can generally find a chill roommate to cut your costs in half.

There's implied subject and tense when I read it... but apparently not for some. So, whatev.

It's just not an option for me.

 

[bearxor]

I've been to Portland.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Why didn't you stay in a place you knew you could get a job for at least a few years to build experience? Leaving and making your employment prospects harder because you "don't want to live in Seattle" is a pretty stupid reason. Without a change in your line of thinking very soon you will run into a lot of difficulty. Take a hard look at yourself and understand what it means to be an adult and responsible for yourself.

I have to agree here. The best approach would've been to build up some work experience in Seattle for a few years and THEN move to Portland (or elsewhere) once you had gotten some valuable work experience.

At any rate, good luck TridenT. I hope it works out for you and for your own sake, I hope you adjust your attitude and stop being so negative and nitpicky about everything. You remind me of a woman.

 

[dainthomas]

You've gotta be fucking kidding me. Those cities are god awful and no different than any other small town. Forest grove? You know what reminds me of forest grove? Goshen Indiana, sans the snow. Newberg? What?

You only live in those places if you've got a free home or you specifically work there. There's NOTHING OUT THERE. I've had some friends on those cities and have worked there many times. I'll take SE Portland over Forest Grove and Newberg combined by about a million to 1 ratio.

You're out of your mind. SE Portland is infested with annoying hipsters and/or meth heads depending on the neighborhood. North Portland is even worse. People like Portland because of the fantastic outdoor activities due to the proximity of the coast and the mountains. Which those two places have.

 

[slugg]

Looking at your resume, I'd be surprised if you could pass even the most basic of screening interviews. Maybe I'm wrong, but again, I'm basing that on your resume.

 

[clamum]

Thank the lord. According to Google Maps, Portland is a little over 2,300 miles from here. I bid you well sir.

 

[AreaCode707]

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[Atomic Playboy]

You're out of your mind. SE Portland is infested with annoying hipsters and/or meth heads depending on the neighborhood. North Portland is even worse. People like Portland because of the fantastic outdoor activities due to the proximity of the coast and the mountains. Which those two places have.

If your argument is to be believed, we'd expect the population of Forest Grove or Newberg to be larger than that of Southeast Portland or North Portland, which they clearly aren't. So this idea that people like Portland only because of the fantastic outdoor activities due to the proximity of the coast and the mountains must be flawed. There must be other aspects of life in Portland that appeal to people which aren't shared with Forest Grove or Newberg which would explain the wild disparity in populations.

 

[TridenT]

If your argument is to be believed, we'd expect the population of Forest Grove or Newberg to be larger than that of Southeast Portland or North Portland, which they clearly aren't. So this idea that people like Portland only because of the fantastic outdoor activities due to the proximity of the coast and the mountains must be flawed. There must be other aspects of life in Portland that appeal to people which aren't shared with Forest Grove or Newberg which would explain the wild disparity in populations.

The outdoors argument doesn't hold much water. Most people I know in Portland don't frequent the outdoors regions more than once or twice a year.

 

[K1052]

The outdoors argument doesn't hold much water. Most people I know in Portland don't frequent the outdoors regions more than once or twice a year.

Yet I hear great things about the huge bear population there.

 

[zinfamous]

Yet I hear great things about the huge bear population there.

 

[dainthomas]

If your argument is to be believed, we'd expect the population of Forest Grove or Newberg to be larger than that of Southeast Portland or North Portland, which they clearly aren't. So this idea that people like Portland only because of the fantastic outdoor activities due to the proximity of the coast and the mountains must be flawed. There must be other aspects of life in Portland that appeal to people which aren't shared with Forest Grove or Newberg which would explain the wild disparity in populations.

Probably proximity to jobs. Remove that factor, and living within the city limits of Portland loses much of its appeal.

But hey, if someone enjoys being surrounded by long unkempt hipster-beard wearing d-bags blowing red lights on their fixies or having their car windows smashed by tweakers, then more power to them.

 

[ThinClient]

Dear god, please take your sickness somewhere else.

 

[K1052]

I'm just suggesting he check out the local wildlife.

Dear god, please take your sickness somewhere else.

His backup is SF...no thanks, we have enough unrealistic over-entitled younger males with no job experience who think they should be making 150K a year plus in their first or second job.

 

[TridenT]

Dear god, please take your sickness somewhere else.

Bitch, I've lived in the PDX metro for over 2 years and I made regular trips down there for 3.5 years after I moved away.

I Never Left And You'll Never Get Rid Of Me

 

[TurtleCrusher]

Probably proximity to jobs. Remove that factor, and living within the city limits of Portland loses much of its appeal.

But hey, if someone enjoys being surrounded by long unkempt hipster-beard wearing d-bags blowing red lights on their fixies or having their car windows smashed by tweakers, then more power to them.

Unless you lived in the rough part of St. Johns (where I grew up in N Portland) or literally on felony flats, Portland is a VERY nice city to live in. If just the thought of seeing people different than you disgusts you, then YOU belong in the boonies. Either that or you have a very skewed, black and white outlook on Portland. Hipsters are everywhere. Maybe you've never spent some time in Newberg but that's the mecca of hipsters per capita. The downtown part is infested with them.

The places you mentioned are awful places to live in if you do any sort of socializing.

 

[TridenT]

Someone sent me a link to reddit that has a bunch of software dev positions open in the Portland area. Over 100 different companies that are hiring in August.

I'm trying to go through the entire list but it takes time and I'm feeling very drained right now. (I have a lot to do and little energy)

 

[TurtleCrusher]

Someone sent me a link to reddit that has a bunch of software dev positions open in the Portland area. Over 100 different companies that are hiring in August.

I'm trying to go through the entire list but it takes time and I'm feeling very drained right now. (I have a lot to do and little energy)

And here I am thinking of making a career move to work IT in Seattle...

 

[ThinClient]

Bitch, I've lived in the PDX metro for over 2 years and I made regular trips down there for 3.5 years after I moved away.

I Never Left And You'll Never Get Rid Of Me

literally no one wants you, here or anywhere else

 

[T9D]

Seriously almost the entire east side is crap. Full of weirdos and its mostly just an ugly flat grid over there, loads of traffic, and all the cheap housing (except a couple spots). I hate ever having to even visit on that side for any reason. It's where all the annoying kids go to live right of high school and where they stay into there 30's because they never grew up. And the people that never shut up and have to be activists on everything, and half them live off the government, and why you see them walking around at all times of the day and week, Yeah you know the kind of people.

 

[PowerEngineer]

Bitch, I've lived in the PDX metro for over 2 years and I made regular trips down there for 3.5 years after I moved away.

Based on all the nice things you had to say Portland when you were here, this latest move of yours certainly comes as a surprise. I suppose we can look forward to a resumption of your complaints about the rain, the people, the traffic... :\

 

[TridenT]

Based on all the nice things you had to say Portland when you were here, this latest move of yours certainly comes as a surprise. I suppose we can look forward to a resumption of your complaints about the rain, the people, the traffic... :\

Eh, the people are not the worst. The traffic is bad and the constant wet ground is really annoying. (And draining) However, if I had to choose between smouldering heat and annoying rain... I'm choosing rain. I won't die in the rain, I could die in the heat.

Seriously almost the entire east side is crap. Full of weirdos and its mostly just an ugly flat grid over there, loads of traffic, and all the cheap housing (except a couple spots). I hate ever having to even visit on that side for any reason. It's where all the annoying kids go to live right of high school and where they stay into there 30's because they never grew up. And the people that never shut up and have to be activists on everything, and half them live off the government, and why you see them walking around at all times of the day and week, Yeah you know the kind of people.

Yeah, almost the whole thing. There's not much on that side that I like but it's where a lot of people I know live. (Kind of hard to not live on that side considering the west side is so small and expensive unless you go into suburbia)

And here I am thinking of making a career move to work IT in Seattle...

Seattle is way better for tech. The population in the metro is 1.5x the size, the pop density in Seattle is 2x, and the amount of tech companies is huge. (Or just large companies...) It's much better for getting gainful employment. However, I hated it because the people were awful.

 

[TridenT]

What is a good example of a coding sample for a software and/or web developer?