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How am i going to land a summer job?

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LW07

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Alright, i turn 18 in march and graduate high school in may, and I got college coming up in fall. And i hear its hard to land a summer job due to the current economy.

So how am i going to get one? I want something besides working at McDonalds, and even that is hard to get a job for, as i found out last May. I only got a call from them a month after i applied, which by that time i had lost interest in a job and turned them down. The only job i was able to get really fast was a telemarketer, which i hated and quit in 3 days.

So, how am i going to land a summer job?
 
take an paid/unpaid summer internship related to your college major/future career
get a head start on your resume
 
Even if it is a shit job like a telemarketer.. it is a summer job. It only lasts a few months. Take what you can get that gets you the most money (either starts the earliest or pays the most), or what gets you good experience.
 
Originally posted by: LW07
I want to major in computer science or whatever involves networking.
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Anandtech is full of IT people (not me though). I'm sure a lot people can give you advice regarding that field.

I say you call up a company in your area and ask if you can have a office visit or interview/survey regarding the job. Just show some passion and sell yourself a bit to the company.

Treat it as a job interview then after your 1st year in college, you can go back for a real internship, etc etc.
 
Make a popular website and put google adsense on it.

Though seriously, that is an option if you really can't find a job. If you are at home all day you'll have tons of time on your hands to get something like this done.

I'd check with the high school see if they got any jobs to cleanup the school over the summer, that was my summer job and was easy to get. Basically it was taking gum off from under desks, helping to strip/wax the floors etc... not the funnest, but was ok, and better then working at mcdonalds. I also had an awesome boss, we'd be in the lunchroom for like 1 hour per break. One time our lunch break overlapped with our afternoon break. We basically worked for like half an hour that afternoon lol.
 
Originally posted by: LW07
I want to major in computer science or whatever involves networking.
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There's Management Information Systems (MIS), Computer Science (CS), Computer Engineering (CPE or CE) which all relate to networking in different ways. I don't know too much about MIS, but this is what I gather:

MIS leads more into Information Technology (IT) type of work.
CS gets you into programming more focused at application/web levels (higher), can also touch on lower-level programming and software development ideas, and algorithms.
CPE gets you into programming at low levels (hardware interfacing) up to high levels (like CS) or also can lead you into more Electrical Engineering (EE) types of work like circuit design.

Also, networking can mean you want to work in developing new protocols for certain applications (like one for NASA to send data through space -- needs LOTS of error correction and delay tolerances). Research the TCP/IP stack and the OSI model for more info.
It can also mean you want to develop software on networked devices which now encompasses many products - phone networks, networking equipment like switches/routers, internal device buses, external device buses like USB, etc.
You might also mean you want to be in an IT-like job where you setup the networks and maintain them using hardware that you generally wouldn't develop yourself.

I know this isn't what you asked for, but I hope this at least gets you to think more about what you'd be interested in. It can be much easier to get into a school with a certain major, and much more difficult to switch majors when you're already in.

There are also tons more areas you can go into through concentrations or grad school, so I guess the first thing you should decide is if you want skills dealing with configuring and maintaining networks for a company/group (MIS), programming at a high level or low level and like math/algorithms (CS), typically programming at a lower level or circuit design (CPE), or want to develop network protocols (CPE or CS).
 
You had a job, but quit. You got an offer for another job, but turned it down.

Beggars can't be choosers.
 
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