Marcus Perez

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since July 14, 1999

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July 14, 1999, on Career Guide for Engineers and Computer Scientists:
Straight out of high school, I got a technical degree (AAS) in Computer Drafting Technology. The area in which I lived at that time had a petrochemical driven economy so with all the contractors serving the plants and refineries in the area, a job was supposed to be easy to find. That didn't happen and as fate would have it, I got a job doing GIS work for a local governmental entity and loved it. While at the governmental entity, I went back to school full-time assuming the completion of at BS would insure a comfortable living. At work, I spent extra time learning software and programming languages of other GIS industry desktop packages because I enjoyed the work and was good at it. However, I never finished the degree (I am maybe 40 hours away). Nevertheless, I was able to find decent jobs working contract labor and working with consulting firms. Along the way, I worked with many highly paid "GIS-educated" individuals whose abilities left much too be desired. In fact, most of the ti...