Job offer in SF....yes? no? hell no? (Pleasanton, Tracy: townhome, to buy)

[neutrino78x]

Some examples of famous sjsu students:

Stevie Nicks
Gordon Moore
Carl Guardino
Brian Krzanich
Ed Oates
Doug Clifford
Patrick Simmons
Finis Connor
Omid Kordestani (former vp of Google, now at Twitter)

[Chuck5000]

Stevie Nicks? Patrick Simmons? [[.....deep hit......]] Yeah, man. Dude, like, I wonder what the famous name list would look like for other top-tier schools? Maybe it would be longer, man. Just a bit. Heh heh. Heh. Heh. Heh.

[ssmaster]

On my list of great schools I listed eth Zurich. This that schools list of NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS
This is what an alumni list of a great school looks like.
My favorites Warner,Einstein ,Pauli, rontgen


Nobel Prize in Physics
1901 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (graduate)
1920 Charles-Edouard Guillaume (graduate)
1921 Albert Einstein (student and professor)
1943 Otto Stern (lecturer)
1945 Wolfgang Pauli (professor)
1952 Felix Bloch (graduate)
1986 Heinrich Rohrer (graduate)
1987 Georg Bednorz (graduate)
1987 Karl Alexander Müller (graduate)

Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1913 Alfred Werner (graduate)
1915 Richard Martin Willstätter (professor)
1918 Fritz Haber (attended for one semester)
1936 Peter Debye (professor)
1938 Richard Kuhn (professor)
1939 Leopold Ružička (professor)
1953 Hermann Staudinger (lecturer)
1975 Vladimir Prelog (professor)
1991 Richard Ernst (graduate and professor)
2002 Kurt Wüthrich (professor

Nobel Prize in Medicine
1950 Tadeus Reichstein (graduate)
1978 Werner Arber (graduate)
Other Nobel Laureates directly affiliated with the ETH Edit
1912 Nils Gustaf Dalén (in collaboration with Aurel Stodola)
1943 George de Hevesy
1945 Artturi Ilmari Virtanen (in collaboration with Georg Wiegner)
1954 Max Born (in collaboration with Adolf Hurwitz)
1964 Konrad E. Bloch (in collaboration with Leopold Ružička and Vladimir Prelog)
1968 Lars Onsager (in collaboration with Peter Debye and Erich Hückel)
1968 Har Gobind Khorana (in collaboration with Vladimir Prelog)
1969 Max Delbrück (in collaboration with Wolfgang Pauli)
1987 Jean-Marie Lehn

[mrsltd]

Originally Posted by neutrino78x

Eh, well, the mission of SJSU is more about preparing people for a job, as opposed to places like Stanford. Stanford not only offers bachelor degrees that are useful in industry, but is also a scientific research facility and a medical center.

Of course it is correct that Stanford -- which is definitely an example of a world renowned institution here in Silicon Valley -- is on a higher stratum than SJSU. But SJSU has a different mission, and it performs that mission very well.

Way to dance.

[neutrino78x]

Originally Posted by Chuck5000

Stevie Nicks? Patrick Simmons? [[.....deep hit......]] Yeah, man. Dude, like, I wonder what the famous name list would look like for other top-tier schools? Maybe it would be longer, man. Just a bit. Heh heh. Heh. Heh. Heh.

You don't like them? Fleetwood Mac is an awesome band, I have five albums from them.

[neutrino78x]

Originally Posted by ssmaster

On my list of great schools I listed eth Zurich. This that schools list of NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS
This is what an alumni list of a great school looks like.
My favorites Warner,Einstein ,Pauli, rontgen

Again...Zurich is in a different category. SJSU is a place to get job training. Places like Stanford and Zurich also offer the job training degree, but their main mission is the scientific research.

What SJSU does, it does very well. It doesn't have a particle accelerator or a radio telescope. But it does have an excellent engineering school.

And, Stanford is a feature of Silicon Valley.

[Perma Bear]

Originally Posted by neutrino78x

Again...Zurich is in a different category. SJSU is a place to get job training. Places like Stanford and Zurich also offer the job training degree, but their main mission is the scientific research.

What SJSU does, it does very well. It doesn't have a particle accelerator or a radio telescope. But it does have an excellent engineering school.

And, Stanford is a feature of Silicon Valley.

SJSU does not do that well compared to the Big 2 schools of the Bay Area.

[tonym9428]

I ended up taking the job and have been here for four months. Ended up renting a room for 1K/month. No real expenses besides that. I don't know how people can't survive here on even 50K or 60K, much less 90K. I've save a ton of money over the past four months. I sense that a lot of the people complaining about their 200K household incomes are living way outside of their means.

[tonym9428]

Also, bear in mind that my salary is lower as I only have four years of work experience.
https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/s...59_KO14,26.htm

[neutrino78x]

Originally Posted by tonym9428

I ended up taking the job and have been here for four months. Ended up renting a room for 1K/month. No real expenses besides that. I don't know how people can't survive here on even 50K or 60K, much less 90K. I've save a ton of money over the past four months. I sense that a lot of the people complaining about their 200K household incomes are living way outside of their means.

I agree. I just got a new assignment with my temp agency where I will make $14/hr, which is higher than my last assignment of $12/hr. It's a struggle, but I can live here and comfortably pay rent. I live within my means as a fiscal conservative. So it is frustrating to hear all these complaints from people who make five or ten times what I make.

Although the bigger factor in their complaint is simply that they can't afford specifically a "Single Family Home in an Excellent School District". According to them, if you can't afford to do that in a given area, that means that if you live there, you're living in poverty. They say it has to be "family size" or it doesn't count as living here. Apparently, most people who live in London and Paris are living in poverty, according to the naysayers, as most can't afford a SFH there, either. Most live in a "flat", the European term for "apartment" or "condo".