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It would give her a distinct edge in many jobs in that area. I don't know why some people are so appalled by that idea or in such denial that being bilingual (Spanish and English) in a city that is over 60 percent Latino would give someone a distinct edge when it comes to most jobs.
It's not an insult to anyone.
Being bilingual in San Antonio is not a distinct edge at all. There is an abundance of bilingual people in San Antonio. My wife is a doctor who has worked on the near westside of San Antonio. She is hispanic and speaks very little Spanish and communicated in English without a problem to her patients. Your assumptions are just not true and you have people living in San Antonio telling you that.
The OP's boyfriends degree will have an edge that San Antonio is trying hard and slowly succeeding at attracting more IT professionals and his MIS degree fits in to that catageoy. Have your boyfriend contact Tech Bloc and Geekdom OP.
Being bilingual in San Antonio is not a distinct edge at all. There is an abundance of bilingual people in San Antonio. My wife is a doctor who has worked on the near westside of San Antonio. She is hispanic and speaks very little Spanish and communicated in English without a problem to her patients. Your assumptions are just not true and you have people living in San Antonio telling you that.
The OP's boyfriends degree will have an edge that San Antonio is trying hard and slowly succeeding at attracting more IT professionals and his MIS degree fits in to that catageoy. Have your boyfriend contact Tech Bloc and Geekdom OP.
Well SA truly has much more to do there than Austin, and in all honesty the parks (not just the riverwalk) are much nicer too. Austin just doesn't seem to take care of anything. Where I come from the county department would mow the ditches twice a year. In Austin I don't think they ever mow anything here, including the surrounding counties.
We plan on going to SA tomorrow, do you have any suggestions on places to eat (away from the riverwalk) and maybe some nice trails to walk (other than the riverwalk)?
We really think that we will be way more successful in SA than Austin, because Austin is just so saturated for jobs and there just isn't enough good jobs in Austin and we know we aren't the only ones looking to move.
Austin doesn't have a pro football team because they have the UT Longhorns. Any pro football team in Austin would have trouble competing with the fan loyalty the Longhorns have. They're so popular they were able to get their own cable channel, The Longhorn Network.
Austin doesn't have a pro football team because they have the UT Longhorns. Any pro football team in Austin would have trouble competing with the fan loyalty the Longhorns have. They're so popular they were able to get their own cable channel, The Longhorn Network.
You would have the same issue in Columbus as they have 'The' Ohio State Buckeyes, but Columbus also has the Blue Jackets. Don't know why Austin has never tried to do something similar.
This is the exact kind of attitude people have in Austin. These people act like Austin is the Premiere city of Texas and that no other city will do. But how dare anyone say anything bad about their precious city, oh my. Oh our city has so much recreation to do, yeah if you like hiking on unmarked, unpaved and need a machete to walk through the trails then its 'A' okay.
1. When is the last time you have been on the job market to look for the job?
2. When is the last time you walked by any creek in Texas or better yet any medians or roadways?
3. When is the last time you walked on any trails other than the ones around Zilker park?
4. Why does the city have low wages and high cost of living? (Even other long term residents have told us that Austin has low wages, so your not that special)
5. Why are long term residents considering moving if Austin is so great?
6. Why do you think Austin is all that great? Especially when other cities are 100 times better than Austin, especially if you include the nation.
7. Just because people move here doesn't mean its a booming city (ie its just not about numbers)?
8. If you were honest, you would say that there isn't much to do at all here wouldn't you? What city has so few entertainment options, even Columbus has a pro sports team. 3 major stadiums. 2 major successful malls, what does Austin have?
To elaborate some more, if I had to guess you haven't been on the job market lately and you have no idea what it is like jobs are extremely competitive, I had one interviewer tell me they had over 200 applicants for ONE position.
On the trash part, I have a place where I walk during my lunch break everyday, and it has trash all along the road that has been there for weeks and no one has picked it up, we are paying for clean streets and yet the city isn't taking care of its streets. The weeds in the Median are at least 8' tall, doesn't Austin take care of its city????????????? There is trash in the creeks, that no one cleans. Very few asphalt or concrete trails to walk on and the asphalt trails are either washed out in places or it is in such disrepair and hard to walk on. The creek behind Mary Moore park is full of trash the shelter will normally have tons of trash in them, there is graffiti everywhere. There are homeless people that stay at Mary Moore park and have everything they own in their cars and they spread it out all over there.
I seen that you never mentioned anything about the low wage paying jobs here and the high cost of living, so you must acknowledge that part is true. We have many friends that have lived in Austin for over 20 years who acknowledge that the jobs here are low paying, they plan on moving because it is getting too expensive even for them. So if they are leaving then what makes you so special?
Btw, we know for a fact that SA takes care of their parks and has more concrete or Asphalt trails than Austin does, so we can definitely say that SA is way better in that department, and their parks are 50 times better, how can Austin even think they can compete with the River Walk? (which is about 20 miles long)
No missy your attitude (and many other Austin people), low wages and high cost of living is why newcomers aren't staying.
OP, having read all of your posts, I have to say that attitude is, indeed, the problem, but you're looking at it from the wrong direction. If you come across in interviews or on the job or attempting to socialize or interact with people in person the way you do here, I can absolutely understand why you're having issues, and I suspect you will have the same issues in San Antonio.
As a senior level software engineer, who has been offered lead and architect roles.. let me just be unequivocal about this
For you guys' situation, it will objectively come down to 2 main things, FIRST:
1. Do you have your education?
2. Do you have the required skill set?
It matters actually less about personality, if you know 100 languages fluently, are from out of state(but I can understand/see why and how Austin may be harder to break into(for any job not just tech) due to UT being the main filter school there, THAN if you actually have the ability to do the job.
For an IT based position meaning: a Junior level, IT specialist, support, programmer, etc... he won't be starting as a DBA just an FYI(but i'm assuming you already knew that)
They will REALLY, REALLY be more interested in those two points I put out and the skills will be more direct(you mentioned he already took a test and got a 100% which is great, but many skills test can be actually tested/asked "conversationally' as it's expected that you should be able to answer it pretty quickly):
1. What is the difference between a LEFT JOIN and a FULL OUTER JOIN?
2. What is UNION used for?
3. Why are Primary Key and Foreign Keys important?
4. Explain the basic LOGIC of an IF, THEN, ELSE statement...
5. Maybe one more simple one like code/explain the logic of a "for" or "while" loop
6. Have you had experience with MY SQL, SQL Server, or an ORACLE db? Can you tell the difference? Is there a difference?
7. What is a Web Service? (REST, SOAP, etc) What is its purpose?
These are honestly pretty "easy" questions that he should be able to ACE "on the spot"... if he can do those and just comes off as friendly, good humored, and affable... there's no reason he won't be able to get a job in the 55-60k range PLUS benefits... even in San Antonio... The salary in SA for IT will be lower though just a heads up... especially for an entry/junior level
It will be more so "skill based" in a bigger and "less saturated" city.
To the before posters, I'm sorry but the Austin market IS INDEED "somewhat" saturated... I myself as senior level coming from SMU with ~5+ years experience from a big govt job(with TS clearance and ID) would even have a "not easy" time breaking in... I do have connections though to be honest (lol)... but even then, it's not "easy" in Austin and I would most likely take a pay cut ... Google and Facebook are VERY HARD to get in to if you didn't know yet...
Dell prefers C++ from my understanding and pays excellent, but C++ is incredibly difficult... it makes Java/C# look elementary (IMO)
IBM will want an OOP skill which i don't believe she mentioned
ORACLE will want PL/SQL... but that's more plausible with his IS background.. but PL/SQL is very difficult at first
The startupss and bank industry jobs will favor experience more and a well rounded "full stack" skill set, and preferrably with an OOP (Java/C#) background.. they may also prefer some JS (JQuery, Angular come to mind)
So i'm not even sure how the skill set would match as the market would already be tough and (honestly) catered to UT grads... which has a very good CS program anyways lol. And let's not discount the other univesities in the area that filter to those jobs or seasoned professionals who may be trying to get those jobs too...?
It isn't exactly "easy' to land it in Austin lol
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Being bilingual in San Antonio is not a distinct edge at all. There is an abundance of bilingual people in San Antonio. My wife is a doctor who has worked on the near westside of San Antonio. She is hispanic and speaks very little Spanish and communicated in English without a problem to her patients. Your assumptions are just not true and you have people living in San Antonio telling you that.
The OP's boyfriends degree will have an edge that San Antonio is trying hard and slowly succeeding at attracting more IT professionals and his MIS degree fits in to that catageoy. Have your boyfriend contact Tech Bloc and Geekdom OP.
Yes its very interesting how outsiders perceive it. I would say San Antonio is the least spanish speaking city in Texas, even in Austin spanish is spoken more. Spanglish is a whole nother story.
As a senior level software engineer, who has been offered lead and architect roles.. let me just be unequivocal about this
For you guys' situation, it will objectively come down to 2 main things, FIRST:
1. Do you have your education?
2. Do you have the required skill set?
It matters actually less about personality, if you know 100 languages fluently, are from out of state(but I can understand/see why and how Austin may be harder to break into(for any job not just tech) due to UT being the main filter school there, THAN if you actually have the ability to do the job.
For an IT based position meaning: a Junior level, IT specialist, support, programmer, etc... he won't be starting as a DBA just an FYI(but i'm assuming you already knew that)
They will REALLY, REALLY be more interested in those two points I put out and the skills will be more direct(you mentioned he already took a test and got a 100% which is great, but many skills test can be actually tested/asked "conversationally' as it's expected that you should be able to answer it pretty quickly):
1. What is the difference between a LEFT JOIN and a FULL OUTER JOIN?
2. What is UNION used for?
3. Why are Primary Key and Foreign Keys important?
4. Explain the basic LOGIC of an IF, THEN, ELSE statement...
5. Maybe one more simple one like code/explain the logic of a "for" or "while" loop
6. Have you had experience with MY SQL, SQL Server, or an ORACLE db? Can you tell the difference? Is there a difference?
7. What is a Web Service? (REST, SOAP, etc) What is its purpose?
These are honestly pretty "easy" questions that he should be able to ACE "on the spot"... if he can do those and just comes off as friendly, good humored, and affable... there's no reason he won't be able to get a job in the 55-60k range PLUS benefits... even in San Antonio... The salary in SA for IT will be lower though just a heads up... especially for an entry/junior level
It will be more so "skill based" in a bigger and "less saturated" city.
To the before posters, I'm sorry but the Austin market IS INDEED "somewhat" saturated... I myself as senior level coming from SMU with ~5+ years experience from a big govt job(with TS clearance and ID) would even have a "not easy" time breaking in... I do have connections though to be honest (lol)... but even then, it's not "easy" in Austin and I would most likely take a pay cut ... Google and Facebook are VERY HARD to get in to if you didn't know yet...
Dell prefers C++ from my understanding and pays excellent, but C++ is incredibly difficult... it makes Java/C# look elementary (IMO)
IBM will want an OOP skill which i don't believe she mentioned
ORACLE will want PL/SQL... but that's more plausible with his IS background.. but PL/SQL is very difficult at first
The startupss and bank industry jobs will favor experience more and a well rounded "full stack" skill set, and preferrably with an OOP (Java/C#) background.. they may also prefer some JS (JQuery, Angular come to mind)
So i'm not even sure how the skill set would match as the market would already be tough and (honestly) catered to UT grads... which has a very good CS program anyways lol. And let's not discount the other univesities in the area that filter to those jobs or seasoned professionals who may be trying to get those jobs too...?
It isn't exactly "easy' to land it in Austin lol
Thanks for your input it has been invaluable, my bf really appreciates it. I asked him about those you list and he said those are his strengths, however he wants to focus more on being a field technician and maybe just doing the occasional database update, or etc, he just doesn't like to sit around all day, which is what that state position description is. He really is more of hands on person, he is able to fix about anything with his hands and he is extremely smart, however, he doesn't seem to fit in most of the time with people, and that makes it harder for him, he just mainly keeps to himself, or he is so ingrained into his work that he won't stop, and he tends to be a workaholic, he has excelled at most things he has tackled in his life and at high levels, he was even a professional in another field and traveled all over the nation (mostly the mid-west though), and he has always operated at a high level of competence. He decided that he couldn't do that kind of life the rest of his life and decided to go back to school and that is when he decided to get his MIS degree.
Btw on the people here they really are like that they don't understand how difficult it is to find a decent paying job here, and be able to afford to live here, it is extremely difficult, and they like to give off this pretentious attitude, I don't know where they get it from, but it is definitely here for certain.
Well, there's your problem - I never use City-Data statistics. For Jarrell, for example, they have the population wrong, they even have the zip code wrong (they're using a zip code for Georgetown for Jarrell), and what they did have right is outdated. I've run into this before here so I don't even go to those pages any more.
This. Very outdated info, unfortunately.
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