I fear this will not be a long post, but I shall make a game review shortly =D
In the higher education system, there is a phenomenon called a “placement year”. The university lets companies hire a student for a year for low pay to let the student get a real world experience of working for a company. Since my course is a sandwich course (sadly no real sandwiches are involved) I have to find a placement at a company and hope they accept me.
This hasn’t really gone down so well so far for me, as up until recently I thought I had a placement sorted. I was told that they couldn’t accept me anymore as their predictions for next year were inaccurate. So this leaves me frantically applying for placements left right and centre. Sadly I have heard nought from any of the places I have applied to via my university’s placement site. I do not know which places to harass to see if they have are willing to accept me for a year.
As a computer science student I my skill set is somewhat broad, ranging from programming (c,c++,c#,java,vb.net) to infrastructure of computers and how they function with logic gates at the core. I know how to handle most technical difficulties with computer as I have been living with them the best part of my life. The problem being is some of the placements I have found are little more than changing a printer’s ink. This is not what I expect after 2 years of uni and 2 years of college.
Though at the end of the day if that’s all that is left at such a late stage then should I be happy with being a company’s tech lackey?
The other problem is what to do with myself during the time of searching for placements; I can’t realistically get a job. I do not know if I would be able to work for a week or a month or 2 or even a year. So I have partially fallen back to leaning Japanese as something to do. I was learning it a year ago during my 2nd year of university, but then decided that uni work was more important and I left Japanese on the side.
All I can hope for at the moment is that I can find some place soon; I fear my mind is beginning to melt from sitting in the same room for this length of time.
