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Message: <blockquote data-quote="spoonraker" data-source="post: 3258790" data-attributes="member: 570956">I'm 20 years old, graduated high school, and was kicked out of college in the middle of my second year due to bad grades. I was going for a computer science degree, but failed english twice, math twice, computer science twice, and I dropped out of philosophy. I'm not even sure I completed enough credit hours to be considered a sophomore. Basically I screwed up bad, I have no excuse, it is completely my fault. I can say I lost motivation due to some difficult times with my family and other aspects of my personal life, but basically, I'm in control or myself (or not) and I messed up. I had been working at a grocery store for 3 years, and was only making $7.50 per hour, and hardly able to get in 30 hours a week. I gained a ton of weight, I hated my job, I was pissed at myself for screwing up my education...you can just imagine it wasn't the best of times.I honestly don't remember where, but I met a guy who told me about how badly he needed help at work. He was a programmer for a company called Carson services that is headquarters for some very large international websites, and he was the one and only programmer for the last 9 years or so. He told me they were looking to hire one programmer to help out. Even though they were looking for a college graduate with thorough knowledge of every programming language under the sun and practical work experience, he convinced me to turn in a resume. Well about a month after turning in my very sparse single sheet of printer paper I passed off as a resume, I got a call from them saying they wanted to schedule an interview. I was honest and I told them that I had a limited amount of knowledge of Java programming that I attained in my short time at the University, and that was my only formal training. None of which pertained directly to the web application style of programming they were looking for, and to top it off I had no experience in the field, my first and only job to that point was at the grocery store. I told them I was willing and able to learn anything they through at me, and I hoped for the best. Another month went by and I had pretty much given up on the idea of getting the job when they called me to tell me that I didn't get the job. They hired some guy the day after I interviewed with all kinds of experience and who was willing to work for next to nothing. They then told me that the day before they had fired him and I was on the top of the list. They agreed to give me a trial run. I was put on wage (everybody else is salary) at $12/hr and expected to learn. I am in week 3 of training and am very well versed in Java, Javascript, MySQL databasing, PHP, AJAX, and of course HTML/CSS/XML. In my first week I was able to code a sample web application using Java and the struts framework capable of communicating through a MySQL database, adding, updating, sorting, and deleting data, with a secure login script. They were very impressed and honestly they didn't plan on me learning that much in my first month, much less a week. I came in the next day and the boss literally threw a book at me titled "PHP Bible" and said learn PHP and have your Java application running in PHP by the end of the week. After doing this I was told that they will slowly start introducing me into the real coding they do on actual websites, and if I can hold my own like I am now, I can expect salary somewhere in the range of $50k+And to top it all off, a couple weeks in, in the middle of my work day I get a call on my cell phone from the owner of a local car stereo shop that I had applied at probably 7 or 8 months ago for as an installer. I had an MECP basic installer certificate, but again, no real work experience, and they offered me a job over the phone which I had to turn down.I say go for it!</blockquote>

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