I've been dabbling on and off about some data mining work for sometime now. The one thing I am kind of surprised about myself is that I haven't picked up any decent database skills. Some IT related work came by my way, the guys are looking for someone with C++ skills and and database related stuff.
I haven't touched a low level language like that in ages, the last time I did something with C++ was try to write my own poker bot. I actually had a clever system setup as I made a hack into the RAM to find out where the card data was stored and figured how the card data was stored.
I haven't done any sort of enterprise kind of programming before; most of the work I do with programming is scripting and numerical analysis kind of work; I run pretty much everything through the command line to get at data. But IT work for banks and getting into analysis kind of work seems kind of interesting. The problem is that the firms are Japanese and I sort of have doubts on the amount of money they would be paying. I've worked in one Japanese corporation already and I believe that I should be fetching a higher salary, oddly not being paid enough seems to be strong negative incentive to me-- there were times I worked harder as a student than I work in the company.
There are a lot of skills I need/want to pick up right now. I just have to hunker down and pursue a few things with great intensity. I intend to make programming one of my fortes.
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