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Jamison Vandenberg

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169 total appearances

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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers

manufacturers.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers

And I've just had a meeting with Planar to say, hey, if there's any training for how to install these direct view LEDs, can I and a student join for these trainings that integrators are getting?

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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers

Because that's what we need to do.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers

Yeah, there's a lot of my students end up just going right into AV right out of college.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers

So a lot of them, you know, they join me for all my vendor meetings.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers

They'll join me for the scope of work.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers

They'll join me for a lot of it.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers

They get to meet, you know,

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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers

all the big names in the industry, I'm not going to name them all out, but like all the really big names in the industry, they even get to meet, you know, my reps for like Q-SYS or Extron so that they can actually like kind of see what they do so they can see the manufacturer side of it.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers

So I would say like recently I've had two Michaels graduate.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers

One of the Michaels went into more accounting because that was his major, but he understood how to budget for an AV system.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers

He understood how a school budgets as a student, which is insane to think about.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers

And now he's making a lot more money than I am.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers

But it's one of those things.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers

My other student, Michael, he's working over at a local company called Camera Corner.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers

And he's an AV programmer over there now.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers

And then I have two other students that graduated.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers

One of them said, I like AV, but I like the electrical side of it.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers

You know, he ended up going into the electrician side.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 250 - Guest Jamison Vandenberg Promotes AV Career Paths to Student Workers

My other student, Deasia, she decided to go more into producing her own music and decided to kind of make her own beats and do a whole bunch of stuff.