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Lifetime Careers in IT?
CyPlasm asks: "MSN Careers had this article posted the other day that asked about a "Lifetime Career in IT: Is It Possible?" Does the average Slashdot reader think they will retire (with a pension, benefits, etc) after a long and successful career in IT?"
Does the average Slashdot reader think they will retire (with a pension, benefits, etc) after a long and successful career in IT?"
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try doing a life - for IT crimes.
Kevin's on the loose, beware!
love slashdot. populate it. use it. abuse it. hate it. kill it. miss it. stop following links, they only kill servers.
if you're willing to move to India and take 1/10 of your current pay, you can have a lifetime job.
If I die tommrow that is....
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I would first have to get a job in IT.
(current status: unemployed recent college grad. MIS major).
I have blog like everyone else
When we fire you, we kill you.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
Someday I'm going to sell my stock options and retire early on the proceeds. Of course, since the options are so far underwater there's little hope of them ever seeing air again, my retirement years will be spent in a cardboard box underneath a freeway overpass.
That's "Mr. Soulless Automaton" to you, Bub.
"Back in my day, we didn't even have cybornetic implants. We had to interface with the computer through this thing that had all of these buttons, and another thing that moved around and had 3 buttons. And another thing. We had a command line. When we used Xwindow, the corners were so sharp we had customers sue us for it. That's why we had to use the round ones. And there was this company called apple....."
Yeah, about those TPS reports. Did you see the memo? If you could just do that from now on, that would be great.
And I'll make sure you get another copy of that memo. Okay?
Will I have retirement, benefits, etc...? Of Course! I don't work in IT.
There's only a worldwide market for, what, 6 machines? No way to make a career out of that.
Not that this wasn't entirely predictable.
...just as long as I keep assimilating new information, establishing myself as an indespensible team player, etc.
Oh yeah, and bribes. Lots of bribes.
Ummmmm yeah..... I am going to need you to come in and work on Saturday..... say around 9:00am... Um.... yeah and Sunday too. :-)
The thing is Bob it's not that I am lazy, its that I just don't care...
The more I learn about science, the more my faith in God increases.
1. Start company of unemployed geeks.
2. Bribe government officials for fat military contracts.
3. Retire!!!
Karma: Bad (mostly affected by being such an asshole)
dammit, don't mod him up!
Mod him down! Show him what _real_ pain is! We'll show him what stress is.
My ultimate goal is to produce a website with no bad links after, and only after that I will retire.... HTML programmer is an IT job isn it?
Overuse of the Pumping Lemma causes blindness
I plan on taking two jobs and hiring a Chinese teenager to do the other one! I'll call it outsourcing! Yea thats the ticket
Karma: Bad (mostly affected by being such an asshole)
that you were reading something on MSN, or
that you believe that your IT career can become lifetime employment.
Take my advice. Get involved with the local Mafia family (or one of five if you live in New York). That way, when you retire from IT, you can still work your next job as a button man. It sure beats guarding the door at Wal-Mart.
1) Bring in lots of suckers out for the $$
2) Purge them with the bad economy
3) Post stuff all over the web about how terrible the IT field is so no one new enters.
4) Profit!!!!
Uhhhh, yeah, thath dithgustin. [The lady's man]
A new SlashDot poll reveals that when MSN Careers publishes a fluffy article based solely on idle message board speculation, the end is surely near.
"It's Dot Com!"
No, but it seems like several lifetimes already.
Slashdot: Failed Car Analogies. Amateur Lawyering. Anecdote Battles.
Ba. Where I work, firing any number of the "developers" would thoroughly and permanently cripple the company. These guys are just irreplaceable. Use Strict? Option Explicit? Comments? Documentation? Proper English? Any jedi craves not these things.
While on the subject, is anyone looking for a young, highly disciplined software developer? Please? Anyone? Help, the escape key isn't working!
I intend to do something similar: I love computers, and I hope to work in computers until the day I die.
What this probably means is that I'll die penniless - a broken man - and that my genius will only be discovered 200 years later after my death (when corporations are overthrown by the starving masses, declared illegal, and their suppressed documents are released, causing a second renaissance and pulling all the world out of the second dark ages).
Or I'll just do something else that I'm good at.
Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!
Yes, here are a few ways you can make it happen right now.
1. Take an electric cable and fit a plug on one end. Put the plug into an electric socket. Hold the other ends of two wires in your hands. Switch on the power supply and you can see Lifetime IT career reaching you soon at electric speed.
2. Take your server machine to the topmost floor. Tell your assistant to put down the server in five minutes. Go down to the ground floor and stand right below the server. Within five minutes, you can achieve lifetime IT career falling into you.
3. Disassemble all the parts of your computer. Eat the parts in the following order. Processor, RAM, Video Card, Audio Card, Motherboard. This method is so special that you can get rid of your hunger at the same time you acheive lifetime IT career. wow !
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That's a wonderful goal. And, though just halfway through my career, I've already achieved half of it.
A few years back, IBM was reevaluating the FAA systems for Y2K compliance [house.gov] and they came to a conclusion: There is nobody left who understands the system.
Who says anybody *originally* understood it?
Table-ized A.I.
So to answer the question, If you work at IBM you have a career at IBM.
"The new wave is not value-added; it's garbage-subtracted" - Esther Dyson, Dec 1994