I've worked in IT for 12 years or so, I stopped counting. After about 10 I found myself in the same place wanting to change careers out of sheer boredom and lack of challenge. I've been both an artist and a musician for over 20 years in addition to being in IT, and both of those have had their ups and downs, profits and losses. I pursue them now more than ever in light of my being unemployed and having great difficulty finding IT related work where I live.
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A long time ago I started a web comic about the people I worked with in IT, and I recently resurrected it. Though it's not bringing me any income, it beats the hell out of IT and I can vent all those years of frustration out into a comic that hopefully makes others laugh as well as see just how much shat one has to put up with when dealing with "people".
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I've worked in IT for 12 years or so, I stopped counting. After about 10 I found myself in the same place wanting to change careers out of sheer boredom and lack of challenge. I've been both an artist and a musician for over 20 years in addition to being in IT, and both of those have had their ups and downs, profits and losses. I pursue them now more than ever in light of my being unemployed and having great difficulty finding IT related work where I live.
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A long time ago I started a web comic about the people I worked with in IT, and I recently resurrected it. Though it's not bringing me any income, it beats the hell out of IT and I can vent all those years of frustration out into a comic that hopefully makes others laugh as well as see just how much shat one has to put up with when dealing with "people".
http://www.cubicle101.com/