Absolutely. Will it happen right away? No. You've got to be willing to work at it. It's taken me nearly 10 years to get the IT Manager position I have now, but I have no degree. I've been through plenty of not so great jobs along the way, but always with a goal in mind. Don't be discouraged if it seems like you are being overlooked for jobs you want or have hit a wall. My greatest strides have come in the last 3 years. 3 years ago I was sitting in a cubicle answering phones and walking clients through software installs. Today I have quadrupled my salary and have my dream job. My family and I are finally reaping the benefits of a lot of hard work. In the beginning take whatever meaningful work you can get. Potential for experience to be earned trumps salary starting out. I've also found that there are basically 2 breeds of employers - ones who put all their stock in degrees and ones who hire based on reputation and experience. IMHO those who look solely at a degree and deem you qualified/unqualified for a job are idiots. Many college graduates don't know the first thing about running a network. Conversely some of the most intelligent people I have ever known dropped out of college or never went at all. I don't think a degree ever hurts if you can afford it or have a scholarship or some financial assistance, but it's not the end all be all of the IT world. It's really just a matter of patience and finding the right employer - someone who hires based on track record vs fancy papers. Or as so many other comments have noted - work for yourself. No papers required. All that matters is results. Good luck.
That might work fine for aunt Sally and uncle Bob who only fly to Disney World once every 10 years but for those of us who fly in order to accomplish actual work, checking bags is an inconvenience. Why should I have to check anything (and now pay for the privilege) if everything I need fits in an overnight bag? All I carry is a laptop and a change of clothes anyway. Anyone who travels frequently for business doesn't have time for the airline to lose or break their shit. By the time they find it I'm back home again and my damn underwear and hair gel are on the other side of the country.
TSA security is a joke. There is no uniform standard as to what is acceptable or not. What passes through security in one airport gets confiscated in another because the agent is constipated and in a pissy mood. Why the fuck can I travel one way with no issues and then on the return trip have all my toiletries confiscated? What the hell am I going to do with a tube of hair gel? Leave a sticky mess on the bathroom faucet handle?
It's sad to see people send out viruses, and spam, and other things in the wake of a disaster such as this.
Agreed. What are people coming to these days? It truly is sad to see people like these scammers immediately jump to capitalize on the suffering of others.
What goes on inside these people's heads that allows them to rationalize such behavior?
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Absolutely. Will it happen right away? No. You've got to be willing to work at it. It's taken me nearly 10 years to get the IT Manager position I have now, but I have no degree. I've been through plenty of not so great jobs along the way, but always with a goal in mind. Don't be discouraged if it seems like you are being overlooked for jobs you want or have hit a wall. My greatest strides have come in the last 3 years. 3 years ago I was sitting in a cubicle answering phones and walking clients through software installs. Today I have quadrupled my salary and have my dream job. My family and I are finally reaping the benefits of a lot of hard work. In the beginning take whatever meaningful work you can get. Potential for experience to be earned trumps salary starting out. I've also found that there are basically 2 breeds of employers - ones who put all their stock in degrees and ones who hire based on reputation and experience. IMHO those who look solely at a degree and deem you qualified/unqualified for a job are idiots. Many college graduates don't know the first thing about running a network. Conversely some of the most intelligent people I have ever known dropped out of college or never went at all. I don't think a degree ever hurts if you can afford it or have a scholarship or some financial assistance, but it's not the end all be all of the IT world. It's really just a matter of patience and finding the right employer - someone who hires based on track record vs fancy papers. Or as so many other comments have noted - work for yourself. No papers required. All that matters is results. Good luck.
That might work fine for aunt Sally and uncle Bob who only fly to Disney World once every 10 years but for those of us who fly in order to accomplish actual work, checking bags is an inconvenience. Why should I have to check anything (and now pay for the privilege) if everything I need fits in an overnight bag? All I carry is a laptop and a change of clothes anyway. Anyone who travels frequently for business doesn't have time for the airline to lose or break their shit. By the time they find it I'm back home again and my damn underwear and hair gel are on the other side of the country.
TSA security is a joke. There is no uniform standard as to what is acceptable or not. What passes through security in one airport gets confiscated in another because the agent is constipated and in a pissy mood. Why the fuck can I travel one way with no issues and then on the return trip have all my toiletries confiscated? What the hell am I going to do with a tube of hair gel? Leave a sticky mess on the bathroom faucet handle?
It's sad to see people send out viruses, and spam, and other things in the wake of a disaster such as this.
Agreed. What are people coming to these days? It truly is sad to see people like these scammers immediately jump to capitalize on the suffering of others.
What goes on inside these people's heads that allows them to rationalize such behavior?
Or you could just switch to Firefox :)