High Cowboy Neal - Long time viewer, 1st time poster (I think).
I can't speak for anyone else, but... My issues with this career are as follows: -Busted my butt for 4 years as a help desk and field technician, with a 4 year degree in something else and a 2 year in CIS. I would meet paper McSees making twice what I made and didn't know squat. Then they fired me because I made more money then the other two monkeys there.
-Couldn't find a job making more then $12 an hour in IT. So I moved.
-Got a job with a real company only to realize that there is no such thing as an IT person over 40. Where did they go? As an IT person I am told on a daily bases how important I am and how I "saved the day". Meanwhile, my boss went to a meeting on the issue of redoing our external website only to have a department manager say to him, "I have checked into this and we can save a lot of money if we just use FrontPage." Time to try and get a job with the government (state, etc...). At least there is some protection there. My pay is low as it is (Can't afford a house), so how bad could it be? Really?
I've tried over 75 diff E drinks. I used to keep a can collection, but me gurl made me through them out. I now take a pix of each one b4 I toss the can. I'm almost immune to caffein at this pt.
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High Cowboy Neal - Long time viewer, 1st time poster (I think).
I can't speak for anyone else, but...
My issues with this career are as follows:
-Busted my butt for 4 years as a help desk and field technician, with a 4 year degree in something else and a 2 year in CIS. I would meet paper McSees making twice what I made and didn't know squat. Then they fired me because I made more money then the other two monkeys there.
-Couldn't find a job making more then $12 an hour in IT. So I moved.
-Got a job with a real company only to realize that there is no such thing as an IT person over 40. Where did they go? As an IT person I am told on a daily bases how important I am and how I "saved the day". Meanwhile, my boss went to a meeting on the issue of redoing our external website only to have a department manager say to him, "I have checked into this and we can save a lot of money if we just use FrontPage." Time to try and get a job with the government (state, etc...). At least there is some protection there. My pay is low as it is (Can't afford a house), so how bad could it be? Really?
I've tried over 75 diff E drinks. I used to keep a can collection, but me gurl made me through them out. I now take a pix of each one b4 I toss the can. I'm almost immune to caffein at this pt.