The IT field is very segmented. Companies complain they cannot find the workers they need and senior developers like myself cannot find companies that will employ them.
I have over 15 years' experience in the IT field with companies large and small. I haven't found any good jobs in the past three years and that situation hasn't changed recently. What I have found are a lot of companies and their recruiters who are overly impressed with some new buzzword (AJAX!, Ruby on Rails!, blah blah blah) and can't understand why everyone hasn't yet embraced that technology and is ready to be hired by them.
Long term I cannot recommend the IT field to any student. As a previous poster alluded to, if you use IT as a part of your appeal to a company that might work better. But, and here's the kicker, there will come a day when whatever wonderful skills the company hired you for in the first place will be replaced and you will be as well.
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The IT field is very segmented. Companies complain they cannot find the workers they need and senior developers like myself cannot find companies that will employ them. I have over 15 years' experience in the IT field with companies large and small. I haven't found any good jobs in the past three years and that situation hasn't changed recently. What I have found are a lot of companies and their recruiters who are overly impressed with some new buzzword (AJAX!, Ruby on Rails!, blah blah blah) and can't understand why everyone hasn't yet embraced that technology and is ready to be hired by them. Long term I cannot recommend the IT field to any student. As a previous poster alluded to, if you use IT as a part of your appeal to a company that might work better. But, and here's the kicker, there will come a day when whatever wonderful skills the company hired you for in the first place will be replaced and you will be as well.