So if I go up to the music clerk in my local music store and say, "Hey, do you know that song that goes dum dum dum EVERYBODY'S WORKIN FOR THE WEEKEND," if they help me out by remembering it and pointing me to it, are they OMG COPYRIGHT INFRINGING because they're storing the music in their brains instead of on CD?
Why would you even want to go into IT nowadays? If you're doing it for money, you might last a year at a low level position before they ship your job into the middle of nowhere to save a few pennies. If you're doing it for love, you might last a year at a low level position before they ship your job into the middle of nowhere to save a few pennies. If you actually wind up with a position that lasts, you're very likely to be managed by someone entirely clueless who thinks of IT as a sector that loses money, so he'll pinch pennies on everything. You'll probably be on call at all hours, expected to work ridiculous work weeks for a quarter of the salary of the executive who calls you to whine about the virus he got from the attachment he double-clicked, doing about three peoples' jobs because they "can't afford to hire anybody else" even though the sales staff is riding around in company cars that cost the approximate salary of one decent IT worker. If that isn't enough, you'll be Low Man/Woman on the totem pole to the rest of the company. At best, you'll be an annoyance for not letting them click on those attachments/answer the nice Nigerian man. At worst, they'll ship your job overseas and make you train your own replacement and you better like it or no severance for you, buddy!
American business has decided that IT is the McDonald's of their work infrastructure. They want it fast, cheap, and done by people willing or desperate enough to work for a pittance. Do you know anyone who really wants to make a career out of burger flipping, especially when at any given moment, the restaurant may pack up and move to the Third World?
They're gone. Companies have eliminated (or are working on eliminating) entry-level IT jobs in droves. Sure, you save a few bucks not having a Help Desk Monkey I collecting a salary. But HDM1 never gains experience to move up to HDM2, or Senior Help Desk Monkey or Network Admin, and companies like yours sit there going "Gawrsh, where'd all the experienced people go?" Help Desk Monkey 1 never goes "Wow, this is really cool, maybe I should learn Linux/Network Admin/Programming/Management and move up to a different Monkeyhouse." Help Desk Monkey 1 never spends a year learning the job and then moving into management, maybe finding a better way to do Help Desk Monkey 1 work from his time in the field.
In military terms, we've shipped all the foot soldier through sergeant jobs overseas and kept all the generals over here. We've shut down the training institutes and grunt jobs you'd use to learn about the military, saying "Uh, yea, go get experience and come back, please, but train you? BAAAAHHAHAHAHA!" So what we're left with is a bunch of generals standing around a field going "Doesn't anyone know how to shoot a rifle anymore?"
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So if I go up to the music clerk in my local music store and say, "Hey, do you know that song that goes dum dum dum EVERYBODY'S WORKIN FOR THE WEEKEND," if they help me out by remembering it and pointing me to it, are they OMG COPYRIGHT INFRINGING because they're storing the music in their brains instead of on CD?
Why would you even want to go into IT nowadays? If you're doing it for money, you might last a year at a low level position before they ship your job into the middle of nowhere to save a few pennies. If you're doing it for love, you might last a year at a low level position before they ship your job into the middle of nowhere to save a few pennies. If you actually wind up with a position that lasts, you're very likely to be managed by someone entirely clueless who thinks of IT as a sector that loses money, so he'll pinch pennies on everything. You'll probably be on call at all hours, expected to work ridiculous work weeks for a quarter of the salary of the executive who calls you to whine about the virus he got from the attachment he double-clicked, doing about three peoples' jobs because they "can't afford to hire anybody else" even though the sales staff is riding around in company cars that cost the approximate salary of one decent IT worker. If that isn't enough, you'll be Low Man/Woman on the totem pole to the rest of the company. At best, you'll be an annoyance for not letting them click on those attachments/answer the nice Nigerian man. At worst, they'll ship your job overseas and make you train your own replacement and you better like it or no severance for you, buddy! American business has decided that IT is the McDonald's of their work infrastructure. They want it fast, cheap, and done by people willing or desperate enough to work for a pittance. Do you know anyone who really wants to make a career out of burger flipping, especially when at any given moment, the restaurant may pack up and move to the Third World?
They're gone. Companies have eliminated (or are working on eliminating) entry-level IT jobs in droves. Sure, you save a few bucks not having a Help Desk Monkey I collecting a salary. But HDM1 never gains experience to move up to HDM2, or Senior Help Desk Monkey or Network Admin, and companies like yours sit there going "Gawrsh, where'd all the experienced people go?" Help Desk Monkey 1 never goes "Wow, this is really cool, maybe I should learn Linux/Network Admin/Programming/Management and move up to a different Monkeyhouse." Help Desk Monkey 1 never spends a year learning the job and then moving into management, maybe finding a better way to do Help Desk Monkey 1 work from his time in the field. In military terms, we've shipped all the foot soldier through sergeant jobs overseas and kept all the generals over here. We've shut down the training institutes and grunt jobs you'd use to learn about the military, saying "Uh, yea, go get experience and come back, please, but train you? BAAAAHHAHAHAHA!" So what we're left with is a bunch of generals standing around a field going "Doesn't anyone know how to shoot a rifle anymore?"