anyone with an Information Systems degree?

[DaShen]

Originally posted by: yoda291
I have my BS in CS. but I know lots of IS folk. lots of them went into helpdesk/entry level IT jobs and either learned enough to rise to lower/middle management, or couldn't deal with the technicals/techie folk and went into more mundane pursuits like construction or service industries. In my experience, HR folk seem to treat IS a lot like CS.

Yup, the people who survive the entry level IT jobs and move up tend to be really good at what they do.

IS/IT people who are good at what they do tend to love the newest technology. Good, smart people.

I have a BS in CS, too, it is a bunch of BS.

**EDIT**
As for business school being an 'idiots degree'. Which is smarter, taking it easier in college and building business networks and getting rich as a manager, or working really hard to derive algorithms and theorums to work a job that almost never receives gratitude and is harder to get a manager position? 😛 It isn't the degree that you do, but rather how much work you put into your skills that makes you successful. Plus luck.

 

[Feldenak]

Originally posted by: acemcmac
Every employer I know looks at technology degrees like this.

EE > CE > CS > MIS/IS, whatever

I know several people with IS degrees who came back for CS degrees because nobody would take them seriously.

I had a nice long retort written out for this and decided to scrap it. I just let it go at: If the employers you know think all tech degrees are essentially the same with some varying difficulty...then those are some rather dumb employers.

 

[GeneValgene]

Originally posted by: acemcmac
Every employer I know looks at technology degrees like this.

EE > CE > CS > MIS/IS, whatever

I know several people with IS degrees who came back for CS degrees because nobody would take them seriously.

well...if you are looking for a technical job, i agree with you

but with an MIS degree, you can easily get a job at a big 5 consulting company. top performers can make manager with 5 years, senior manager in 7, and make at least 150-175K. then you can jump ship to a smaller boutique firm, or do IT management at a regular corporation, and make even more

 

[EatSpam]

Originally posted by: vital
What is your position now at work w/ an IS degree? How did you get started?

I have an IS degree...its a phoney major like Communications. I work 2nd shift operations at a hospital, which means, I'm do help desk, hardware support, load machines, etc. All I could have done with an A+ cert for a lot less money. At least I'll get to move on up to a Server admin when a spot opens up/gets created... thanks MCSA, soon to be MCSE. 🙂

If you want to work with computers get a CS or EE degree. Otherwise, don't waste your time with anything more than Junior College and certs - Cisco, Microsoft, etc. And get LOTS of experience while in school.

In hindsight, I should have just gone to school to be a Radiology tech.... if you do decently, you'll start at >$20/hour - more depending on your market. Not bad for 2 years of school, straight out of high school.

 

[DaShen]

Originally posted by: GeneValgene

Originally posted by: acemcmac
Every employer I know looks at technology degrees like this.

EE > CE > CS > MIS/IS, whatever

I know several people with IS degrees who came back for CS degrees because nobody would take them seriously.

well...if you are looking for a technical job, i agree with you

but with an MIS degree, you can easily get a job at a big 5 consulting company. top performers can make manager with 5 years, senior manager in 7, and make at least 150-175K. then you can jump ship to a smaller boutique firm, or do IT management at a regular corporation, and make even more

Actually, it really does depend on what the job requires. A EE/CE probably couldn't build an optimum efficient program using design patterns and algorithms like a CS person could. A CS person probably could build an optimum transistor or working out the best ways to improved silicon chip making. An IS person probably would be best suited for Network, and later Security, related jobs.

But for the most part on a general techinical job, this is true.

 

[SpanishFry]

survived an IT position and moved into IBM sales.

 

[yoda291]

Most every employer I know pretty much does this in regards to CS/IS/MIS/BS/etc.

Huh, he's got a degree, that's nice.

What did he do at his last job?

Experience is king...easily. Degree is secondary...or even tertiary.