Originally posted by: JeffSpicoli
Originally posted by: 5LiterMustang
Originally posted by: TommyVercetti
Programming isn't the only job that MIS/IS type people do. There are also a lot of Systems Analysis, requirement gathering, project management, and technical marketing jobs available.
Thats exactly what I'm hoping to do. I love sys analysis management stuff like that. I go to the University of OKlahoma and I know that 200 lines isn't long at all for a program. But on your first program when they are asking to input cars, based on the number of doors, transmission type, color, and price and then from that determine the trim level and if it's trim level "x" determine the horsepower basedon additional info I was like uhhhh damn. I understand most programs in the real world are hundreds of thousands or millions of lines of code...keep the input coming guys...
You can thank Bill Clinton for accepting donations from big business special interest groups just before he left office (and just after he pardoned those criminals) in return for approval of 500,000 H1B Visas to allow foreigners with IT skills to flood the job market and drive salaries down. Companies claimed there were too many openings they couldn't fill when, really, they just didn't want to have to pay market price (granted, the market was overblown by hysteria). But now, many of the H1B Visa people remain while IT professionals lose their jobs and graduates cannot find jobs. H1B people can work for 1/3 the salary of an American for a couple of years and still go back to their country and retire since the cost (and probably standard) of living is so much lower. The result is that programming has been commoditized. Computer programmer is no longer a career since so many companies will either hire foreigners and ridiculous wages or just ship their projects overseas.
Therefore, your only hope is to work on your soft skills to help you land a job. Being able to speak English is becoming a more valuable skill in the IT industry than being able to speak Java or C++. My suggestion is to look for a job as an IT Business Analyst out of college and begin studying project management. Pass the Project Managment Professional certification exam and have a career as a Project Manager. Project Management is more an art than a science, so those skills will be much harder to commoditize. The PMP cert is a scam, but it is recognized by many companies.