People who work in IT

[whizbang]

Originally posted by: Linux23

Originally posted by: Descartes

Originally posted by: whizbang IT has been commoditized and work is being sent overseas in droves. That is why IT is no longer a career in the US. Please consider a different career path.

I'm hoping that was sensationalism in an attempt to elicit a flame?

no, he's not kidding.

I'm not kidding. That is not sensationalism or hyperbole. I see it everyday and I will probably lose my job in the next month.

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

job market is saturated right now...good luck

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: whizbang

Originally posted by: Linux23

Originally posted by: Descartes

Originally posted by: whizbang IT has been commoditized and work is being sent overseas in droves. That is why IT is no longer a career in the US. Please consider a different career path.

I'm hoping that was sensationalism in an attempt to elicit a flame?

no, he's not kidding.

I'm not kidding. That is not sensationalism or hyperbole. I see it everyday and I will probably lose my job in the next month.

That's unfortunate, but that doesn't mean all of IT is going to founder. Like cchen said, IT is multifaceted. Were you in some form of a support role? If so, perhaps you should work on networking yourself and providing more of a business value to customers?

 

[Soybomb]

Originally posted by: cchen
Please. IT is definitely still a career option in the US. Its not really an option if you want to do menial work like the kind they outsource. Of course, they are outsourcing a lot of highly technical work as well to Russia and India, but the job market for IT is still strong if you have a strong education, work ethic, and good experience.

The company I'm interning for has literally hundreds of job openings that can be considered IT. We just hired 3 new people last week.

Right on man, the economy is sluggish, and the IT sector finally burst after being overinfalated with people that had no business being in it. There's bound to be some job problems, but its certainly not irrecoverable, nor is it a reason to leave the field if its what you enjoy. Just give it a bit of time. Now would be an excellent time to brush up some on some new skills or head to college and pick up a/another degree.

 

[mrCide]

i'm a network admin/it manager, 21 next month, makin 33k a year.. i'm not happy though =\ (with the IT field)

 

[gordy]

Originally posted by: Soybomb

Originally posted by: cchen
Please. IT is definitely still a career option in the US. Its not really an option if you want to do menial work like the kind they outsource. Of course, they are outsourcing a lot of highly technical work as well to Russia and India, but the job market for IT is still strong if you have a strong education, work ethic, and good experience.

The company I'm interning for has literally hundreds of job openings that can be considered IT. We just hired 3 new people last week.

Right on man, the economy is sluggish, and the IT sector finally burst after being overinfalated with people that had no business being in it. There's bound to be some job problems, but its certainly not irrecoverable, nor is it a reason to leave the field if its what you enjoy. Just give it a bit of time. Now would be an excellent time to brush up some on some new skills or head to college and pick up a/another degree.

exactly, alot of "boot-camp-kiddies" here in St. Louis get set aside for people with experience

 

[KC5AV]

A lot of it is going to depend on what you want to do, and where you are. I live in a small East Texas town. I make about $30k a year (2nd year in the position), and it is considered a pretty good salary for the area. I do mostly desktop support, but I am trying to work more toward network/system administration. There are some jobs that can't be outsourced overseas by very nature of the job. You can't ship the stuff I do overseas.

 

[Regs]

The IT market right now is highly saturated with people looking for jobs. This is while companies are not willing to spend any money on IT to make matters worse. So you have to be top of your class or have connections (networking) to get anywhere in the field.

Most of the big time companies now have their whole IT department contracted. Which means you work a maximum of 18 months without benefits then get shown the door. However I would not argue getting any job in the field right now. If its contracted, then hell, thats one more thing you can add to your resume'.

 

[Ernieb]

Sales, IT Company, 26.
business is real slow..

 

[Vegito]

Originally posted by: efript
hey guys im considering a career in the IT department.... for those of you who currently have postitions ther what do you like/dislike about it and what is your yearly pay (if you dont mind me asking such a personal question). what education did you receive to obtain your current position as well.. thanks!

i was political sci/economic major with business minor, looking to work at capital hill... finish school with that but i work in a fund, last year i racked in 142k, i dont know what this year is but i already got a 5000 raise last month for the first 6 month and Ill probably end up with something around 250k this year. My salary depends on market condition.. lowest i made was around 100k. Im 27, this is my second job, first year i spend time deploying network topology at Cablevision out in long island/connecticut

The only thing i dont like is my long hours.. its very hard to find good help..

My current job involves
Purchasing/Eval equipments
Software eval and testing
Deploying clones using ghost
Cisco router/netscreen firewalls
IPC turrets (VoIP telephony)
Nortel telephone & voicemails
I actually do wiring & desktop support (ie word/excel/outlook)
Servers includes SQL 2003, Exchange 2k, W2K, W2003,

We're heavy user of technology, for a firm of 35 user, we have 20 servers. I used to use these for rc5. Constantly upgrading.

Work hard but work smart.. we had a guy that was smacking the HDD trying to get it to work... smacking an HDD that is on.. u might as well hang ur self. Get a lot of knowledge from here.. also what part of IT are you going into ?

 

[Mr N8]

I'm a Network Specialist for a medium sized company w/ one main location and 8 branches. I just finished my AAS in Computer Network Systems, and I make $35k/year + a nice benefits package (including profit sharing and stock options )

 

[PCMarine]

forcesho, nice job setup there. When I'm 27, I'd love to be making $250K a year