Which IT career is right for me?

[brianmanahan]

No, I can't stand programming. I get bored really quickly, therefore I can't do a good job at it. I do pretty good the first 30 minutes or so, until I get utterly bored to the repetitive syntax and algorithm usage.

lol

so you do not like jobs that require logic?

management will be perfect for you :awe:

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Honestly, a lot of the project managers I have worked with are like road blocks. They sit there doing nothing except to hinder your progress going from point A to point B.

Correct, or they bug you incessantly for details a 3 year-old would've gotten the first time you covered it in a meeting, let alone the other 10 times.

 

[sze5003]

I don't think anyone liked programming until they got good at it and did what they enjoyed. But since you can't stand it, it's always easier telling others what to do. For example in IT you can have a manager that knows nothing about code manage a whole team of programmers. How that manager got there through the ranks was a degree and experience working in the company.

Most pm's just facilitate deadlines and conversations with those people programmers need to get in touch with. My pm will listen to anything I say but half the time goes and tells business the complete opposite or ends up getting us more work because he is too nice.

So you have to be in that industry a while if you want to be an effective manager that others will trust and listen to.

 

[theevilsharpie]

Posting in a troll thread :awe:

 

[SheHateMe]

As for managing teams, I used to play a lot of various team-work online games, including the one I had a server for. I managed teams as in creating a plan which, if executed (usually means my teammates are fast enough), we win.

hahahaha

 

[Hugo Drax]

I think we're left with Geek Squad and Apple Store "Genius"

No that has too much grunt work. inserting CDs and installing stuff.

 

[itcareer]

I don't think anyone liked programming until they got good at it and did what they enjoyed. But since you can't stand it, it's always easier telling others what to do. For example in IT you can have a manager that knows nothing about code manage a whole team of programmers. How that manager got there through the ranks was a degree and experience working in the company.

Most pm's just facilitate deadlines and conversations with those people programmers need to get in touch with. My pm will listen to anything I say but half the time goes and tells business the complete opposite or ends up getting us more work because he is too nice.

So you have to be in that industry a while if you want to be an effective manager that others will trust and listen to.

As it has been mentioned, you can't do what you want or even use the tools you want in programming. 🙂

Anyway, I see management more as logical decision making and situation evaluation, rather than experience and a**kissing, as in your real-life situation. That was a poor manager.

IT "worker" is probably not what you want. (help desk, PC support tech, server tech etc) but it sounds like maybe some kind of management position is more for you. However it's hard to go directly to management so I would try to get in as maybe a server tech somewhere and just try to move up to a management position such as some that have been mentioned like Business Analyst. Maybe even a project manager, or something to that extent.

The key to being good management material though is upping your solitaire and minesweeper skills, so I'd work on that first. You'll probably want to get your MCSE as well. (Minesweeper Consultant and Solitaire Expert). It's a pretty high end cert.

Honestly, a lot of the project managers I have worked with are like road blocks. They sit there doing nothing except to hinder your progress going from point A to point B.

Making sure that you do a good job is part of their job. 😀

lol

so you do not like jobs that require logic?

management will be perfect for you :awe:

So much hatred towards project managers. 😀

 

[brianmanahan]

So much hatred towards project managers. 😀

actually i dont hate them, most ive had are pretty good

but honestly the job is often more ego-stroking and hissyfit-preventing and crybaby-passifying than actually making decisions

at its core, it is about setting expectations and goals, but then switching to getting rid of obstacles and annoyances and bullcrap so that people can actually meeting those goals

and dealing with the bullcrap seems to take about %90 of their time

thus, i would never want to do it

 

[Ns1]

but honestly the job is often more ego-stroking and hissyfit-preventing and crybaby-passifying than actually making decisions

Someone's gotta do it.

 

[sze5003]

A lot of it in a large company like mine is politics and buearocratics. I listen to managers every day argue and complain to each other about procedures such as testing, elevations, and which team supports what. I wouldn't want to do it either but if you have a nice manager that doesn't know much it can be a good thing when it comes to reviews or it can also be a hindrance depending how upper management views it.

 

[Juddog]

Be a helpdesk monkey.

 

[debian0001]

A little programming goes a long way.

 

[dyna]

parking ticket enforcement or mall security

 

[brianmanahan]

Someone's gotta do it.

exactly, thats why it pays well - it sucks but somebody has to do it. and you dont need to be super technical or knowledgeable to do it, just have to be decent at dealing with people. (at least theoretically, anyway)

 

[Lyfer]

You sound like my buddy who refuses to do grunt work (same reason he hasn't landed job in 7 years).

 

[Red Squirrel]

parking ticket enforcement or mall security

Winner.

It is IT related, pretty sure that job involves using a computer at some point to input the information, and you may even get a hand held device of sorts. It's technology, and it holds information.

 

[child of wonder]

This thread delivers.

 

[RichUK]

Based on some of the comments in this thread regarding Project Managers, it appears most people here have only had exposure working with junior IT workstream managers in a software house, rather than Corporate / IT Project Managers for a market leading organisation.

 

[brianmanahan]

Based on some of the comments in this thread regarding Project Managers, it appears most people here have only had exposure working with junior IT workstream managers in a software house, rather than Corporate / IT Project Managers for a market leading organisation.

have worked with both

bigger fish, but still fish

 

[sze5003]

Based on some of the comments in this thread regarding Project Managers, it appears most people here have only had exposure working with junior IT workstream managers in a software house, rather than Corporate / IT Project Managers for a market leading organisation.

My company is far from junior downstream its just that they are all about moving people from developers to managers but few devs want to become managers so then they are forced to get managers from other areas or teams where they have had little exposure to what we are concentrating on. Worst yet, supervisors are brought in the same way.