Benefits of a job in IT

[scotnt73]

yep. i got most of my posts while at work. unfortunately they put in a content blocker 6 months ago and the proxy server is no longer in my building and under my control so 2+2 is blocked and i can only surf it at home now.

[AncientPC]

So VNC home and browse 2+2 from there. You're in IT aren't you?

[wonderwes]

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who would pick #2?

IT salaries have also been stagnant over the last couple of years (as a whole, please don't reply me with, "not me, i got a 10% raise last year!"...plenty of ppl didn't) and products constantly change and if you don't keep up, eventually, you are obselete.

Also, depending on your personality, it may not be a fulfilling career; as nothing you do as an IT-ant will have significance to anyone in 5-10 years.

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Who knows what the future will hold. Possibly a cellphone implant directly into your skull. However, the evolution of technology is showing we will only get a more connected society. I worked for an internent provider. The one drawback was the Internet never closes, so someone always had to be around to watch the network.

IT jobs do have low pay. $15 an hour? That's not bad at all. Most companies try to squeeze their IT budget in employees and hardware. Some IT jobs (admin jobs) have huge stress. However I will agree with the forum, the IT field is great. Probably half the work of a normal 8 hour work day, can sit by a terminal, surf the net, do stuff at your desk, and have a pretty coasting work day or week.

Also, you don't know hell unless you had to phone trouble shoot with customers back when everyone was using windows98.

[AncientPC]

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Also, you don't know hell unless you had to phone trouble shoot with customers back when everyone was using windows98.

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Yes I do, I worked at the ITS Help Desk on campus for 3 years. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[TimM]

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Also, you don't know hell unless you had to phone trouble shoot with customers back when everyone was using windows98.

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Come on, I had to phone support people trying to run old DOS programs in Windows 95.

[wonderwes]

In the old neighborhood I was in, Verizon (GTE at the time) setup a switch with all the new homes. The switch squeezed more calls than physical phone lines. Result? Any v.90 (56k) modem would reach a max connection of 28.8bps (usually 26.4). So people got that along with random disconnects. Explaining how this work to the basic clueless customer on why it takes so long for a 1 meg picture file to get d/l on her email client on a 26.4 connect, was not easy.

Luckily those days are over. Except my friend just told me to go work at Wayport, the largest wifi provider for public places (airports, hotels, resturants, etc), doing basic tech support. Wireless tech support cant be that hard can it? Hmmmm, troubleshoot wifi. Sounds actually like an easy job. Shame you can not put poker skills on a resume.

[AncientPC]

Remember when UT started adding in free wireless access around campus? It was hell then.

Nothing compares to the hell every fall when 10k+ freshment move into dorms though.