I'm in IT, my so is in anthropology, I am fairly young and thrilled at the prospects of employment I have compared to her. I recently got hired at a TV station, everything is so cool and I would not be in a such a comfy position without my trade. My peers are mid 20s and I see them putting down their major (biology) to pursue IT simply because there are no job propsects and they are sick of $10 an hour. What I guess I'm asking, all these old guys running away from IT, could part of it be from complacency? are you just tired of writing the same code day in and day out? is it a matter of perspective?
I guess I'm just trying to figure out if the grass just seems greener on the other side, I haven't really gotten more than a handful of jobs in my career so far. In my relatively short experience, If the office sucks for IT personnel chances are the office sucks for everyone. I do realize IT can be put under a lot of pressure - but the accountants aren't having a good time at a crap office either. The IT world seems to be an endless source of job duties and skill sets. My experience is that one IT job is never like the other, and that if I can't stand back end dev, I can go to front end dev, if I'm getting tired of computers in general I can perhaps tackle websites from a marketing perspective with analytics and other traffic data. Where you just locked into the same function with no hopes of branching out to new tasks?
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I'm in IT, my so is in anthropology, I am fairly young and thrilled at the prospects of employment I have compared to her. I recently got hired at a TV station, everything is so cool and I would not be in a such a comfy position without my trade. My peers are mid 20s and I see them putting down their major (biology) to pursue IT simply because there are no job propsects and they are sick of $10 an hour. What I guess I'm asking, all these old guys running away from IT, could part of it be from complacency? are you just tired of writing the same code day in and day out? is it a matter of perspective?
I guess I'm just trying to figure out if the grass just seems greener on the other side, I haven't really gotten more than a handful of jobs in my career so far. In my relatively short experience, If the office sucks for IT personnel chances are the office sucks for everyone. I do realize IT can be put under a lot of pressure - but the accountants aren't having a good time at a crap office either. The IT world seems to be an endless source of job duties and skill sets. My experience is that one IT job is never like the other, and that if I can't stand back end dev, I can go to front end dev, if I'm getting tired of computers in general I can perhaps tackle websites from a marketing perspective with analytics and other traffic data. Where you just locked into the same function with no hopes of branching out to new tasks?
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