Choosing a New Career Path

Hi. There are a couple of career avenues you could persue with your talents. It's really not so bleak. IT security is the necessary addition to your resume. And don't forget about teaching...you have skills that others desire. Good luck in your search. -Sharon

Some want to bail because they are concerned about career security with so many people flooding into the market and a number of jobs being outsourced elsewhere. Me, I'm just sick of communing with a computer for hours on end re-inventing the same stuff year in, year out. IT just doesn't give me the satisfaction in a job that it did 10 years ago. Frankly it's all a bit dull and introverted. And I get fed up with having to always embrace the newest technology whether it is good or not as these things tend to be fashions. Here today gone tomorrow. For me it's time to review my options and move on. Work more with people and something I that I enjoy. So when I make the transition next year someone else can take my place in IT. That is unless it hasn't already been earmarked for overseas.

So my advice is stick to IT and leave the more interesting, real life vocations to those of us who want to break free of the nerdy tyranny of IT.

You get to yak with a lot of interesting people, pay isn't bad (if you own the cart) you get to bail by 2:00 PM most days.

In addition, no stupid users, supervisors half your age or anal bosses either.

The whole problem here is that everyone is forgetting that while slick willy was playing games, other than political in the oval office, he did allow big business to take over our economy and fill their wallets with cash, nice parachute packages when things went wrong, and over inflate the value of their business for their own gain.

The current administration, as is usually the case after a democratic climax, is to clean up the mess. Unfortunately, in order to clean up the mess, it involves a long term in making things right, which costs money.

In either case, both Clinton and Bush have cost this country a great deal in a great many areas. I am not, however, going to all of a sudden jump on the Kerry banwagon because things are a little tough right now. What's he done? The only thing I have heard him talk about is this grand plan that he hasn't backed up yet.

Again, this is getting off the point of the original question. deusbelli@yahoo.com, depending upon which part of the world you live in, I would talk speak to recruiters and HR people in the companies that you are interested in working to see where your skills could fit. If additional training is required, ask what type of training for the job that interests you and pursue it. The main thing today is that you need to get updated training or skills that will help you sort out the career issue. More importantly, you need to know what you are after. If you are unhappy in your present line of work, then you will definitely need to go back to school for training in whatever you do want for a career.

Good luck,

wpwalsh8@optonline.net

The time will come when you're face down on the ground with a boot on your neck and repeating "I will take responsibility for this" is meaningless.

As Jack Welch said: "There is no room in an organization for those 'eternal optimists' who never confront reality and keep hoping quietly that the team will make an impossible deadline."

Sometimes that small child is needed to cut through the bull and say "You know...the emperor...he doesn't have any clothes on."

My brother-in-law barely made it past high school. He got into home building about 20 years ago and is a millionaire. I got into computers......

Being IT Professional for several years, I already had jumped into the Finance career.

this is what i do
im a computer guy

Thre is a great demand for writing applications that can anlsysi mark to makret analyssi of aFX derivaitive. The knowledge is required both in banking and corporate environments. Especially udner a new accounting rule of IAS 39 coming to effect in 2005. The msot important thing is to udnerstand Options and futures, How they are calculated and then work out the present or fuutre value. Of cours eyou may wish to diverse altogether. Try gettign ajob with abnak or other financial isntitutions as an Option Trader, they make serious money . My firend takes home 500k per annum (inclusive of bonus) a few years ago he had a bonus of ?1.1m. I am not kidding. Why don't I do it? sadly, I have not got the brains for it.

Gartner says the focus of IT will be IT business/management processes in about 4 years as more of IT becomes off-the-shelf and off-shore...plenty of time to learn process engineering, re-engineering, six sigma (become a green-belt...)...all along the initial lines of IT process analysis, change, improvement and control...that's what I intend to do...

You might want to try a career as a PACS administrator.

I can't agree wtih you more. I have been in the industry since 1977 and have been through and seen much of what you speak about. I also see so many out there that think they should be hired and elevated based upon some certification. While I see the validity of the cert's, I believe that there are too many out there.

1. Oursourcing will continue to become a reality.
2. I tend to agree with a lights out or dim view of servers and farms. The cost to hire someone like Level3 or similar to be your hands is cost efficient.
3. Companies are or will turn to effective and intelligent toolsets that will keep them immediately abreast of failures. A company doesn't need a person to watch machines hummm.
4. Middle Managers will become history - how many VP's does it take to manage an outsourcing contract.

Major companies in health care as well as others are taking a hard look at the outsourcing and monitoring abilities of companies like Verizon, IBM, Perot, and EDS to name a few based here in the US.

Just my opinion

I'll pass. If I want to play Russian Roulette, I'll go to Vegas. :)