I teach a course at a technical school in the Baltimore area. I speak to aspiring IT professionals all the time and try and give them advice. For you veteran IT pros out there, finish this thought "If I can give you any advice about being successful in the I.T. field it would be......"
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"...to focus on what you enjoy doing, not what pays the most."
I define successful as a job you look forward to, or at least don't mind showing up to daily. We get posts here regularly from people just starting their careers, asking what specialization pays the most. My response is always the same. It doesn't matter how much it pays if you don't enjoy doing it; you'll only spend it on Maalox and therapy.
Tony's advice above is pretty good too.
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Well my response is a little different but still means the same
Between this, Professor, and a query I posted once in Questions, having to do with, How Is It That I Am...and, tangentially, Ought To Be.
I said at the time that I had worn out my Google Button searching for the answer. Google Button? You don't have a Google Button? I have a Google Button. But, I wore out my Google Button, I said.
So, I settle here. I wait to see if TheProfessorDan garners more with his question than I did.
Let me quickly add that I never did know what I wanted to be when I grew up.
you must first realize that you do in fact want to be something. In the old sense of want, that is. The prerequisite is, in other words, that you find your being to be wanting.
When we were very young kids, my dad would come home from work stressed out. He was a school principal at a private school in NY.
When he got to the dinner table he would make us eat our veggies...
We learned that if we asked him how his day was, he forgot about making us eat the veggies :)
Strange tho, now that I'm grown up, veggies are most of what I eat.
One fellow at work is pretty cool except that he doesn't have the 'wisdom of being older'. So as I've grown, I've re-defined "chronologically challenged" as being too young to know how to deal with life the right way. And also realize the time you waste on frivolous activities.
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Finish this sentence.