I work in IT. Started 20 years ago as a computer operator and learned on the job. Yes, I'm in a cube, make 80K a year, it sucks, and I'm stuck at that level. Working in a cube farm sucks because the managers put noisy people around us and don't care what we think. The people near me speak spanish all day and talk loud. The IT department helps out by blocking the internet and saying we can't stream music over the net. I got around this by tunneling thru the fire wall to my home computer. The network people reading this will say I'm a fuck for tunneling thru the firewall and that I'll get caught. Hasn't happened yet and I think they know we're doing it. There's a boss above me who isn't going anywhere and the language I program in (Pick) is very rare and only used in big companies. Since I don't have the 10 acronyms of Java, C++, ASP, Oracle, SQL, Unix, Novell, and a few others, I can't switch into the web world. The only way to do that is if I have an "In" which I don't.
Unless you're Jewish and climb the CEO ladder, you'll be stuck between 80-100K depending on what specialty you pick. In case you don't know, Jews promote Jews along the CEO ladder. I saw it happen first hand here. Our company has a data warehouse department. I was in that department when it first started. It was me and some other dude. The guy left, and then the department fizzled, until they gave it to a Jew. Guess what? He got to "kingdom build" an entire department of 6 people and now he's a manager with a parking spot out front and a high salary. It happens, so don't tell me it doesn't. Some crack pot or recruiter will immediately come in here and say it's easy to get a 100k job and move up the CEO ladder even if you aren't Jewish. Yeah, right, ok, then everyone on TW would have a job. If there's so many then why is the IT field going to shit? Why? Because you need an "in" and you have to know 10 complicated languages just to get a job. Besides the 10 acronyms that most don't have, most companies throw in some special language or application that one can only learn on the job. How many of you know EMC hard drives? Is EMC taught in college? No. Can you afford the classes on your own? No. Yet many jobs would ask that you be an EMC expert to get the job.
IT is not worth going into because when the bubble burst in 2000, it fucked up everything. Web programming became a blue collar job with most being paid $11/hour. There's no middle managers left, it's all CEOs at the top, and then blue collar monkeys at the bottom. Working in IT means being in a noisy cube farm with no privacy, everything you do being tracked, watched, cameras, fuck it. Do something else, go in a completely different direction.
It's 9am and there's 2 conversations going on around me. One in spanish, the other english. It will be this way all day. People will walk thru the cube farm making noise yelling to each other. We tell the managers it's noisy, but they can't do anything about it.
