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Story: Is IT a good career choice?

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If you are after an easy job in IT you have missed the boat by about 4.5 years. back then as long as you had some kind of Cert you could walk into a job without any trouble.
Now everybody wants real world experience, people with good technical skills in multiple areas along with a good understanding of business needs and costs.
Most entry jobs are hard to find now and usually require working on a 24hour shift pattern just to get your foot in the door.
But hay it's not all doom and gloom, there are jobs but you have to be prepared to work your way up and put in 110% to meet the skills needed by the industry. A good place to start looking is the public sector as the government seems to be moving into enabling on-line access to most of its services(pay is not the best but getting better). Next best place is a service provider starting as a field engineer or on a helpdesk and working your way up.
The Industry is currently in limbo so everybody is keeping their heads down and waiting for the dust to settle, while trying to hang onto their jobs the best they can, as we are definitely in an employers market.
If you don't mind long hours, hard work and going a couple years without a pay rise and job security only for a couple of years, then IT might be for you.
If you don't fit into the above then you should be looking elsewhere

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