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Story: Is IT a good career choice?
Posted by: Steve Warner (Tuesday 9 August 2005, 3:40 PM)
When I started in DP (note: not IT), it was really interesting and hands-on. This is back in 1974. Now, although I still enjoy the challange of making the machines do the work the clients want, either in my development role or in support, I wouldn't reccomend it as a career. It's become highly specialised in that nowadays you have to know your specific narrow subject extreemly well, consequently (for me) a lot of the variety and interest is lost. Also, I find ICT staff tend to be undervalued and scapegoated and quite often you are stuck in professional salary scales that take no account of some of the outrageous hours you have to work.
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