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Story: Tackle skills shortage, urges government CIO
Smoke and Mirrors
With increasing off shoring once you get the right skills, those that need you have found a cheaper overseas supplier. Just look at real salaries, I've known office workers getting paid more than the IT guy who is telling them how to use the system. Loads of stress, loads of continual study, lots to keep nearly up to date, and a messed up social life because you are staying late to meet a deadline or fix a server! Be an IT Professional if you love IT or are a code junkie but don't go there for the money. You might get lucky and do very well, but most I know, get an average living. People often don't appreciate what goes into the backend of this stuff, because they don't see it and even if they do they don't understand it. I've worked months on a database, and minutes on a desktop icon, guess which got the praise and got them excited?
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