Advice on getting into IT after redundincy

magyar

cybershot wrote:

CAN we please keep to the original post instead of petty issues,

this is a persons long time futre after all

Apologies; I shouldn't have risen to the bait.

[Deleted User]

Here's a question.. are you going to be happy with someone like me, 26, being your manager? I've been in professional IT for 1 1/2 years and computational research for 2 before that - i'm due to become a junior manager very soon.

Would you happy being subserviant to a young whipper-snapper?

magyar

Cybershot, with regards to the question "you're confused, what would you spend the money on?", my first step would be to see if there's a similar thing to this where you are

http://www.wiltscoll.ac.uk/careers/nextstep.asp

They offer free advice on career planning.

cybershot_2

ringo_24601 wrote:

Here's a question.. are you going to be happy with someone like me, 26, being your manager? I've been in professional IT for 1 1/2 years and computational research for 2 before that - i'm due to become a junior manager very soon.

Would you happy being subserviant to a young whipper-snapper?

Thats the situation in every job. why would there be a problem.

nej

When I was 18 I did tech support for Compuserve and was made a supervisor, so I was grading 40+ year olds on their calls. Very odd and I'm sure a bit demeaning for them sometimes.

As for over-the-hill at 40 or 50 in IT, I'm 28 and the youngest (by a way) in our development team. All the rest of our hardware/software guys are over 40, and several are over 50. So not always true.

They are mostly life-long programmers though, and are a great source of knowledge and expertise for me.

cybershot_2

what about a career in fixing pc's ect

magyar

To be honest, not much money in it and very oversubscribed. Have you thought about trying to get into some of the less obvious bits of IT, like telecoms, cash registers, things like that?

L3nny

I am working in the bottom rung of IT and have been stuck here for 5 years, I got this job when I was 21.

I have mates my who started in jobs such as Carpenters, electricians, plubmers etc and they earn loads more than me.

Basically as school kids are told that working in IT will make them loads of money and doing a manual job is something to be ashamed of.

Therefore there are loads more kids going into IT and hardly anyone going into more traditional types of employment meaning the skills shortage is there not in IT.

Although i do sit in a nice warm office with access to the internet when the freeze their bums of on a building site with only local radio for entertainment

peter999

L3nny wrote:

I have mates my who started in jobs such as Carpenters, electricians, plubmers etc and they earn loads more than me.

Lots of work, lots of flexibility to change jobs.
Opportunity to make money on the side.
Trade skills are not made redundant overnight.

peter999

magyar

We have a general culture which says that manual work is something to be ashamed of - people don't like getting their hands dirty. Totally wrong.