Why Does Everyone Want to Be in IT On Here? :dead:

[Gold]

Relegate IT to fixing computers brehs :barkley:

Start threads without knowing what the hell you talkin about brehs :barkley:

I swear when most people think of IT, they only think of entry level support.

That shyt is entry level... ENTRY LEVEL.

If you're still answering phones and resetting passwords more than 3 years into your IT career, you fukking up.

You have to make a choice of where your career will lead you:
-Network Engineer
-Information Security
-Application Engineer
-Management (Director, VP, CIO/CTO)
-and more

Only 1 of these requires school (MBA for VP, CIO/CTO) so there is no reason to not advance.

Too many people are fine making 50k a year answering phones and resetting passwords when they can be making 100k (minimum) running a NOC, monitoring office uptimes, and configuring servers.

I've done both, both are actually pretty simple. 1 just pays twice as much

 

[semtex]

I swear when most people think of IT, they only think of entry level support.

That shyt is entry level... ENTRY LEVEL.

If you're still answering phones and resetting passwords more than 3 years into your IT career, you fukking up.

You have to make a choice of where your career will lead you:
-Network Engineer
-Information Security
-Application Engineer
-Management (Director, VP, CIO/CTO)
-and more

Only 1 of these requires school (MBA for VP, CIO/CTO) so there is no reason to not advance.

Too many people are fine making 50k a year answering phones and resetting passwords when they can be making 100k (minimum) running a NOC, monitoring office uptimes, and configuring servers.

I've done both, both are actually pretty simple. 1 just pays twice as much

I'm a software engineer.

 

[Gold]

I'm a software engineer.

That's what my brother is too.
But I guess I'm biased because he doesn't consider himself IT at all and neither do I.

I guess its because years ago I worked IT support for a Software company so in my mind there was a very clear distinction between what I did and what they did.

But... it was software engineers that designed the proprietary ticketing system that we used back then.

Do you consider yourself IT as a software engineer? Technically you are but if someone asked if you were IT would you respond yes?

 

[Perpetual Beast]

Break it down for me bruh whAt are your saleing and how we get started? and don't say no dumb shyt like go to school

I'm an SEO, so I sell everything from digital strategies/consultation, technological platforms, optimized content , paid advertisement (YouTube, Google, High authority publications) , and Paid Social Media (Facebook,Twitter, and Pinterest), and B2B / CPG commerce..


To get started, read everything Neil Patel, Moz.com, and Jon Cooper put out...your degree does not matter if you can demonstrate the knowledge

TV and radio are phasing out, and the future of marketing is going digital..that's where big companies are spending big money

Ironically, I do have Certs (4), but it's for Google Analytics...you can get these types of Certs by registering an Adwords account with Google.

 

[eazy253]

Sales people eventually burn out. Never hear about that happening to IT people.

why?

 

[eazy253]

Man salesman can be annoying as fukk. I used have them fakkits calling me damn near every day wanting to try to sell me software. They're worse than them nikkas on the corner trying to force you to buy their struggle mixtapes

jeez you just described me

 

[↓R↑LYB]

Don't know why anyone's hating on IT guys. The main reason I can think of is you're independent, mostly, and you really don't have a cap on your earning potential. You're there to get a job done. No one above you, and definitely not middle mgmt, knows how long that job will take. You can fukk off if you want, drag it out if that suits you, or wrap that shyt up if the incentives are right.

Again, no one fukks with you but other IT guys, if you're newer and have to work as a team. Takes a lot of brains to do that shyt too.

I thought about it, but decided to pursue Int. Business.

You get it. All the shyt you described is how I go about it. I work when I want to work and don't when I don't want to. In my 10 year career I've taken 2.5 years off just to chill and fukk around. Went back to work when I wanted and usually ended up making more money than I did before I left. If I could go back I would have spent at least one of those years in Brazil

But you have to really know you're shyt though.

 

[↓R↑LYB]

Doesn't matter...if I told you I made 50k or if I told you I made 250k it doesn't make a lick of difference...the message still stands and is true...

On the internet, you find the most elite humans known to mankind...six figure salary, 6'4 and ripped to shreds, Kim K and Rhianna are ugly to em, they've traveled the world, all while being 21...

In other words, nothing people say about themselves on the net holds any weight...but I'm 33, work over 12 hours a day, work with big contracts, and have given countless actionable insights pertaining to real estate and digital marketing/SEO...dictate my worth off that

Come on now breh. Of course it matters. If you're making less than the IT brehs it's gonna make you look kinda funny in the light

I'll repost the picture I used earlier in case you missed it

 

[ball15life]

Every IT person I've ever known is overworked, underpaid, and complains about the over saturation and stagnation of the field.

Every Sales person I've ever known hates their job.

JOBS ARE LAME.

I dunno man...the overwork/underpaid argument can be made for a lot of lower level IT positions. It also may be dependent on where you live. There is no such thing as over saturation over here

 

[ball15life]

Hell in the DMV government IT contracting is big bucks- consultant companies experiencing 100-300% increase in revenue annually. Not to mention a lot of the dudes who own IT staffing companies don't know shyt about IT. they just they have the money to Bid on contracts AND basically outsource everything to smaller companies-

Imma leave this thread soon I dont wanna drop to much info
@ it fixing computers.......

They don't hear you though

If people truly knew the wide range of jobs IT has...half of the coli would be in it. It can be a labor of love if you find your lane

 

[Software]

They don't hear you though

If people truly knew the wide range of jobs IT has...half of the coli would be in it. It can be a labor of love if you find your lane

Mobile apps
Make some for the boss while using the shyt you learn making theirs to make your own genius app and generate cash through ads

 

[semtex]

That's what my brother is too.
But I guess I'm biased because he doesn't consider himself IT at all and neither do I.

I guess its because years ago I worked IT support for a Software company so in my mind there was a very clear distinction between what I did and what they did.

But... it was software engineers that designed the proprietary ticketing system that we used back then.

Do you consider yourself IT as a software engineer? Technically you are but if someone asked if you were IT would you respond yes?

No lol but IT is such a broad term

 

[Robbie3000]

What kind of sales are you in?

 

[BobbyBooshay]

Once I get my AWS cert


"Going broke at the dealership"

 

[Perpetual Beast]

yeah crackhead logic let dudes think that we going straight to the money. IT is also in Sales, different software systems have business development departments for solicitation.

You cant do Anything these days without the input of IT in some way shape or form.

Do some research young man...People wouldn't know about IT if it wasn't for sales

CEO or company gets hit with a law suit, entire business collapses, you're stuck at ground zero...the first hire to rebuild the empire would be sales...IT is very low on the hierarchy