GetStartedInIT.com has posted a new article: 7 Reasons Why You Should be Starting a Career in IT
GetStartedInIT.com has posted a new article called 7 Reasons Why You Should be Starting a Career in IT
7 Reasons Why You Should be Starting a Career in IT
So this information may already be obvious to some of you, but very often people want to fly head first into starting a career in IT based purely on a TV ad that promises them salaries of £40k ($60k-65).
Sure, the money’s good, but you can only succeed if you have an interest, which will later develop into a passion.
In fact I’m going to be brutally honest…if you don’t have a true interest, close this window, starting a career in IT isn’t for you. And I’ll be honest, it’s not for everyone. Being in IT is fun, dynamic and ever-changing, but it does require work to progress. Luckily it’s one of those industries where it doesn’t always feel like work.
OK hopefully, you’re still here.
In my opinion, here are 7 benefits of starting a career in IT are:
Once you’ve made a start in IT, you can progress as quickly as you want! Once you are in an environment where people are working with and talking about IT, it will generate questions in your own mind that you will then have to research yourself to get answers. When you start getting these answers it means you are learning. The more you learn, the more you progress. Simple!
It’s a fast paced, exciting industry that is constantly evolving. IT never stands still. People joke about their PCs being out of date before they even get them out of the shop. While this is an obvious exaggeration, it can be as quick paced in the enterprise.
IT engineers worry that their skills will be out of date as soon as they sit an exam, or learn a new product. This certainly shouldn’t be a worry, more of a benefit. Think about it, if your skills are out of date, then so are other people’s. If a new version of the product comes out, it puts people on a much more level playing field.
Unless you are working in certain cash-rich businesses, the technology won’t change with every new release. It’s late 2012 now, and some businesses I consult for are still using Windows Server 2003! Whether this is because of available cash, or certain critical line of business applications don’t work with newer operating systems, it means that your skills will be in demand for a few years.
It is exciting. You always have something new to read about, or set up in a Lab and test, and usually it’s pretty interesting stuff! Compare this to maybe a job in accountancy!
Developing solutions for people and businesses can honestly be a great feeling. When someone is relying on your expertise to build them a solution or system, whether its for security, efficiency or performance, knowing that you’ve done the research, testing and delivery, and in the end have a happy customer…it’s a very good feeling!
You can take your skills anywhere. Starting an IT career in the UK, or wherever it is you are from, immediately means once you have experience, you are employable all over the world. You could try contracting jobs in Australia, or a 12 month post in Brazil – the choice is yours!
So I hope that gives you some reasons of why you would consider starting a career in IT, and why the primary reason should not be money!