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your best bet is to look for junior positions or to take a year off and do nothing (seriously) except learn c#/java/ruby/whatever. if you want to be a developer then you face some pretty tough competition in my opinion. i had a friend of a friend finish uni and was looking for work (before the www boom) for about 2 years before i got him a job at the company i was leaving.other than that, there are plenty of areas in IT (security, admin, helldesk, pre-sales(?)) you could get into.. but in this day and age, if you're working in IT it pretty much needs to be your life if you want to get anywhere
QuoteComputer Science/CISDON'T CONFUSE YOUR DEGREE WITH THAT OF A COMPUTER SCIENTIST.LOOK FOR A COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEM CAREER, MINIMAL PROGRAMMING.http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos258.htm
Quote from: The Watcher on May 02, 2008, 01:13:06 AMyour best bet is to look for junior positions or to take a year off and do nothing (seriously) except learn c#/java/ruby/whatever. if you want to be a developer then you face some pretty tough competition in my opinion. i had a friend of a friend finish uni and was looking for work (before the www boom) for about 2 years before i got him a job at the company i was leaving.other than that, there are plenty of areas in IT (security, admin, helldesk, pre-sales(?)) you could get into.. but in this day and age, if you're working in IT it pretty much needs to be your life if you want to get anywhereDamn...the thing is, when I was taking these courses, I figured that there were many areas in IT that meant I wouldn't have to be good at programming, but just from doing the online job search, it seems like there are a lot of job openings for coders, and I didn't think it was like that. I figured that there was stiff competition, and that many companies outsourced these jobs to other countries where they do the same thing for $25,000 and less. I have always thought about doing security, as well as database. With security, I was definitely thinking about the whole experience thing...it seems like a company would want someone to come in and know exactly what they are doing, versus having to train someone to do it. I know that security is a major issue, and it is not a "fad" type of job that will become extinct anytime soon. I took three courses in it, and they all gave me a basic background on it...but it seems like I'd basically have to know how to hack just to be an efficient IT security worker.Thanks for the input.