IT division= Bullcrap

[jefhatfield]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: IT division= Bullcrap

Originally posted by Chisholm


I was a workstudy/mac lab manager in a graphic design cpu lab for 3 years while I got my degree in elementary education. I got THAT position cuz I had just purchased my first mac a few months earlier and therefor had experience (I took the machine apart 20 minutes after getting it home, I'm just that kind of guy).

All my PC experience was from student teaching and having to fix the piece of Sh*t PC's that the schools had in the classrooms and libraries. Then I graduated and got my first teaching gig as a "technology teacher" in a sixth grade school. Then proration hit and the school system had to cut like 30 teacher units. I got the axe along with 29 or so fellow first year teachers. I was replaced by a P.E. coach/ bus driver.

Couldn't get a job teaching so I answered a university call for a computer network technician job. Got the job because:

1. I have a degree (not in computer science, Early Childhood and Elementary Education no less).
2. I had years of computer experience.
3. They figured if I could put up with a classroom of kids and make them understand technology, surely I could explain things to people with PhD's. (even our friggin' secretary has a PhD)

Here I am 4 years later lovin' on my job! Funny though, I made over 28K my first year teaching and now after 3 pay raises and 4 years I make just over 27K. And don't get the summer off anymore!

Certification and education aren't everything, but they have their place sometimes. Where that place is, well I don't know, suppose its different for everyone.

anyway, sorry for the tangent.

cheers!
-John

your story is similar to ones i hear

you have a natural need to take things apart and like technical stuff...otherwise you wouldn't have messed with it

many with degrees who are in IT, like you and me, have a degree but not an IT degree

positions for hr officers (field i studied) are very limited and there is much more of a need for techies...so here i am, too

one of the posters here has a degree in a language or history, and he is a techie also...limited jobs as historians, i guess