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river Forums Junkie Location: Land of Oz Registered: June 2004	Re: Dilema.....Job Wise Sat, 04 June 2005 00:02 Hi, IT, like most industries can be good or bad, depending upon what you're doing in that industry. I'm in IT and I have to admit most of it was great. The area where I specialise in is the Financial Markets/Trading Systems and there's always new technology and always something to do. Fortunately the Financial Markets usually have the money to throw into new systems and things like that, as opposed to the Retail and Wholesale Banking areas. Before that I worked to chip level doing microprocessor and microcontroller hardware and software deign and development. I really loved that. The thing I dislike the most about IT is the push from large vendors to constantly put out new software that requires expensive learning and you always seem to be learning something new that, in reality, doesn't do anything much better than what you had. Plus the "dumbing down" of technical people who used to get into the guts of system programming and stuff like that, who now just need to sit in front of a pretty window-panel screen and click on the various options. Something goes wrong you call the vendor 'cos there's no way you know the internals of the product to fix it yourself. Programming used to be fun, and you used to need to know a fair bit to do it properly. Now, however, with products like Java and C# and .NET just about any monkey can program. Furthermore, your code can now be absolute shit (run like a pig and hog memory) but it's okay, we'll just whack in a faster (or second) processor and put in an extra gig of RAM and she'll be okay. Hardware repairs are the same. No more board level repair work. You just throw out the offending component and plug in a new one. You've just become a board jockey. Whoo-Hoo!!!!! Hardly mind challenging stuff. However, there are areas in IT where you can get some satisfaction and enjoyment out of your work. It depends on exactly what you want to do and to try and find that area within the industry that appeals to you. When you wake up each day and curse the heavens that you have to go to your shithouse job, then it's time for a change. seeyuzz river [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	Dilema.....Job Wise	KOFFEE-BLACK	Thu, 02 June 2005 21:53
	Re: Dilema.....Job Wise	Hi-Ace	Thu, 02 June 2005 22:32
	Re: Dilema.....Job Wise	KOFFEE-BLACK	Fri, 03 June 2005 00:13
	Re: Dilema.....Job Wise	ra_28	Fri, 03 June 2005 00:23
	Re: Dilema.....Job Wise	rob_RA40	Fri, 03 June 2005 00:26
	Re: Dilema.....Job Wise	TurboRA28	Fri, 03 June 2005 00:27
	Re: Dilema.....Job Wise	KOFFEE-BLACK	Fri, 03 June 2005 00:40
	Re: Dilema.....Job Wise	rob_RA40	Fri, 03 June 2005 00:43
	Re: Dilema.....Job Wise	acreese	Tue, 07 June 2005 07:23
	Re: Dilema.....Job Wise	CLG	Fri, 03 June 2005 14:55
	Re: Dilema.....Job Wise	BOCKA	Fri, 03 June 2005 00:40
	Re: Dilema.....Job Wise	TurboRA28	Fri, 03 June 2005 00:48
	Re: Dilema.....Job Wise	KOFFEE-BLACK	Fri, 03 June 2005 01:00
	Re: Dilema.....Job Wise	Mookie	Fri, 03 June 2005 01:01
	Re: Dilema.....Job Wise	Ribfeast	Fri, 03 June 2005 01:17
	Re: Dilema.....Job Wise	KOFFEE-BLACK	Fri, 03 June 2005 01:20
	Re: Dilema.....Job Wise	AJ200	Fri, 03 June 2005 01:50
	Re: Dilema.....Job Wise	jackel	Fri, 03 June 2005 11:20
	Re: Dilema.....Job Wise	peeack	Fri, 03 June 2005 16:39
	Re: Dilema.....Job Wise	shcao	Fri, 03 June 2005 16:45
	Re: Dilema.....Job Wise	thu187	Fri, 03 June 2005 16:14
	Re: Dilema.....Job Wise	KOFFEE-BLACK	Fri, 03 June 2005 21:43
	Re: Dilema.....Job Wise	Hi-Ace	Fri, 03 June 2005 21:59
	Re: Dilema.....Job Wise	Yian	Fri, 03 June 2005 22:30
	Re: Dilema.....Job Wise	river	Sat, 04 June 2005 00:02
	Re: Dilema.....Job Wise	Sprinter-Saurus	Sat, 04 June 2005 14:20
	Re: Dilema.....Job Wise	KOFFEE-BLACK	Mon, 06 June 2005 05:11
	Re: Dilema.....Job Wise	unforgiven	Mon, 06 June 2005 05:23
	Re: Dilema.....Job Wise	EldarO	Mon, 06 June 2005 06:05
	Re: Dilema.....Job Wise	Sabbie	Mon, 06 June 2005 06:30
	Re: Dilema.....Job Wise	Mookie	Tue, 07 June 2005 03:04
	Re: Dilema.....Job Wise	shcao	Tue, 07 June 2005 04:50
	Re: Dilema.....Job Wise	bubbles	Tue, 07 June 2005 04:55

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