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If you love the ins and outs of business and working with people, give it a thought.
Wow, i had no idea salaries in retail scaled like that. Almost makes me wonder how this has gone so unnoticed by so many people. Certainly makes slaving away at an IT desk for £35k look rather pathetic![]()
Stay away from computing (I'm doing a degree in it so I have some idea of what I'm talking about), I've also done a lot of research on the job prospects and it's not good. Only at the very top consultant level is the pay good and you need to work many years to get there on crappy wage jobs where you will be doing overtime on badly managed projects.
Definitely go for the mechanics route, it's higher pay and it's much more in demand. The labour market for IT is saturated because of outsourcing to India.
Stay away from computing (I'm doing a degree in it so I have some idea of what I'm talking about), I've also done a lot of research on the job prospects and it's not good. Only at the very top consultant level is the pay good and you need to work many years to get there on crappy wage jobs where you will be doing overtime on badly managed projects.
Rubbish.
If you do, either you aren't trying hard enough, or you didn't do enough work at uni. Get a good degree, and there are good IT positions for grads.
My housemate left Uni last year and is a Technical Consultant for Oracle.
Now I have read the comments on the consultant definition and I would say he was a consultant as he works at client sites. The IT industry moves so fast that people tend to become specialised very quickly anyway
Pay and benefit seem ok with a big ladder of promotions to climb.
Help! I was about to apply for a course in applied computing. Should I change my mind? I'm starting to worry after reading this. I thought it would be an interesting course but is it in fact not?, or are you talking about hardware side?
I think it depends on your definition of good. I wouldnt consider the salaries ive seen at anything below top level to be very good for the amount of work involved. Most of the positions ive seen are ~£30k tops, and i live in the thames valley. When salaried out and taxed that doesnt leave you with much, and while scope to progress is there, the scope for a huge salary isnt unless you really shine.
If Oracle sent me some spotty youth less than a year in and asked me for ~£900 a day for his services i'd be having a very serious conversation with my account manager.
I was five years in before anyone called me a consultant.
He isn't spotty and he's 28.
The have 6 months of intensive training before being billable and they certainly aren't stupid people.
Why do you need experience in a technical role in IT anyway? As long as your technically excellent and can use/programe with the product.
In 5 years time everything will have changed anyway and you will have had to learn new skills/programs/coding anyway.