All depends what you want to do, try going and working for someone like Deloitte in their consulting arm without a degree, you'll struggle.
Not saying you definitely need one, but to say you'll never need one for IT is a bit much imho.
An IT degree idea
- Thread starter shotgunshand
- Start date
All depends what you want to do, try going and working for someone like Deloitte in their consulting arm without a degree, you'll struggle.
Not saying you definitely need one, but to say you'll never need one for IT is a bit much imho.
None of those would get you into management where I've worked (or am working now). And not having a degree means you'd need at least 5-6 years relevant experience to not have your CV binned by the HR sanity checks.
As ever with these generic "IT" threads, it really depends which branch of IT we're talking about.
Soldato
- Joined
- 24 Nov 2002
- Posts
- 16,379
- Location
- 38.744281°N 104.846806°W
As I evidently didn't read the OP properly?
I'd totally agree with not doing computer science. There's a lot of theory involved. Do a degree that involves doing practical stuff. I'm doing a degree in Computer Security although there's bits of theory involved i do get to experiment with a lot of tools that a lot of people will never hear of.
Permabanned
- Joined
- 28 Dec 2009
- Posts
- 13,052
- Location
- london
If you are going to get a degree with an idea of working IT, you would probably be better off getting one related to the english language, communication or management or similar. That way you can still pick up the IT knowledge yourself and not write like a 11 year old girl in her sms, in your firm wide emails. But in saying that i have worked with people with compsci degrees and their written language skills were poor. So the idea that someone coming out of university is going to have a higher standard of work ethic and competence is not necessarily correct but if you are hiring someone and you have to choose between someone with a degree and someone without, then the person with the degree will win.
Soldato
- Joined
- 13 Aug 2010
- Posts
- 3,114
OP as a few people have already responded, the real question is what is your ultimate goal ?
If you want to stay in a engineering role (front line support) then experience and your standard Microsoft qualifications will be enough but if you want to spread your wings and gain a more senior role then firstly you must decide which branch of 'IT' want to go into.
As you know, there are hundreds of roles covering all areas whether it's Storage, Backup, Networks (WAN or Local), Servers, Software, End-user Computing etc then you have the Architects / Consultants who have the knowledge and experience to span these technologies.
I have a couple of degrees - BSc in Computer Science and MSc in Pure Mathematics and a bunch of professional qualifications from the likes of ISEB, BCS and Cisco.
I found the Computer Science degree to give me a good grounding and understanding of the theories behind the physics of computing which is still relevant today. I work as an Chief Architect for a global IT company which is involved in all industires and yes we are bigger than IBM.
Now I'm not offering a 'silver bullet' to your career but I started as a Cobol 85 programmer many moons ago and have strived to better my previous job role with my career choices - be mindful that only you know what your motivations are and therefore only you can push for the approriate job role.
PS. The 'xvid' point did make me chuckle, I have guys here who can transform a 200,000 end-user environment but I wouldn't challenge them on which CODEC is best for ripping / burning movies. The question I would ask them is which Blade system would provide the highest availability / performance / total cost of ownership / whether I should virtualise the tin and application layers - LOL
If you want to stay in a engineering role (front line support) then experience and your standard Microsoft qualifications will be enough but if you want to spread your wings and gain a more senior role then firstly you must decide which branch of 'IT' want to go into.
As you know, there are hundreds of roles covering all areas whether it's Storage, Backup, Networks (WAN or Local), Servers, Software, End-user Computing etc then you have the Architects / Consultants who have the knowledge and experience to span these technologies.
I have a couple of degrees - BSc in Computer Science and MSc in Pure Mathematics and a bunch of professional qualifications from the likes of ISEB, BCS and Cisco.
I found the Computer Science degree to give me a good grounding and understanding of the theories behind the physics of computing which is still relevant today. I work as an Chief Architect for a global IT company which is involved in all industires and yes we are bigger than IBM.
Now I'm not offering a 'silver bullet' to your career but I started as a Cobol 85 programmer many moons ago and have strived to better my previous job role with my career choices - be mindful that only you know what your motivations are and therefore only you can push for the approriate job role.
PS. The 'xvid' point did make me chuckle, I have guys here who can transform a 200,000 end-user environment but I wouldn't challenge them on which CODEC is best for ripping / burning movies. The question I would ask them is which Blade system would provide the highest availability / performance / total cost of ownership / whether I should virtualise the tin and application layers - LOL