IT Jobs - The best?!

intellix · 15 Jan 2008 at 12:33

Hey, im currently a student studying a HND in IT and will progress onto the degree for Software

What are the best jobs in IT, what do you work as in IT and how much do you get paid etc...

At the moment im looking into IT Consultancy which pays about £46k a year, seems good, any other IT consultants that know what this job requires, is like?

intellix · 15 Jan 2008 at 13:32

its not straight from the HND into the 46k job, its after you have a degree in programming, which ill get after completing my HND.

You start on 28k a year and 5k for a car then after 6 months of working with them (training included on top of what you know as well) you get around 34k yearly with bonus of about 5k, car allowance of 5k with christmas bonus.

All you need to join is to hold a software degree and feel like you have a gift for programming

(i dont actually know anyone in this company btw so its not my dad as someone suggested)

10 years of experience before the degree, definately

(obviously not been programming for that long though)

I'm not saying im going to be on this kind of wage or that I will get the job that im looking at, just going by what ive read (someone also said he knows an IT consultant that makes 100k a year but only what someone said in the pub)

Sorry for creating such an upstir :S

intellix · 15 Jan 2008 at 14:49

Thanks for all the input guys, even if the majority of it is negative

From what i've read, a lot of people are assuming that im one of those guys who decides to take a career in IT because they know how to install their grandmas ipod and setup her skybox.

The majority of people on my course have absolutely no experience using computers and think they'll get a job through knowing the theoretical side of their assignments.

Most of this thread has been spent bashing one idea

what else is available? web design, development, graphics designer? any of those about?

intellix · 16 Jan 2008 at 02:37

a few pages back i was being slashed for saying 46k now we've got people on 75k+

Do we have any game designers, developers here because I can imagine they are fantastic jobs...

Programming side... what languages are the best to know for most money etc because in job terms its not all about being the most efficient language C++ etc but i can imagine its also about time taken to make etc (something quick in VB)