IT Professionals- In here!

BoonMonkey said:
Probably had a query like this in the past... But here we are!

I want to break into the IT sector, start at the bottom and work my way up of course. At the moment I'm working a dead end job which doesn't interest me in the slightest... only there for the money.

Currently 18 years old, got a merit in a BTEC National Award level 3 IT Practitioners, which I studied for A-Levels. As well as a range of other mediocre GCSE results.

What would my next best bet be to do? I can't get into Uni I don't think due to nowhere near enough UCAS points. Seriously want to grab the bull by the horns and start doing something I love and get my life going on track!
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I went to uni with the same college quals, did Computer Systems Engineering at UWE. The uni isn't top by any means but the course very much so is, grades at college have no reflectance on how you'll be at uni.

Doing an actual interesting technical course not a noddy IT course and you might flourish if that's your thing. I ended up with a First and waltzed into a 27k graduate job before I'd even finished my final year, so too did every single other person on the course.
 
Well further to my original post, I've just been offered a technical pre sales role at a market leading co. in c. London :D

Salary jump is pretty good and means less travel. Win win!
 
Hey IT guys - quick question for you...

Just starting out in the IT world. I'm doing a Computer Systems Admin Specialists course (I'm in the US, btw) and will be doing A+ as well most likely.

How much networking stuff does a systems admin typically do? Obviously it will vary (you could end up being a one-man IT dept in a small company...) but I'm just trying to get a handle on how in-depth I need to go on the networking front.
 
started out with a local company in about 1984 doing QC and repairs, went to a major multinational as service engineer about 1987 and moved to my current role in 1991, still working as service enigineer (also team leader) break fix and some install on enterprise level equipment

looking at some of the slaries for helpdesk/admin/programming etc it;s surprising more folks don't give hardware a try
 
Curio said:
Hey IT guys - quick question for you...

Just starting out in the IT world. I'm doing a Computer Systems Admin Specialists course (I'm in the US, btw) and will be doing A+ as well most likely.

How much networking stuff does a systems admin typically do? Obviously it will vary (you could end up being a one-man IT dept in a small company...) but I'm just trying to get a handle on how in-depth I need to go on the networking front.
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Depends on the company can vary massively...but generally a sys admin does most if not all things in smaller firms and less network focused in bigger ones with their own network teams :)
 
Rotty said:
started out with a local company in about 1984 doing QC and repairs, went to a major multinational as service engineer about 1987 and moved to my current role in 1991, still working as service enigineer (also team leader) break fix and some install on enterprise level equipment

looking at some of the slaries for helpdesk/admin/programming etc it;s surprising more folks don't give hardware a try
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I had an interview for a graduate hardware role and failed quite dramatically :p. I have decent hardware knowledge for a 'software guy' but when they asked me to draw a 4-to-1 multiplexer on the board my weakness was revealed :p. To be fair if they'd of asked me 3 years ago I could have done it, but hardware engineering is really electronics with a dash of computer architecture nowadays.

Regardless it seems hardware engineers job is to moan about things and repeatedly say 'they can just fix that in software' :D.
 
god i feel old seeing everyone else's dates

I've been in the game since 1995 where i started on 8k a year, I've been up to the heady heights of 200k ish a year contracting and back down to rock bottom £6 an hour in a shop :p I'm holding steady with a very nice salary now and I intend to keep it that way :) definitely a good industry to play in, albeit rather sad and geeky :cool:
 
Will Gill said:
god i feel old seeing everyone else's dates

I've been in the game since 1995 where i started on 8k a year, I've been up to the heady heights of 200k ish a year contracting and back down to rock bottom £6 an hour in a shop :p I'm holding steady with a very nice salary now and I intend to keep it that way :) definitely a good industry to play in, albeit rather sad and geeky :cool:
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Let me make you feel younger again... In 1995 I had been working in IT for 8 years already.
 
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