My inerest in I.T has died...

I currently work as an on-site IT guy for a large company, and in the future want to get into networking, and eventually run my own business designing and implementing networks for other businesses... can't see me getting bored of the industry to be honest if I stay on this track. I think the day you get bored is the day you can't push yourself any further or have got into a rut.

I was going to go into Journalism until I found that over 80% of journos can't even afford a mortgage. No thanks. You have to strike a balance between what you like to do, and what you can earn to live on in an increasingly material world. If you have one or theother rather than a blend of both you're bound to be unhappy.
 
Another one here.

I'm an IT consultant, having graduated in Comp science 2yrs ago I now have literally no outside interest in IT.

I sold all my gaming pc bits, my shuttle and all my random mods and junk like that. Now I have a laptop which runs slow as hell but what do I care, it plays music, movies and allows me to surf the net.

I lost 120gb of stuff the other day, and I can't even be bothered to try and recover it, the HD is just under my bed, maybe I'll recover it some day?.

I just found that I grew out IT as a hobby, along with the 9-5 being on computers.
 
Wow i was saying this to my girlfriend the other night...

Since i got a job in the industry, working behind one all day, i can no longer go home and fire up my machine enthusiastically.

How i wish i was born early enough to be a bedroom coder back in the 80's.
 
I'm just glad I realised it now rather than a few years into an IT career. By then I would've had other commitments like a mortgage and possibly a family, so a career change would possibly be extremely difficult financially. Then I would be really stuck in a rut of doing something I don't enjoy but having no option but to stick with it.
 
If you're bored of I.T. after working in it for only a few years then i'd say you had no real passion for it in the first place. :)
 
Richdog said:
If you're bored of I.T. after working in it for only a few years then i'd say you had no real passion for it in the first place. :)
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Been 10 years for me.

I guess the biggest mistake I made was getting into the software side. Perhaps if I had stayed with hardware, I might have been ok.

But as it stands now, it's dead to me. All of it.

Still, I am quite enthusiastic about making a complete career change.

Just wish I could leave right now, rather than needing just a few more months of my current wages to finish paying off credit card.

The realy challenge for me is going to be making it through the next few months before I can leave.
 
i went through that. got out of the IT industry, now in a job i love.

best thing i ever did. better paid, better prospects, better life.

no brainer imho
 
Richdog said:
If you're bored of I.T. after working in it for only a few years then i'd say you had no real passion for it in the first place. :)
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I haven't even started! Just finished uni in July.

I suppose there's a difference between enjoying something as a hobby in your spare time and doing it 9-5, 5 days a week.
 
GuruJockStrap said:
I haven't even started! Just finished uni in July.

I suppose there's a difference between enjoying something as a hobby in your spare time and doing it 9-5, 5 days a week.
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big time....

a passing interest isnt the same as a 9 - 5!

dont confuse the two... i did and hated it for 4 years!
 
Same happened to me, I was/am self taught using pc's back in the days when being able to list MS oFFice as a skill was a job winner. i was a web developer and like you all, spent 8 hours a day looking at fonts and colours and code, my non work life was trying to break my pc;s for an extra frame, fully fragging, icq, msn , learning about wardriving , trading files on ftp's etc . I did this for about 5 years for a large company and slowly the joy was gone and i would just h8 work and became most unproductive, but as no one really knew what i was did at work - it could just coast and coast. So after a fait bit of planning I quit job, sold house and all my worldly goods and never looked back.

I travelled, move area with my family and tried different, non pc realte jobs, ive been a landscape gardener, swimming coach, almost a professional scuba diver, waiter, tried a few business start ups and all have been part of broadening my life without a monitor stuck 2 feet away.

The hard part is finding what you would like to do and making the change is a slow process with many frustrating periods in it. If you ask about there are not many people who would not swap their job for another so its a common problem. I think its taken me 3 further years to find a job i really enjoy and it doesn't involve too much monitor staring.

Again i had a fast PC with all the apps I ever never needed, now what do I really use the pc for ? surfing, its running slow, but thats tough. All this facebook and bebo social networking sites have missed me, far to much time involved - thats spare time is for the 360 and the family !!

So take good look at your self and if you want to change , make steps to do it and eventually you will.
thanks for the therapy!
KJ
 
yes, working in IT has killed my passion for it as a hobby. But i'm not so bothered by that - i'd rather bring home the £££ that it pays me and get other hobbies than work a lower paid job and spend all my money on needless PC upgrades.
 
ffallic said:
Been 10 years for me.

I guess the biggest mistake I made was getting into the software side. Perhaps if I had stayed with hardware, I might have been ok.
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Now that I can understand to a large extent... I have heard many horror stories about the software side of things and how incredibly soul-destroying it can be.

I like hardware... I like knowing how things work and how to make things work with each other, and I like solving problems. The closest I get to "software" is installing/re-installing/trouble-shooting apps just like i've done at home for ages... it's comfortable and familiar, I don't do it enough to find it repetitive yet, and i'm always learning new things. I'm also interested in going into the project management side of it too... getting involved in the many projects my company has going throughout the year, and having some real impact in any of the decision-making processes would be great. I.T. definately isn't all about sitting at a computer 24/7, and the more I learn about the industry through my company the more I realise how varied and interesting it is. :)

But yeah... coding etc... ugh.
 
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I too prefer the hardware side rather than Software. A highlight for my day(In work that is lol) would be physically sorting out the server racks or Desktops around the office or something. Still I find working in the office the most annoying aspect of the job. Cant wait to be Fixing Computer/Network/Communications equipment out in the field on operations woo.
 
sold my last desktop pc.... didnt actually feel well using it, even when playing games. Now just use lappy which is great, much more relaxing. Planning on getting a ps3 later this year and switching to that instead of pc gaming. Gotta make the most of my HDTV :D
 
I'm only 15, starting my last year in school in september. I used to be interested into coding etc but i got bored with it along with hardware. However, since i had to set up some home networks for family and other people, i'm interested in networking and hardware again, i like to see how things physically work compared to a boring code. I'am now hoping to take some sort of course in networking etc at college and hopefully uni and take it as a career.
 
I felt the same way.... i ended up getting a plot, grow veg and enjoy the time i spend outside digging and seeing spuds, carrots and strawberrys grow...

also gets me fit as sitting down all day isnt good for me either...

Dont worry, we all get this feeling, the trick is to use the job to pay for the thing you love doing..

ColiN
 
GuruJockStrap said:
Join the club.
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That's pretty strange. Absolutely everything in that post (and the subsequent one by yourself) sound's EXACTLY the same as the situation one of my friend's is in.

You don't live in Sussex do you? :p :confused:
 
Exactly the reason why i'm going down the project management side of things, it's FAR more interesting. I've been working on my summer placement with British Airways for a couple of weeks now, and so far i've flown down to london to meet clients twice, worked on various contracts, plans etc. and have been given the task of organising a charity run for the business park, with its associated media exposure, advertising etc. which is likely to attract around 300 people.

It's essentially IT, but you don't have to mess around with the crappy low level work, and instead spend your time meeting people and finding out what they want and the best way to deliver it.

Time will tell if it's definitely the career which I feel is right for me, but it's definitely looking good so far.
 
I find that working in I.T for the last 3 1/2 years has only increased my interest and eagerness to learn.

I heart I.T. :p
 
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