Poll: Who on the forums DOESN'T work in IT

Do you work in IT?

  • Yes

    Votes: 364 34.1%

  • No

    Votes: 702 65.9%
  • Total voters
    1,066
Firestar_3x said:
I'd rather boil my own head than work in IT again, far too much stress for what i'd consider limited reward (25k), glad i got out of the game 2 years ago.
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What do you do now then? I completely agree!!!

I am the ONLY system administrator for my company so therefore responsible for the entire domain (30 servers, ok not a lot but still enough for me) plus support and all the extra **** that comes with it. On call for no extra money, on call every other Saturday for no money, working 4 hours on site every Saturday in about five for no extra money. Constant phone calls when I'm on holiday, the boss even made one of the IT trainers drive to my house to fetch me in once!! (December 22nd 2008, I had finished for Christmas)

We now have this call logger so I'm expected to do all the jobs on that plus server administration.

All that headache for £26k !
 
shoot1st said:
I have no idea what you mean by that but if you develop software then surely you can be classed as working in IT, or am I missing something here?
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The key is in the name. "Information" technology. If you deal with software or hardware which is primarily used for storing, manipulation or transport of "information" then you work in IT.

A software developer working on say a computer game... what "information" is there in a game?

Believe it or not companies like Microsoft, IBM etc have "IT Departments". They don't have their $$$ expensive software developers crawling around between server racks to plug in an Ethernet cable :p
 
Define IT first.

I don't help people with MS office problems, I am doing a PhD involving computers and programming. I program robots, and therefore class myself as a robotisist. When programming for a computer I develop AI algorithms and classify myself as a scientist.
 
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Software developer. So, yes, I work in IT. It's all computers at the end of the day. :p

NathanE said:
Believe it or not companies like Microsoft, IBM etc have "IT Departments". They don't have their $$$ expensive software developers crawling around between server racks to plug in an Ethernet cable
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I thought every IT department in the country got re-branded as "Information Services"? It seems so from the companies I've worked for recently.
 
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D.P. said:
Define IT first.

I don't help people with MS office problems, I am doing a PhD involving computers and programming. I program robots, and therefore class myself as a robotisist. When programming for a computer I develop AI algorithms and classify myself as a scientist.
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Miles Dyson, is that you :eek:
 
D.P. said:
Define IT first.

I don't help people with MS office problems, I am doing a PhD involving computers and programming. I program robots, and therefore class myself as a robotisist. When programming for a computer I develop AI algorithms and classify myself as a scientist.
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can you do the robot?
 
NathanE said:
The key is in the name. "Information" technology. If you deal with software or hardware which is primarily used for storing, manipulation or transport of "information" then you work in IT.

A software developer working on say a computer game... what "information" is there in a game?

Believe it or not companies like Microsoft, IBM etc have "IT Departments". They don't have their $$$ expensive software developers crawling around between server racks to plug in an Ethernet cable :p
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Yeah, I suppose it comes down to the exact definition of IT. But tbh I don't think this thread was meaning to be as specific as that, I think that the term used here should have been 'computing' rather than 'IT', as however you interpret the term 'IT' determines whether you think you work in IT or not.
 
The reason for the thread, well one of the reasons anyway, was to find out if there's something out there that I might enjoy.

Can't stand working in IT.

There's no money in it and everyday is just problem, problem problem, nag, nag, NAG!. Employers seem to want the earth these days and pay peanuts for it.

Last job ad I saw wanted MCSE as a minimum with CCNA but was only prepared to pay £18k (and that was with experience).

My dad earns more than that and he does **** all :p
 
2nd line Network Engineer here

bit more I.T compared to 1st line :p

70/30 split at the moment, exactly what I thought it would be about too
 
Been in It for the last 6 years, started off in development doing some dev work over in Germany and here in London. I was then approached by another firm who pursuaded me to leave, I now run there IT and Comms as well as several of their clients.

I still enjoy it but don't love it, but hey the moneys good and it pays the bills.
 
shoot1st said:
Is that not still Information Technology though? Even in a washing machine you're still dealing with some kind of data and using some kind of computer code to instruct a CPU of some kind to perform specific operations. Plus you have to using a computer of some kind to program it all.
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I think that definition of IT is far too broad. You'd have to include most professional engineers, who certainly wouldn't say that they worked in IT.
 
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