Yay new job! No wait, old job again!

JollyGreen said:
Incidently I never did GCSEs or A levels ;)

MCSE = Microsoft Certified System Engineer
MCDBA = Microsoft Certified Database Administrator
MCSA = Microsoft Certified System Administrator
Comptia Sec+ = Security orientated network certification.

They're universal throughout the globe, just need the books and the exams, which you should be able to take locally!
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how much did all those exams cost you :p
 
Zip said:
Right your only 19
How do you get a job that pays like that with out going to uni?
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Its really not that hard. Professional qualifications and proven track records are much more important in IT.

Why do people have this obsession about needing degrees to earn well?
 
Well Done to the OP, good to see that having a degree is the 1 way to high paid jobs :)

Hard work, luck and ambition.

Enjoy your well earned money.

/Gigi
 
Ive worked for a few small software houses ( < 10 employees ) and when it comes to employment experience is much more important than qualifications.

Im not sure if this translates to large organisations who may have hundreds of applicants for a position. They probably split the applicants from the start into degree and no degree and start from there.
 
Garp said:
Its really not that hard. Professional qualifications and proven track records are much more important in IT.

Why do people have this obsession about needing degrees to earn well?
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Anyone who ever attends university will be brainwashed by the academics to think that it really matters in the work place. ;)
 
If i could choose between public schooling and rubbish job

OR

Home schooling and then £28k at 19yrs old

I know what i'd pick.

/Gigi
 
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jpmonkey69 said:
said the bishop to the person who habitually posts on an internet forum. ;)
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eh? :confused:

There's a slight difference here, i'm 25 been gradually posting on here since I was 22. Which suggests I have plenty of experience of social interaction from my prior years in state schooling.

Home schooling from age . suggests isolation from people your own age.

All i'm saying is surely such isolation makes it harder for one to interact with people of a similar age.

Edit: Anyway this is way OT now, well done to the OP for being so well paid at such a young age. :)
 
PaulStat said:
Home Education?

Surely that doesn't do your social skills any good?
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I'm not doing badly I think and didn't go to school from the age of 6 but did go to college to do my A Levels.
Still had plenty of friends throughout growing up that were the same age as me :) Used to play football, go swimming, play table tennis etc so I met people there.
 
MCSE = Must C Someone Experienced ...... :p

In honesty, 'real world' qualifications and experience are massively prefered by employers these days, degrees are ten a penny, and a lot of the time, (not all the time) Comp Sci grads arent as good at the job as people that have just got into the job and learnt it. I mean if you were offering a job to either someone fresh from Uni, or someone who could do the job straight away and had a proven track record.. you know which you'd choose.. right?

its a real shame that there arent more industry supported degrees (AFAIK IBM offer one with Portsmouth uni?) as it makes for a much better career path imo.
 
when you wanna work in IT, who needs social skills. :D

I started work after a Levels at 19 and am 20 and am on about 15k,

need to get some qualifications, currently working on my CCNA so I can manage and configure routers for business clients.
 
I swear I was lied to when I was younger, well a few years back, I mean ive always loved IT so thats what I was gonna do anyway, but everyone said, Ooh, get into IT, its the future, its where the money is.

That to me now does not seem like the case. I mean ive seen an IT Head/Director on 40k and a plumber on 50k. :confused:

Plus, theres no money in computer hardware - building. So where this money? consultancy?
 
spike's said:
only problem with doing that is if people in the office know you wanted to leave. but where offered more money they will think ** only in it for the money.
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Err... whereas you work because it gets boring around the house during the day?

JollyGreen said:
Well unless the company reads OCUK I should be fine ;)
*hastily blocks forums.overclockers.co.uk from being accessed internally*
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You see, that's what's cool about his job: the boss controls the purse strings, but the OP controls the flow of information!;):D
 
Kerplunk said:
but everyone said, Ooh, get into IT, its the future, its where the money is.

That to me now does not seem like the case. I mean ive seen an IT Head/Director on 40k and a plumber on 50k. :confused:
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That's because everyone went into IT because they thought that's where the money was and no-one went into plumbing.

Supply and demand regardless of perceived value.
 
Awesome money for age :D

I came across a 20 year old plumber at the weekend (brother bought car off him)

Plumber by week day + Car valeting at weekends.

In exess of 60k a year and an Audi S3 :(
 
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