10 alternative careers for recession-hit IT pros

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10 alternative careers for recession-hit IT pros

The IT function is in the front line when it comes to job losses, so can refuge be found elsewhere?

RBS and HSBC are the latest in a long line of companies making swingeing cuts to their IT department headcount over the past 12 months, with economic forecasts suggesting things are going to get worse before they get better.

Amid all the uncertainty, it might be time to mothball those in-house IT skills and use the time (and hopefully the cash) that redundancy offers to take a new direction.

We’ve listed 10 tongue-in-cheek backup plans below, but feel free to write in and suggest your own.

Read the 10 alternatives here.

While it may have been created in a tongue-in-cheek way, judging by trends (eg ICT Teacher, Nurse, Data Protection lawyer) it does have a serious flavour to it. Hence why it's here and not in a different section.

-Ken