Jobs poll

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Where stage are you at in the IT industry?

 

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Last year I left the RAF after 7 years as a shiney adminer, and after a little job hopping I managed to land a desktop support job which I am absolutly loving at the moment.

their isnt much room to move up the ladder here but I can see myself staying with the company for a few years while increasing my experience range

 

I am suprised by the low numbers of respondants that are looking to enter IT in this poll. I have seen a lot of posts from new members (such as myself) asking for advice on entering the IT profession. I would like to ask the longer term members whether they have noticed an increase in the numbers of people joining for this reason or has there always been a high turnover of new members? (or you may not agree that there are a lot of new entrants)

Cheers.

 

Many people who are looking to get into IT will post looking for information, get the information they need, and go back into lurk mode. Those of us who are regulars are often people who have the information... thus, with a few notable (and worthwhile!) exceptions, most of the regulars are already in IT. I love it when newbies decide to stay and become contributing forum members!

 

That makes sense.

I find one of the positive aspects of this forum is that the regular contributors always respond quickly and positively to posts from new members, even though these posts are often about the same issues and questions.

 

Hi Hades, Just left the raf too mate, last day is the end of next month!

Got a job working as desktop starting next week though would like to move up the gravy train in at least a year from first line...

Did you get a job working in the public sector? and whats your desktop role like, for example are you busy, what platforms are you working on, room for progression etc..

Cheers Dub

 

I basically started working in IT the week I finished school. Thank god that I was able to get a job that quickly because I know how hard it is to find a job when you have no experience.

 

I went from Uni after failing the first year of a computing degree, which I found to be a business degree, with the occasional bit of computing (quite dull for me), into a computing job