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Every career I look at requires several more years of full-time school even though I already have a bachelor's degree. I don't have the time or money to do that.
I'm at a loss; I want out of I.T. badly but I don't want the stress of putting my life on hold and doing without my paycheck while I train.
What can I do? Are there people who specialize in guiding people like me into jobs we may not have considered and who can give us advice on how to land our first job in that field?
I feel your pain. I'd give anything to get science out of my life forever. Unfortunately, like a lot of people right now, I am stuck in a job and career I hate because of the economy and employer's unwillingness to hire entry level employees and develop them.
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What do you dislike about IT? Lack of jobs, poor salary, or just burned out. If you have a decent paying job I'd say hold off changing careers untill the economy improves.
I feel your pain. I'd give anything to get science out of my life forever. Unfortunately, like a lot of people right now, I am stuck in a job and career I hate because of the economy and employer's unwillingness to hire entry level employees and develop them.
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What do you dislike about IT? Lack of jobs, poor salary, or just burned out. If you have a decent paying job I'd say hold off changing careers untill the economy improves.
Burned out, plus there is a huge sweatshop mentality where I work and in a lot of other companies too. Also a lot of I.T. jobs are contracts now which I don't want.
Every career I look at requires several more years of full-time school even though I already have a bachelor's degree. I don't have the time or money to do that.
I'm at a loss; I want out of I.T. badly but I don't want the stress of putting my life on hold and doing without my paycheck while I train.
What can I do? Are there people who specialize in guiding people like me into jobs we may not have considered and who can give us advice on how to land our first job in that field?
Every career I look at requires several more years of full-time school even though I already have a bachelor's degree. I don't have the time or money to do that.
I'm at a loss; I want out of I.T. badly but I don't want the stress of putting my life on hold and doing without my paycheck while I train.
What can I do? Are there people who specialize in guiding people like me into jobs we may not have considered and who can give us advice on how to land our first job in that field?
You can do whatever you want. You sound like me a few years ago after 5 years in IT... I swore it off at 27 as never wanting to do it again... then I tried doing some other stuff but the economy sink happened, wound up back in an IT job as that was all I could get and ended up hating it more than before. I am now going back to school for something completely different at 29...
I had 3 IT jobs + a few contracts over that time and hated every single one of them... it is just not for me whatsoever, not my personality, I have no interest anymore either (I started programming when I was 13 so for me the IT/computer world felt like much longer in it than it was...)
The money isn't great anymore either, not much better than any other careers. It is a mature industry.
I would say in this economy and trained workforce, I would go back to school for a professional degree, masters in related field or a 2nd bachelors.
I'm glad I never switched to an IT career and got $50,000 debt being swayed to college during the dot com boom. So many IT jobs require so many skills and then they'd like to hire a cheap H1b Indian instead...
Yes; they work worse hours than I do. Plus you pretty much have to be Indian to get a job in that field these days. You sure have to be Indian to be a DBA at my office. They have a high turnover and every single one for 3 years has been Indian.
Yes; they work worse hours than I do. Plus you pretty much have to be Indian to get a job in that field these days. You sure have to be Indian to be a DBA at my office. They have a high turnover and every single one for 3 years has been Indian.
I would think the hours you work can depend on where you work.
Have you considered being a project manager? You'd have to start as an entry level, but you probably have experience for an IT related project manager position. If you use a general job search function you will see a large number of project manager positions are out there.
I would think the hours you work can depend on where you work.
Have you considered being a project manager? You'd have to start as an entry level, but you probably have experience for an IT related project manager position. If you use a general job search function you will see a large number of project manager positions are out there.
I have thought about that but the project managers where I work also work insane hours...worse than my hours. I don't want to work insane hours anymore; I would really rather limit my evening/weekend work to little to none.
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