At 3/25/15 02:17 PM, Monster-64 wrote:
At 3/25/15 02:14 PM, injexen wrote:
At 3/25/15 02:12 PM, Monster-64 wrote:
Oh, I just got what you said when you said "dat IT fieldz". I didn't really know wtf you ment lol.
IT = Information Technology. Computers and shit. Also, we break more than we fix.
Yup, I figured. How does that go? I've been considering taking IT for many years now, but I might end up doing criminology, sociology and psychology because I also wanna be a career police officer.
Do you learn about the sciences of hardware and programming? What have you learned so far?
If you take a general Information Sciences degree you'll learn everything from hardware to programming, from servers to switches and routers, and even some database.
My advice to you is to really get a feel for these things before you make your decision. A lot of people take IT because oh hey! I love to fuck around with computers so I'd be good with this! That's where they go wrong because it's a lot different. They also think that you spend all day troubleshooting all these different, interesting problems and situations. The reality is you troubleshoot the majority of your problems once... then you spend the rest of your time applying the fix over and over and over and over... point is if repetition irritates you this is not the field to choose.
Also note that no matter where in IT you major, you'll end up starting behind a service desk, dealing with idiots that have no idea how to even power on the machine and call about it every goddamn day... Even as a programmer, you'll start out doing maintenance programming of some sort.
You'll never get hired into an infrastructural roll until you have experience. The only way to do that is to get in with a company's internal IT at the desktop support level and work your way up. You'll never get hired directly into the good stuff with experiencing it first, which means starting rock bottom. I'm sure it is that way with most fields though.
Just some things to think about, and you can also PM me with any additional questions as I don't want to distract from OP's original discussion.