I.t.?

[MarcoPollo]

I was pondering what I will do in my future and I was considering IT. If anyone that works in IT wants to tell me about it (Salary, hours, What it's like) I would be eternally gratefull.

 

[Shodan]

If you are doing hardware, (not the most common I.T. job) you are always on your toes, I was an assistant technician, and I never sat down, but the work was always interesting.
Networking is similar, but you really need to know a lot about it, networks always fail, they don't work, or users destroy them etc, network technicians nearly always die of stress.

Programming is what I want to do, but you never get any exercise so, fun all round.

I would say network guys get paid the most.

 

[MarcoPollo]

Thnx for the info. I know there are more IT guys/girls? out there though.

 

[Latin_Jones]

I've been in IT for about 5-6 years now. It was great getting my foot in the door and learning so much. That's the best part of the job is the on the job training. I would take 5 years of experience over an MCSE, A+, and Network+ certification anyday (nothing personal against those programs though)

I'm not going to say how much I make but I'm 26, married with a kid and another on the way and I'm living in a new house and we're pretty comfortable. My wife works too, that helps.

I do alot of phone support and hardware support. The best of both worlds. I like doing customer service. You have to if you are on the phone. People with either love you or hate you. They'll love you when their hard drive crashes and you are able to recover their data :naughty:

 

[xLostx]

I'm in college right now becoming a network administrator, you can make quite a bit of money in networking if you play your cards right and land yourself a good position somewhere, my uncle is a programmer for the government and makes pretty decent money.
It just depends on what you're more into I guess, I have no interest in coding at all and I like networking so it made sense. And yes, troubleshooting a network/servers is verrrrryyy tedious and will drive you insane
I'm getting my A+ next year and starting Netware, we just finished a module with Windows Server 2003 I suppose I could go for that cert but meh.
Just beware I work for an ISP just taking calls and there's older people here who took my same course and this is where they work...don't end up like them, I sure don't.

 

[JFry]

I'm pretty much in the same spot as you Marco. I'm studying to get my mcdst certification and hoping to get an entry level job once I pass it. Don't quote me but from my limited research you can make anywhere from $10-20+/hr depending on skills and experience of course.

 

[MarcoPollo]

Yeh Ive been researching too, ive seen a wider range through 10-25/30 depending on exp.

 

[ship]

Oooh, good thread! I've applied to change programs into Computer Science - long story, had to get in the long route.... - and I'm very excited to get started.

 

[Anthraxxx]

Go to an IT school. Community college blows.

 

[ship]

I have what feels like a really dumb question to ask...
If I were to three years of Computer Science at my school (program description here), what kind of job opportunity do you think I would have (if at all) working at Ubisoft's studios here in Montreal?
Currently they're looking for...

And if that scholastic program isn't offering the right thing for someone interested in working for a video game producer, would any of you have suggestions as to what I should look into studying?

Thanks for any replies.

 

[Pressure]

I'm a Computer Science major at UCF (one of the top ranking CS schools in the US). I have a pretty good idea about what jobs you can get. Ship, everyone one wants to program video games so that's one of the toughest fields to get into. You usually need a B.S. in CS and 2-5 years experience working on a video game. If you want to get into FPS game coding then I suggest making a MOD for some game, probably HL2. Other games you can just make yourself if you can get a group of people together. If you have a good GPA you can get an internship at some company. That gets you some experience in the field. Most likely the first few years of your career as a computer scientist will be programming for something other than video games. Oh yeah, discrete structures is a bitch.

 

[ship]

Thanks for the nice reply Pressure )), but I should have been more clear I think.
I'm not necessaraly iterested in working on the game itself. I know how competitive and difficult a title that can be and, quite frankly, I know there will be lots of more qualified/talented people making the actual game itself.

But what about in areas like public-relations or system administator, etc...? Does anyone know what a video game developper might be looking for in the non-development fields?
Although I definitely could see myself as a programmer, too. *shrugs*