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    Quote Originally Posted by ELECTRO View Post
    its like have sex,yu feel good, yet when yu done yu heart raise cause yu cant find money fi even buy soap fi bathe.
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    IT is one of the most stable jobs you can land in theory, but it still comes down to the company you working for.

    If i remember correctly a degree in pharmacology is a 5year course, in IT its about 3-4 years. You want to spend the time and money training in two completely separate fields?

    I can however see the reasoning behind going with IT and business degree for IT management/project management
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    Guess I need to 'wake up and smell the coffee' eh

    And yeah I was wonderin if he meant major in pharmacology and minor in computer science (however possible) cuz it's no plan of mine to be in university after 30...

    To a less exaggerated extent I understand what Skele saying...by time I'm to finish my degree a lot of things in relation to IT will be more automated and need less human input...or I shud say less 'capable' human input as any Joe and Jack probably will be able to do what I trained years for due to an extent of automation...

    Well a lot of FOR and AGAINST still going on

    Good thing I asked 'early'

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    Quote Originally Posted by kilaj1 View Post
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    IT is one of the most stable jobs you can land in theory, but it still comes down to the company you working for.

    If i remember correctly a degree in pharmacology is a 5year course, in IT its about 3-4 years. You want to spend the time and money training in two completely separate fields?

    I can however see the reasoning behind going with IT and business degree for IT management/project management
    As a long time techie, would you mind telling the yute about the dot.com buss in 2001..(A next buss might be around the corner)....Many people in IT suffer, some even committ suicide. Remind the yute how many programmers out there that loose their jobs..companies that went under...before that they were saying IT was a very stable job. Every corner now is a computer repair shop and almost every little boy a learn some progrmming language now. Everybody a cut cost now, and IT department a get slimmer and slimmer, some companies is even hiring on a per diem now, meaning dem only call yu when them have problem.

    Healthcare is boss all around.......people muss get sick, and nobody wanna die, so you muss want people fi look after them. Machine can get sick...so what...get a new one, but yu cant get a new life.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ELECTRO View Post
    You are getting my point wrong here....What I am saying is that technology is getting more stable everyday and alot of people is going into that field......It is coming to a point now that you have more dogs than bones. and some people is gonna be left out. Look at IT departments nowadays, 1 man is doing everything which usually require 10 people. Whats the cost of fixing a computer nowadays? Down to nothing. Computer techs here in the US usually makes $80 or more in the nineties....now its down to about $25 the highest.


    You are not in the age of trial and error.

    I guess you underestimate the power of technology bro.
    Better you say that the IT field has been saturated with the get rich quick mentality people...quality over quantity... The reason for dramatic price drops like that is usually nothing to do with the IT technology or the state of the industry. If person A charge you $50 and person B charge you $20 for the same service who would you go with?

    In JA Ive seen soo many people who want to call them selves computer techs just because they can open a computer case and identify a few parts don't believe me? ask Nestersan.

    Again to have 1 man in IT doing everything is not usually a result of the IT industry or technology, but the said companies reluctance to put out the extra money. Ive worked for companies that had over 600 users and there where only 2 IT guys...what happened? quality of service was poor because they stretch them thin...2 IT guys managing 2 separate buildings, eventually they had to expand there IT department
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    3ngor- Your problem was the same as what i was having last year; computer science or civil engineering.
    Is pharmacist something that is important to you and your family?
    Try doing Com Sci (Computer Science) in 6th form. I know ppl who were sure they wanted to do Com Sci at utech change their minds cause of they found it difficult in 6th form.
    Tell your parents that most industrial places need IT techs.

    I chose engineering cause: 1- I think the country is getting saturated with IT related ppl and 2- Engineering is what i love.

    Do what you love. It is your life. Good luck.

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    Boi it looks like any computer expertise I may develop I should just keep as a

    hobby.

    Or try hav a lil business on the side...

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    Is pharmacist something that is important to you and your family?
    Yes it can be important as my bro is currently training in the medical field so you can understand why ma parents runnin me down bout it...

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    Quote Originally Posted by DJ_WOW View Post
    I would like to be corrected if I am wrong on this. In IT, the farthest I can see one going is... a manager. IT people can never lead the organization as say a CEO. He is just a means of support or making certain processes easier. IT ppl generlly do not make money for the company, as such, I view them as disposible. They can easily be fired and replaced. These aspects of IT in Jamaica make me HATE IT. I personally feel the best way to make money in IT is to be a consultant. And in anything you do, the best advise I would say, is to ensure ppl have to DEPEND or NEED you.
    If all you know is IT then you probably will not rise to CEO (or be very successful if you do), but that doesn't mean you shouldn't start in IT. If you are serious about your career then it doesn't really matter where you start out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DJ_WOW View Post
    I would like to be corrected if I am wrong on this. In IT, the farthest I can see one going is... a manager. IT people can never lead the organization as say a CEO. He is just a means of support or making certain processes easier. IT ppl generlly do not make money for the company, as such, I view them as disposible. They can easily be fired and replaced. These aspects of IT in Jamaica make me HATE IT. I personally feel the best way to make money in IT is to be a consultant. And in anything you do, the best advise I would say, is to ensure ppl have to DEPEND or NEED you.
    I agree with you on the point of being needed and I believe the way to do it is to be a specialist in an area as well as being an all-rounder. In Jamaica, most companies ask for an all-rounder but some need a specialist. As usual "links" run Jamaica.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DJ_WOW View Post
    I would like to be corrected if I am wrong on this. In IT, the farthest I can see one going is... a manager. IT people can never lead the organization as say a CEO. He is just a means of support or making certain processes easier. IT ppl generlly do not make money for the company, as such, I view them as disposible. They can easily be fired and replaced. These aspects of IT in Jamaica make me HATE IT. I personally feel the best way to make money in IT is to be a consultant. And in anything you do, the best advise I would say, is to ensure ppl have to DEPEND or NEED you.
    Quote Originally Posted by sking View Post
    If all you know is IT then you probably will not rise to CEO (or be very successful if you do), but that doesn't mean you shouldn't start in IT. If you are serious about your career then it doesn't really matter where you start out.


    Depends on how you look at it, there are IT people who don't want to be in uppper management, my self included (bin there done that don't like it)

    Think you folks are getting your titles mixed up. I've seen people that have the IT knowledge and have gone on to be CIO (Chief Information Officer) a CEO is a completely different job roll, and usually has noting or little to do with IT
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    One way to look at things is that it is easier to pick up IT later on in life - through self study, classes etc. But it is more difficult to pick up pharmacology or other similar types of scientific disciplines later in life. You could eventually study both, but the opportunity for the health care part may only be presented to you now, while you can always pick up the IT after.

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