How to enter the IT world?
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@Dashrender said in How to enter the IT world?:
But he wasn't interviewing for a job.. I was stating a goal. He stated a two part goal, work in Linux and make 80K. He could have just as easily said he wanted to work in Linux and make $300K. Well to earn that much working in Linux would be severely limiting career choices. Granted the 80K is pretty middle of the road for a Linux admin, so he basically (to me) was saying that he didn't want to do anything overly hard, he just wants to be a Linux Admin.
Exactly. And he is in a market and hangs out with experienced $300K Linux Admins, so knows that $80K, where he is, is not exactly "entry level" but is a junior pay rate for sure.
And while he doesn't have IT experience, he's working on both an IT and a software engineering background plus has a ton of experience in another field that has some degree of relevance because of soft skills to the job. So brings a lot to the table than an equally technically ready Linux Admin at say 18 years old would not have.
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@scottalanmiller said in How to enter the IT world?:
@Dashrender said in How to enter the IT world?:
But he wasn't interviewing for a job.. I was stating a goal. He stated a two part goal, work in Linux and make 80K. He could have just as easily said he wanted to work in Linux and make $300K. Well to earn that much working in Linux would be severely limiting career choices. Granted the 80K is pretty middle of the road for a Linux admin, so he basically (to me) was saying that he didn't want to do anything overly hard, he just wants to be a Linux Admin.
Exactly. And he is in a market and hangs out with experienced $300K Linux Admins, so knows that $80K, where he is, is not exactly "entry level" but is a junior pay rate for sure.
And while he doesn't have IT experience, he's working on both an IT and a software engineering background plus has a ton of experience in another field that has some degree of relevance because of soft skills to the job. So brings a lot to the table than an equally technically ready Linux Admin at say 18 years old would not have.
All that stuff should have been specified. The OP reads like an entry level / teenager wrote it. Nothing there to indicate any experience in any field.
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What does the background matter? He basically opened with it. So maybe he shouldn't open with something like that, and that's my advice about entering the field. I haven't seen anything so far that tells me I'm definitely wrong. I hear that and think "I'd tell this guy to stick to business school." (Haven't seen anything else that tells me that I've guessed wrong there either).
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see @deathofasellout ... joining a community like this is great. you've successfully got them riled up with your first post. good luck
