I want to work on, with, for, and make love to computers

**Harner** · 07-06-2011, 07:06 PM

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No, actually you'll be more marketable if you are a jack of all trades. Programming/scripting, project management, networking, engineering, etc. Unless you want to pigeon-hole yourself into a niche trade and be a contractor forever (not that it's a bad thing, they make big bucks), think broader. Get an expensive piece of paper with your name on it, and get about 5 years experience in the IT world. Then people will take you seriously.

edit - expensive piece of paper = bachelor's. don't waste your time with a 2 year degree. And let a corporation pay for a master's.

**sponge** · 07-07-2011, 11:08 AM

Originally Posted by Harner

computertraining.com

No, actually you'll be more marketable if you are a jack of all trades. Programming/scripting, project management, networking, engineering, etc. Unless you want to pigeon-hole yourself into a niche trade and be a contractor forever (not that it's a bad thing, they make big bucks), think broader. Get an expensive piece of paper with your name on it, and get about 5 years experience in the IT world. Then people will take you seriously.

edit - expensive piece of paper = bachelor's. don't waste your time with a 2 year degree. And let a corporation pay for a master's.

I mean yeah I guess this is good advice if you want to spend your life as a java or web monkey but I'd rather not sit at the bottom of the software totem pole doing computer janitor work on the side

**Harner** · 07-07-2011, 11:32 AM

Originally Posted by sponge

I mean yeah I guess this is good advice if you want to spend your life as a java or web monkey but I'd rather not sit at the bottom of the software totem pole doing computer janitor work on the side

I didn't say do level 1 PC Tech shit. You'll go further, faster getting a handle of everything and not being some "web monkey" coding HTML at Starbucks with your corduroy jacket and greasy jew hair.

**Mad Pino Rage** · 07-08-2011, 11:38 PM

Originally Posted by Harner

computertraining.com

No, actually you'll be more marketable if you are a jack of all trades. Programming/scripting, project management, networking, engineering, etc. Unless you want to pigeon-hole yourself into a niche trade and be a contractor forever (not that it's a bad thing, they make big bucks), think broader. Get an expensive piece of paper with your name on it, and get about 5 years experience in the IT world. Then people will take you seriously.

edit - expensive piece of paper = bachelor's. don't waste your time with a 2 year degree. And let a corporation pay for a master's.

Yes, I want to be paragon of knowledge of all those fields and demonstrate how exceptional I am in the application of that knowledge. The military is paying for 36 months of my college including books and housing.

Originally Posted by sponge

I mean yeah I guess this is good advice if you want to spend your life as a java or web monkey but I'd rather not sit at the bottom of the software totem pole doing computer janitor work on the side

I don't know if you are making cynical jokes or being very serious.