Posted on 01/05/2015 1:12:11 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Your niece should hang on to that job at the grocery store.
I don’t see how this is completely accurate. Our shortages are in networking (including security), visualization and storage design/management. I can hire project managers, web developers and database people all day long without issue and everyone I know has the same shortages. The problem is, they ask executives who generally know little about the tech they are delivering. They are professional managers. that’s also why more times than not, It staff levels are in disarray... not enough of what we need and too much bloat. You can hire software developers a dozen at a time and it will never be enough because they are in charge of building their own dependencies.
I have no doubt that she will excel at whatever she does, but it seems like a little waste of potential to me. But I want her to be happy.
Speaking as someone who had a similar number, an English degree, and who has an IT job not even remotely related to my formal education, money goes a long way to being “happy”, and while money isn’t everything, not having enough of it is definitely something...bad.
My father was a history teacher. The first of the very few useful things that he taught me was to not pursue becoming a teacher.
No, because all of the IT execs and project managers still believe the lying hype that Java is a real web language.
Most project managers, next to most CIOs are next to worthless when it comes to technology projects.
I would think IT Security would be in demand. Especially at Sony.
Engineers from a good school (e.g., EEs from U of Illinois) rarely have problems finding very good paying jobs. It’s not a hip or easy degree. You have to study and master courses like calculus. It’s not for everyone.
We're paying CCNA's $25-$35HR, CCNP's up to $80/hr and CCIE's $110/hr with after-hrs rates as high as $150/hr.
encourage your nephew some more and have him stick to the Cisco track.
It's money in the bank.
IF he's smart enough to do it.
Few are.
We renamed them: Delivery Managers.
And if they don't deliver, we fire them.
Few PMP's survive.
“Programming & Application Development”
(raises hand) Somebody pay me big money in Greensboro NC.
I own a construction company and I got tired of paying to have someone manage my network. I wanted to manage it myself. So I went to a local community college where I took Cisco Academy classes and passed the CCNA exam. That was in 2002 and I haven't renewed since so I know I am well behind. I am familiar with networking and how much one can make, that is why I steered him toward networking.
I have a friend I went to school with who stuck with it. He holds dual CCIEs, R&S and Service Provider. He's never told me what he makes but he was a student 12 years ago and he just recently purchased a $2 million dollar home, so I htink he does quite well.
bkmk
If your niece is serious about majoring in engineering/STEM, I would recommend that she check out the Society of Women Engineers. It’s a good networking resource, and most universities will have an SWE chapter on campus.
http://societyofwomenengineers.swe.org/
Lately it’s suffered from somewhat from O’Sullivan’s Law (like everything else), but on a whole it’s still a good resource. I recommend that your niece consider joining once she begins her major, if only for the career and networking opportunities if nothing else.
The concept of a PM is that they are a member of a project team who provides for the planning, scheduling, and tools needed to keep a project on a successful track. A member of a team headed by a SME.
Over the years, too many senior managers have latched onto the term “manager” and put the PM in charge of the project and people working the project. Often the PM has little real knowledge or experience in the technical aspects of the project, timelines tend to solidify without regard to real world situations and they allow project requirements to either expand to please the end users or emerging critical requirements are pushed aside to meet the project timeline.
They are usually the reason why projects fail and firing them is appropriate but that frequently does not happen as the blame is shifted downward.
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