jecu

just the way you were talking about tech school being hard and then saying you would do the computer science instead. I was assuming you thought it would be easier.

FooK

I've got a degree in IT ----.

Welcome to the most overly saturated employment market in the world. Where every job you apply for will be applied for by 3 million other people who have been doing it longer than you, know more than you, have a more impressive resume than you. Point is its a very competetive market. Make sure you get every last certification test under your belt that you can, those often mean more to any company than your degree will, and will help you out a ton.

Bust out A+, Net+, MCP (or even MCSE), CCNA, and all those various certs as fast as you can. Get into a few and you could be making a decent $30-40K wage before you're even done getting your degree.

SpankedYA!

**** is correct.I went back to school for IT and after talking with numerous professors and teachers found that the job market is too competitive and that it is very saturated. Since I already make around the $50k now I figured I should stick to service work. Plus the fact I can't see going back to a job where I work in the same place day after day. I like being on the road.

Jmunk

Good for you, I'm graduating this spring and i'm scared/excited. I wish i could do it all over again. The best of luck to you.

70Challenger

"Back to school! Back to school, to prove to Dad that I'm not a fool! I got my lunch packed up, my boots tied tight, I hope I don't get in a fight! Ohhhh, back to school! Back to school! Back to school! Well, here goes nothing!"

jecu

yeah my neighbor back home in the IT field just got laid off and he was in the job for 15 years and pretty high up in command. So did my other neighbors in IT, they were both (husband and wife) laid off within a month of eachother

dai the flu

do you have any more gum?

good luck with that school thing.

Guy-Fast

Are you goin full time? Rule of thumb is if your havent been in school in awhile take a much smaller load has your goin to struggle until you get back into the swing of things. I go back in the fall of 2006 at Chico State has I have a little over a year left till i finish my finance degree after droppin out of UNLV last year.

boosted_b16

wow that scares the hell out of me, should i consider a degree in finance or something instead? i would hate to invest all that time to get a bachelors degree and not get a decent job out of it, but at the same time you claim i could get a 30-40k a year job before i even graduate? the certs are really that important? gives me some prospective on the whole thing though, you got any more insight into this career path? if you could go back to school all over again, would you have gotten a different degree? and do you consider there to be a vast difference in the job market for people with straight up information technology degrees, versus people with a degree specifically in network administration and security? or is there a big difference at all?

xpert787

How do you feel about the medical field, there are alot of good paying jobs that are 4year or 2year degrees. RN, x-ray tech, respirtory therapist...etc.