IT not worth it anymore?

[snaw]

Looks fecking great from where I'm sitting. Very good money, very easily transportable skills (i.e. if you want to live and work in other countries), and actually interesting if you're doing it for the right reasons. Then again I been in it for a long time now and I have skills that are in demand, so I have an element of not worrying about my next contract and usually getting to choose what my next gig is.

Finance might pay more, but crucially, people in finance work a hell of a lot harder than we do. Plus from what I can tell the shortage in IT is as great as always, as long as your relitively flexible in what you do and prepared to put in a wee bit of work to upskill you'll be fine.

[Bagpuss]

Hi, can i ask what is a logistician? And how can you earn so much for so few hours?

Sounds like a made up name for operational research

[IanIan]

So is £250 a day allot of money to earn keeping in mind the time between contracts? (Which does actually make for a nice holiday)

[snaw]

So is £250 a day allot of money to earn keeping in mind the time between contracts? (Which does actually make for a nice holiday)

Nope, anything but. Personally say that wasn't even on the scale.

[IanIan]

What's allot of money then? And has IT ever payed allot of money?

[rge]

What's allot of money then? And has IT ever payed allot of money?

I am interested to know this too.

[DimPrawn]

What's allot of money then? And has IT ever payed allot of money?

a lot
paid

HTH



PS ewe seam two brite too bee in IT

[lilelvis2000]

I would get your degree as an absolute minimum and then worry about the next stage in a few years time. Can you not do IT mixed with something else ?

IT contractors have been talking the demise of IT for 20 years but the number of jobs keep on growing ( with the odd slump ) and if you have got half a clue you should earn a reasonable living at it.

I know a lot of tradesmen and most of them work hard for less than 200 a day and are nearly all looking for an exit strategy by age 40. Most would jump at the chance of a cushy IT desk job. A few CORGI plumbers working for themselves may earn more than that but plenty don't and they will be grafting hard for it.

Degree??? what good is a degree gonna be when all you read about in these IT rags is how business wants candidates to be business focused? Uni's don't teach that way...and business sure isn't interested in training you..I've had a total of 3 weeks of training in 15 years of IT.

I remind everyone that IT grad's were the least able to find work this year.
http://money.guardian.co.uk/work/sto...844427,00.html

How ironic...plumbers wanting to move into IT and IT pros. wanting to move into plumbing.

I personally am telling anyone who asks if its a good time to move into IT, to take accounting or business administration instead.

[snaw]

A lot? Well I worked with one guy who's on 750 a day, direct, and has been for a number of years. I'd say that's a lot. Anything less than that is decent but not wow.

I know a project manager who was on over a grand a day in the lead up to the millenium. I'm sure some here know guys who'll top that. Then if you peel the layers of the onion with some outsourced services - client gets billed by company to provide on site service, who pay another company, who pay another company. One gig I was at recently had some onsite 'Cisco' guys for a project, except they themselves weren't really Cisco and they'd worked out there were 5 layers between them getting paid and the client paying. And they were taking home at least 600 a day.

[IanIan]

Are these big contracts outside of the financial sector?

The agents tell me that the going rate for Flash dev is £250 - £300 / day. Yet they keep offering me as low as £175.