Advice for my cousin's son trying to start in IT

[snaw]

That's sarcasm isn't it?

Umm, actually no.

Tough choice, no cash but tonnes of young, fit, madferrit student fanny. Or loads of cash but spend your days looking at beardy weirdys with sandals and novelty ties ...

And the occasional mediocre looking female IT worker, who starts to look well hot after a couple of months cooped in the office with the beardy weirdy ...

[EternalOptimist]

Lancashire eh ?

Tell him he is at foot of lifes long ladder, get up it and clean those upstairs windows

[Zippy]

Umm, actually no.

Tough choice, no cash but tonnes of young, fit, madferrit student fanny. Or loads of cash but spend your days looking at beardy weirdys with sandals and novelty ties ...

And the occasional mediocre looking female IT worker, who starts to look well hot after a couple of months cooped in the office with the beardy weirdy ...

Point taken.

[moorfield]

And the occasional mediocre looking female IT worker, who starts to look well hot after a couple of months cooped in the office with the beardy weirdy ...

pints

[Zippy]

That really is quite disturbing, isn't it?

No the really disturbing bit is when you starting eyeing up the beards and sandals brigade.

[TimberWolf]

Just tell him what i told someone the other day who is about to start a Uni course in IT.......Don't

Don't do IT.

[pmeswani]

I'm visiting my cousin in a couple of weeks, as another of his tribe is turning up from Lancashire or wherever he lives in the wilds of Northern England.

Anyway, I suspect the main reason he invited me is to advise his son, who graduated with an IT degree last year and, I believe, hasn't yet really found his feet in commercial IT.

I'm a bit vague about the details, i.e. where he was studying and his grade, or what he has done since graduating. However, I do know he has a regrettable tendency to look down on commercial IT, which as I tried to explain to him won't help his financial prospects.

So any advice would be welcome.

Tell him to give up any dream of going into IT.

[realityhack]

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I disagree. IMO. He should choose an area he enjoys to specialise in, and target his job applications, enhancing those areas of his course to suit, on the CV. He should then apply for work experience if jobs aren't forthcoming.

[Mich the Tester]

I disagree. IMO. He should choose an area he enjoys to specialise in, and target his job applications, enhancing those areas of his course to suit, on the CV. He should then apply for work experience if jobs aren't forthcoming.

a McJob

[expat]

I graduated in Maths and then headed into commercial IT, or Data Processing as we called it then. My younger brother graduated in Computing, then went into theoretical work and telecommunications software, not commercial IT.

I have managed to make a decent living most of the time, though not right now, and have worked in at least half-a-dozen Fortune 100 companies. But my brother retired in his 40s as a director of a Fortune 100 communications company.

Are you sure you know what this young guy should do in his future?