Why Are People Keen To Get Out Of IT?

[SueEllen]

How about becoming a GP?

Pay is over 100K, and all you have do to is dish out valium/antibiotics/corn plasters. You dont even have to draw blood, that's what nurses are for

I could swear that today's doctors are googling your symptoms when they are tapping away at their computers.

There is loads of competition to become a GP now.

Virtually every medical student wants to become one due to the hours being office hours and the money.

My own GP is on £200K a year and someone else I know who is a GP is on the same. The hospital doctors I know feel hard done by in comparison.

This is an amazing change from before Nu Labour came to power when no-one wanted to be a GP so they still had to get foreign doctors in to fill the posts.

[Doggy Styles]

How about becoming a GP?

Pay is over 100K, and all you have do to is dish out valium/antibiotics/corn plasters. You dont even have to draw blood, that's what nurses are for

You still have to stick your finger up old men's arses.

[Pogle]

You still have to stick your finger up old men's arses.

Do you get to ask them if they like movies about gladiators too?

[ratewhore]

the work is dull

the people are dull

the money is great

so once i pay off my mortgage i'll find a proper job. one that i can do when there is no power...

[OwlHoot]

so once i pay off my mortgage i'll find a proper job. one that i can do when there is no power...

Carriage lamp fitter?

[Stan.goodvibes]

You may get retired much earlier than you think if you don't stop your annoying habit of adding PZZ for all your posts

LMAO but if he didn't do that how would we know who posted the message?

[Stan.goodvibes]

I dunno- I had a similar situation the other week, we wanted a bit of SQL to do a quick data cleanse, extract and move to a new DB. I did this while on a teleconf, outsourcing 'partner' pointed to their standard T&C's and would charge us a minimum of 5 days regardless of how long the task actually took.

PZZ

Sorry, who posted this?

[Stan.goodvibes]

To a business, IT is like the plumbing or the electrics, in that, rather than water or electricity, you are piping information.

I've used computers in my work for 30 years. I've even programmed them to help do my job. But I don't consider myself to be "in IT", I just use it.

So.... not much use to this thread at all really then?

[Stan.goodvibes]

All this talk of the death of I.T. is a bit like the proverbial ejaculation before she's had enough*. I.T. is still thriving and will continue to thrive, you're just having a bit of a downturn and like all downturns everyone gets pessimistic and says it's the end of I.T.

Here in Oz where there was no recession there is a ton of contract work. And as always it's work than cannot be done by someone in India because it requires interpersonal skills because you need to be able to communicate with the business.

I really like IT contracting and don't think that it's changed much in 15 years, rather I have evolved to be more about business processes and less about development - something that articles on this site have been talking about for ages - it's about communication skills these days.

I do have a long-term plan that revolves around further property development that will one day (I hope) take me away from IT, but in the meantime I love it.

*premature.

[bobhope]

I used to love IT (what happened to ICT?) but any interest I had has been killed off by coporate IT. Now it's just the money.