After graduation, I might get into the same field I was in (IT), but this time I'll have the opportunity to jump in there in a more significant capacity. After high school, I didn't go straight into college; I instead started working and earning computer certifications(such as A+, Network+, Cisco, etc.), working my way up to what I wanted to do (which was to work in IT).
After a while, I got into a pretty nice position, except it didn't pay well. In addition, there wasn't that much opportunity for growth because many of the upper-level positions preferred -- you guessed it -- a bachelor's. When I first came to this school, I was set to major in something other than computer science (like biology) because I felt burned out from working in IT for the past few years, and I didn't particularly enjoy half my day being dedicated to fixing someone's phone or internet connection (sometimes connectivity problems can take even more time to solve for many reasons).
I realized though, that whatever field you work in, you will eventually feel a "burn-out" at one time or another -- and I realized that it wasn't the field that made me lose interest, but some of the management that also made things less than enjoyable at work. I was surprised at how much someone could make me feel like I hate an industry that I loved.
I wouldn't mind getting a programming position either; there were several people I met in various classes that changed their major because they hated programming, and its not what they thought it was. In my case, computer science was like an old girlfriend you broke up with, that after a while of not being with her, starts looking real good again, and you start realizing you made a mistake.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
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