Making
the decision to pursue a career in computers is a great
choice. I can vouch for that personally -it's the most
important career decision I have ever made. Having said
that, I know from experience that it can be hard to decide
which computer job to pursue! Many of you are attending
or thinking of attending a tech school such as ITT Tech
or ECPI, and once you get started you may be overwhelmed
at the number of fields you can enter from there. Should
you specialize in Microsoft networking software, or email
programs, or Novell,
or Cisco, or Linux, or... ? The list goes on and on. I
faced a similar decision when I attended a computer school.
I took some programming classes, and while they helped
me understand computer logic, it just wasn't what I wanted
to do for a living.
Then I took a networking class and I just knew that's
what I wanted to do.Here's the key - don't select a field
just because it's considered "hot". There was a particular
technology that was hot when I attended school, and you
could make a million dollars a week, etc.
I took a class in that technology and it just didn't grab
me, so I moved to a networking class and the rest is history.
I'm not saying every day on any job is going to be fun,
but I will say that if you gotta work, you might as well
enjoy it.
