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    What is an internship consist of?
    Who are you to want to escape a thugs bullet? That is only a personal prejudice, ( Atlas Shrugged)
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    Quote Originally Posted by thedave1164 View Post
    No problem.

    I warn people to not get into IT right now, as it is saturated, and few really good jobs out there.

    In 2002 I got laid off, along with about 10000 other it folks in Colorado, I was competing for helpdesk jobs with PhD's, no joke, lot's of MS types too.

    Find a niche, and be willing to relocate for the best positions.

    Worst part for me, is I like rural America, and IT jobs don't grow on farms.....
    What is MS types? Microsoft or Multiple Scleroses?
    Who are you to want to escape a thugs bullet? That is only a personal prejudice, ( Atlas Shrugged)
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    Quote Originally Posted by foxtrot View Post
    If you can get into linux and dirty hands coding/top end web development (which is very hard to do) as a jack of all trades, you will never run out of work. Even if you try to scare it with 80-90 hour weeks. Ask me how I know

    I also heard that those guys spend their late nights guarding their favorite forums from auto insurance spammers...

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    80 or 90 hours a week? Jesus, do you skip sleeping just to go shooting?
    Who are you to want to escape a thugs bullet? That is only a personal prejudice, ( Atlas Shrugged)
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    I have not seen a 40 hour work week since I was a teenager. In the last 10 years I can count then time when I was not available via email or cell just in case. As for hours, on the systems side you can expect to be in the office when your staff is and then to do all your heavy lifting outside of normal business hours. That means you will work nights and weekends because the business does not shut down so you can adjust routers, upgrade mail servers or roll out new platforms. If this is not the glamour you expected, best be careful what direction you go.

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    I seemed to be better at computers than I would like to admit and I'm tired of it. I am going to take a crack at it. I'm not in it for the fame, in fact I don't want to be known as the New Bill Gates ever.
    Who are you to want to escape a thugs bullet? That is only a personal prejudice, ( Atlas Shrugged)
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