TheWesDude
Sonny, I Watched the Vault Bein' Built!
you are not "fucked before you started"
you just need to realize what you are getting in a 4 year degree especially if you dabble in different focuses.
if you are generally skilled you cannot do specifically skilled jobs.
thats what im trying to tell you.
you hear all these horror stories about people who spend 4-5 years in college getting their 4 year degrees with majors and even minors and then when they try to find a job all they can get is a job at 7-eleven or mcdonalds.
schools are based around giving you general knowledge unless you go for specific goals. if you do not go into school knowing what your end goal is, school will not prepare you for a job.
also be prepared to realize that what the college has laid out for their "4 year plan" may not have what you need to get a job.
if you do not go into it with a plan of your own, and be prepared to ignore the schools plan, then you could end up with being in a position of taking an entry level or intern position while you learn the actual job and then try to get a job in the area you want.
the problem is most schools only recognize 3 aims in IT/CS. networking, programming, system admin. what they do not tell you is that each of them has different specialties inside them.
for the company i work for there are people who ALL they do is work with exchange server. same with VM ware. same with firewalls/IDS/IPS. same with citrix. all they do all day long is work with those. in college if you are lucky all you would get is a general overview of how they work without ever actually seeing one and working on one. yet there are people out there who do these limited stuff ALL DAY LONG.
because there is enough need to pay people to be experts on these pieces of software and keep them around.
there is nothing wrong with going to college for a general 4 year IT/CS degree, just realize that when you get hired for a job, you are hired to do a specific job, not to do tons of jobs with just passing knowledge.
you just need to realize what you are getting in a 4 year degree especially if you dabble in different focuses.
if you are generally skilled you cannot do specifically skilled jobs.
thats what im trying to tell you.
you hear all these horror stories about people who spend 4-5 years in college getting their 4 year degrees with majors and even minors and then when they try to find a job all they can get is a job at 7-eleven or mcdonalds.
schools are based around giving you general knowledge unless you go for specific goals. if you do not go into school knowing what your end goal is, school will not prepare you for a job.
also be prepared to realize that what the college has laid out for their "4 year plan" may not have what you need to get a job.
if you do not go into it with a plan of your own, and be prepared to ignore the schools plan, then you could end up with being in a position of taking an entry level or intern position while you learn the actual job and then try to get a job in the area you want.
the problem is most schools only recognize 3 aims in IT/CS. networking, programming, system admin. what they do not tell you is that each of them has different specialties inside them.
for the company i work for there are people who ALL they do is work with exchange server. same with VM ware. same with firewalls/IDS/IPS. same with citrix. all they do all day long is work with those. in college if you are lucky all you would get is a general overview of how they work without ever actually seeing one and working on one. yet there are people out there who do these limited stuff ALL DAY LONG.
because there is enough need to pay people to be experts on these pieces of software and keep them around.
there is nothing wrong with going to college for a general 4 year IT/CS degree, just realize that when you get hired for a job, you are hired to do a specific job, not to do tons of jobs with just passing knowledge.
