Mannemarak wrote
Well, the IT hell might be the one where every 3rd person you see is an IT techie and thus making you less special than you would like and less needed than you thought. I hear from a local supplier that in our region is 90 or so 'active' resellers making it VERY competitive and some companies even have accounts for their own IT purchase needs which takes the work away from us that depend on sales and giving support.
I'm in IT and in the general vein of it also, making me VERY replaceable, and being in the town I am makes it even harder. I work for myself but the small town syndrome is very evident with clients needing IT equipment and support.
So in a way it is hell, the general part of IT balloon...
...If I knew what I know now...I should've taken the full bursary from Anglo for mine engineering.
That is what's called the free market economy, supply and demand and all that. You think that doesn't exist in the world of estate agents, mobile phone retailers or scuba diving instructors? I can think of any number of professions where the business is more cut throat than IT.
But also, IT is such a broad and all encompassing term. You have guys who work for a PC retailer whose job it is to assemble PCs. They will say that they are in IT. Sure, job security for them would be very volatile because they are very easily replaced. You can't possibly compare them to very specialised fields like embedded programmers or systems architects. The same applies in any industry; The more specialised you are, the harder it is to replace you.
But it's not unique to the IT industry. There may be more IT professionals (and amateurs) now than there have ever been in the past, but then the IT industry is so much bigger now than it has ever been in the past.
