Originally Posted by
Aikon
...Do you agree with me however that if one is in IT nowadays he can grow and learn as long as he/she feels the love towards technology especially if you are a tech-addict? There is no age limit (as long as you are healthy). I do believe in a life long learning experience.
thanks for any feedback
I believe people you know in IT are much better than the resume effort. I have heard of stacks of resume's two meters tall in HR that never get read. I have a commercial mailing house and with ten thousand dollars ( which I do not have ) to waste on senseless bloating of my mailbox ( which I do not plan to do ) I could send resume's at the rate of a thousand a day. I do not even have a resume, other than a work history for the last decade, and do not plan on sitting still in front of anyone who asks for a resume. What the approach seems to be that is effective is do the books and study and resume or whatever else you can find until you get at least one job in IT - which obviously you already have. Then and from that point if at all possible gain work by information and contacts found with that work. I had one strong job lead I accomplished by participating in these discussion groups. I could not give the lead further contemplation as the shop practiced 40 hours, then turn off the pager and go tend your personal business.
Most of my projects would swamp reasonable budget projections and if I did that sort of attitude, I would only be a projectile - leaving the project in a graceful exit. One developes what may be called "Attitoad's Attitude" and if the buzzer goes off at the plant two miles away at 2:59 AM, you probaly know about it several minutes before it does because one is so finely attuned to the project that you eat it and sleep it and live it. Tech-addict may survive at a lower strata, but beware the resume game: Too many interview works are the work of someone who has never and will never grasp what a shift-op is or really grasp anything beyond what is properly the purvey of HR - Human Interaction ...
The native state of a true Techie is mistakenly labeled as anti-social. It is not any such thing, just a focus on technical issues or some wording to that end. They will also, mistakenly, say that tech people have an eye for detail. Their idea of detail does not match my idea of detail. Sorta like glycerine suppository, one would not wish nitro-glycerine in their suppositional exposition which is sort like resume's to me.