@John Doe, as much as your advice is meaningful, I don't think one would need to speak good English and express themselves perfectly to touch your servers. Most of us I.T. people have problems expressing ourselves to Lawyer/Banker standards. That doesn't mean we're not good at what we do. I worked in a cyber cafe when I was 13, I didn't know what a router and a LAN was, but I knew that all IPs should point to the server and that signing out "makes people not able to see your info"... And Gideon is trained on the mumbo-jumbo explaining all the tech so I think that attitude is what keeps the people with 6 years experience in the field and locks out all the young bloods. Gideon, I would suggest that you seek training first and foremost. Let the money come later. Get all your skill sets on some real stuff, real comps, real users, mess up a few times. But as soon as you've got your act together, and you should if you were meant for IT, then you can go out and make demands for your services as you were advised. KK. On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Philip Musyoki <pmusyoki@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Gideon,
You know lately the IT business has become a commodity business, and for you to have any meaningful impact, you need to hone you people skills which are now becoming more important than technical skills.
You need to show an employer why the should have you in the their IT department rather than some soulless technician working in some outsourcing company somewhere maybe even in India or Kazakhstan or even Timbuktu. The reason why companies and employers have IT departments is for these kind of skill, not the technical ones, but I am not saying technical skills are invalid but they are just part of the package. And they are willing to pay a premium for them. Otherwise they could just Google or Bing.
Cheers.
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