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| Thread ID: 103037 | 2009-09-10 06:19:00 | How did you start your I.T career | forums12345 (15197) | PC World Chat |
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| 808576 | 2009-09-10 09:41:00 | Walk into your local tech shop and ask the manager if they would be prepared to let you sit in alongside one of their techs for FREE. As in no payment to you you are just there | gary67 (56) | ||
| 808577 | 2009-09-10 10:06:00 | What qualifications did you have before you gained your first I.T job. Also how was the whole experience. Any tips and advice? No qualifications and no experience, but have both now, learned fast. |
Twelvevolts (5457) | ||
| 808578 | 2009-09-10 12:24:00 | Networking is very important (not computer networking, but people-networking). Go to industry events, for examples those run by the NZ Computer Society, Microsoft, and other similar functions; shake some hands, meet some people, and you never know - somebody might know of somebody who has a position available. I got a lead on a very interesting job opportunity last year from someone at an industry event because I was in the right place at the right time, talking to the right person - I didn't end up taking it up, but still. | somebody (208) | ||
| 808579 | 2009-09-10 21:07:00 | chasing over due payments - Rule 1: NO credit. I dabbled in PCs long before I went to Polytech. I fixed PCs before I went. When I went it was to get the qual. I knew more DOS than my tutor........ Then I did some temp work for various places then applied for full time work and got my MS qual while I was there - and NO, they didn't pay for it. I did. Decide what area of IT you want to be in first. I had a friend who became a programmer. She aced her Polytec course and at her final presentation she was head-hunted by Datacom. She had no experience but she was very, very good. SO it does depend what you plan on doing as to how you go about it. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 808580 | 2009-09-10 22:20:00 | I've decided to become an IT after I get my next career choice done and away with: astrophysicist/brain surgeon. | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 808581 | 2009-09-10 23:13:00 | I started in London as an end user back in 91, was the 1st networked pc win 3.11 & novell 3.x...i was doing credit control\property admin, but they liked how i was intuitive with lotus 123, so i was the test guy for cc mail and shares etc..after a couple of years, a new IT guy introduced me to Doom II, which he put on our network(tut tut), and i was sold...i never knew computers were so much fun...so i went out and got me some novell qualifications, cost me around $5k!, but i took another 1 before the it dept (20 people) took me on, but as business systems analysis (end user knowledge of bespoke system), not desktop\network support. They moved me soon afterwards though and i never looked back... | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 808582 | 2009-09-11 00:01:00 | Did an aptitude test at work in '85 and got shunted off to Sydney for 13 months for the first course. The valve equipment was the easiest to service since it had a fair few plug-in components (valves, relays, programming boards etc.) Mini computers were those able to be delivered on a single truck. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 808583 | 2009-09-11 01:36:00 | I started playing with computers way back when we got our ZX Spectrum in 1983. I was 8 at the time. Did a bit of programming on it but never really like programming and still don't :D We had that for a few years before we got our first PC, a Commodore 8086. From then on I just used to play around with DOS and then Windows 3.1 and 3.11 and started upgrading the PC myself. Removing bits and seeing how they worked, putting it back together again etc. We got a 386 at some stage then a 486. That was the last factory built machine we got as I built them from then on. We went through all the O/S's, Win95, Win98, Win98SE, WinME, Win2000 and WinXP. Everything I have learnt has been self taught. I did do a one year computer course at the Poly but knew pretty much everything already. My first 'IT' job was selling computers at the local Retravision store and I was also the support person for the store and any customers. Then I got offered a proper tech job at a local computer store and stayed there for about 11 years before I left and started my own company doing the same thing. Been doing this now for almost 3 years and the company is growing slowly. My wife is not doing as much in the business as we now have a part time office admin person and also one full time sales/tech person. Always looking at growing so I can spend less time working too :thumbs: |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 808584 | 2009-09-11 03:29:00 | Dont have any, self-taught. I read most of what I know, then did it. Cant be bothered learning about something, if I have to start all over again. But I build PC's and get rid of malware Exactly like me, 11YO I started playing little online games and soon got really in to computers. My first real encounter was when our system kept freezing. I did loads of study and found programs to get rid of the 100s of malware we had on there. Since then all self experience taking apart and experimenting with computers, joining forums and reading through manuals. Though still in College, I do work experience at a local computer company to increase my confidence - not so much knowledge, but confidence what I was doing was correct and not just a teen boy who thought he knew it, but was wrong. Heh. I come on F1 to challenge you technicians so I learn from my mistakes and misunderstandings, like I did Speedy about graphic usage with video editing - though I still disagree as I do editing right now on 4 different machines comparing tasks - but my knowledge is growing at the moment in the graphics area of computing. If I do challenge you.. please, don't think I'm aggressive and joined here for debates and making trouble! I simply want to be put right by the professionals - So far I've learned everything by myself and it's deemed correct knowledge and understanding so I need those to correct me at times. :P |
Chris09 (15218) | ||
| 808585 | 2009-09-11 05:21:00 | I come on F1 to challenge you technicians Sorry - cant resist this -- naughty on a Friday :) Its the third button --- NO :groan: - the other Third button (www.imagef1.net.nz) :D :lol: |
wainuitech (129) | ||
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