Originally Posted by
racerraul
The want a single person to be to manage switches, routers, Intel, Sun @ hardware levels as well as be proficient with Databases (weather SQL or Oracle), IIS, Unix, Windows & the latests VMWare and pay them 40-50K? Are you fucking kidding me?
You left out: security expert, programmer, web designer, network engineer, manager, customer service rep, telecom vendor, phone system guru... (I could go on) and they expect it done on a shoestring budget.
the IT field is highly over rated and over paid. there are things that we need much more and have more of an impact on our lifes if it goes down than come computer bs and they don't get paid half as much... its bullshit.
IT fags get paid way more than fire fighters. how much bullshit is that?
And that my friend is why you are where you are in life. I'm not saying your dumb, just ignorant. IT
is in the top ten of most important jobs on the planet.
Firefighting is a respectable thing to do, but the skill level required is incomparable. Almost anyone can quickly learn how to extinguish a fire and give CPR.