Doki
2008-08-22 12:05:45 UTC
I understand some of you cungts have money coming out of your ears,
particularly if you're doing IT contracting. I don't, and looking at the way
that salaries are in my sector (environment / ecology), I may never have. So
I'm considering getting into a grad scheme for next year in a different
sector.
I've got a first class degree, which mainly covered ecology and landscape
stuff (ie restoration, LCA etc.), but I'm halfway inclined to say fuck the
lot and go and do something like management or IT where you can be shoved
into a fairly well paid job pretty sharpish (ie, £20k with the prospect of
the wages going up appreciably if you're good at it). Whatever I do, it's
got to be something where I do less than 60 hours a week, so I suspect that
rules out most large IT consultancies and banks. I don't especially object
to occasional night work but anything that requires regular night or
unsociable hours doesn't interest me - same goes for being packed off to
India for weeks at a time to get offshore bods up to speed. Going to London
is also something I'd like to avoid, but I'm within commuting distance of
Nottingham, Derby and Leicester.
Obviously my degree is fairly irrelevant in terms of vocational skills, but
I did maths, physics and business studies badly (more through a lack of GAF
rather than aptitude) at A level and can pick up technical info fairly
quickly. Would I be best looking at going doing further training myself (or
finding an employer who'll train me) or working my way up from the bottom?
What's flavour of the month qualification wise?
particularly if you're doing IT contracting. I don't, and looking at the way
that salaries are in my sector (environment / ecology), I may never have. So
I'm considering getting into a grad scheme for next year in a different
sector.
I've got a first class degree, which mainly covered ecology and landscape
stuff (ie restoration, LCA etc.), but I'm halfway inclined to say fuck the
lot and go and do something like management or IT where you can be shoved
into a fairly well paid job pretty sharpish (ie, £20k with the prospect of
the wages going up appreciably if you're good at it). Whatever I do, it's
got to be something where I do less than 60 hours a week, so I suspect that
rules out most large IT consultancies and banks. I don't especially object
to occasional night work but anything that requires regular night or
unsociable hours doesn't interest me - same goes for being packed off to
India for weeks at a time to get offshore bods up to speed. Going to London
is also something I'd like to avoid, but I'm within commuting distance of
Nottingham, Derby and Leicester.
Obviously my degree is fairly irrelevant in terms of vocational skills, but
I did maths, physics and business studies badly (more through a lack of GAF
rather than aptitude) at A level and can pick up technical info fairly
quickly. Would I be best looking at going doing further training myself (or
finding an employer who'll train me) or working my way up from the bottom?
What's flavour of the month qualification wise?