Karen Challinor

UK

staring at clouds

well yeah

the perception of the majority of IT work is this

you use packages developed by someone else to do work for someone who doesn't understand the package and you catch all the flak when something goes wrong, in other words you are someones dogsbody

or

you work in a call centre working from a script someone else developed, you are everyones dogsbody

or

you work in an IT centre for non it literate managers who want quick fixes rather than solutions to problems because they (the managers) stupidly agreed an SLA with 100% uptime on the servers without providing any spare capacity so you can do maintenance or backups, so when something goes wrong you work through a pre prepared script which starts "reboot the server" and again you catch all the flak when something goes wrong.

so in a nutshell IT is perceived as a go nowhere, achieve nothing, earn peanuts job with long hours and no challenges other than finding the willpower to drag your protesting frame back to work for yet more abuse from people who know nothing about IT before tbeing tossed onto the scrapheap at 40-45 unless you make it into management

lets face it I don't want a career in IT these days so why should anyone else