Lifetime Careers in IT? 568
CyPlasm asks: "MSN Careers had this article posted the other day that asked about a "Lifetime Career in IT: Is It Possible?" Does the average Slashdot reader think they will retire (with a pension, benefits, etc) after a long and successful career in IT?"
No, I don't (Score:1, Funny)
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lifetime career indeed (Score:2, Funny)
Kevin's on the loose, beware!
Sure (Score:4, Funny)
Of course!!! (Score:4, Funny)
In order to have a lifelong career in IT... (Score:1, Funny)
I would first have to get a job in IT.
(current status: unemployed recent college grad. MIS major).
Sure, we have lifetime employment. (Score:5, Funny)
Hell no! (Score:5, Funny)
Of course by the time you retire.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Certainly (Score:5, Funny)
And I'll make sure you get another copy of that memo. Okay?
Benefits (Score:3, Funny)
No market for it (Score:4, Funny)
Sure, why not? (Score:2, Funny)
Oh yeah, and bribes. Lots of bribes.
Re:Certainly (Score:4, Funny)
The thing is Bob it's not that I am lazy, its that I just don't care...
In the New Economy (Score:2, Funny)
2. Bribe government officials for fat military contracts.
3. Retire!!!
Re:What's up with all the depressing career storie (Score:1, Funny)
Mod him down! Show him what _real_ pain is! We'll show him what stress is.
IT Dream (Score:2, Funny)
Re:45% to be unemployed in 2 to 5 years (Score:2, Funny)
get with the program! (Score:2, Funny)
that you were reading something on MSN, or
that you believe that your IT career can become lifetime employment.
Take my advice. Get involved with the local Mafia family (or one of five if you live in New York). That way, when you retire from IT, you can still work your next job as a button man. It sure beats guarding the door at Wal-Mart.
I love this! (Score:4, Funny)
1) Bring in lots of suckers out for the $$
2) Purge them with the bad economy
3) Post stuff all over the web about how terrible the IT field is so no one new enters.
4) Profit!!!!
Journalism is Dying! (Score:3, Funny)
Is this Good or Bad? (Score:2, Funny)
No, but it seems like several lifetimes already.
Re:Engineers are destined to get fired! (Score:5, Funny)
While on the subject, is anyone looking for a young, highly disciplined software developer? Please? Anyone? Help, the escape key isn't working!
Re:Sure (Score:2, Funny)
Hey! (Score:5, Funny)
What this probably means is that I'll die penniless - a broken man - and that my genius will only be discovered 200 years later after my death (when corporations are overthrown by the starving masses, declared illegal, and their suppressed documents are released, causing a second renaissance and pulling all the world out of the second dark ages).
Or I'll just do something else that I'm good at.
Possible ? (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, here are a few ways you can make it happen right now.
1. Take an electric cable and fit a plug on one end. Put the plug into an electric socket. Hold the other ends of two wires in your hands. Switch on the power supply and you can see Lifetime IT career reaching you soon at electric speed.
2. Take your server machine to the topmost floor. Tell your assistant to put down the server in five minutes. Go down to the ground floor and stand right below the server. Within five minutes, you can achieve lifetime IT career falling into you.
3. Disassemble all the parts of your computer. Eat the parts in the following order. Processor, RAM, Video Card, Audio Card, Motherboard. This method is so special that you can get rid of your hunger at the same time you acheive lifetime IT career. wow !
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Re:Hey! (Score:5, Funny)
You must be really small. Especially with the integration that is anticipated.
Seriously...
Re:It is possible... (Score:3, Funny)
Not exactly,,,, (Score:3, Funny)
To Die Penniless (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It would be nice to have that kind of job secur (Score:3, Funny)
Who says anybody *originally* understood it?
IBM (Score:3, Funny)
So to answer the question, If you work at IBM you have a career at IBM.