Need job ideas.

[Th3 RiCk]

I'll be moving to Dallas within the next year and I need some job ideas. I'll be working full time until I go back to school in about a year and a half. So I need some ideas of bigger city jobs that pay $10+ per hour. I have 3 years line cook and prep experience. I'm 19 now, but I'll be 20 when I'm job searching. I have 2 years of college under my belt, but no degree (which is why I'm headed to Texas). I also have some pretty good educational achievements.. high school and college national honor society, graduated in top 5% of class, full scholarship to college, deans list, blah blah blah. Not sure if any of that will make a difference. I'm not really looking for another restaurant job, but I'm open to anything. So what are some good ideas?

[BirdOfPrey01]

Dude, right now texas/arizona/new mexico are huge hot spots for jobs.

right now you can land a job in IT in thoughs three states for 70k starting, thats granted you are knowledgeable and experienced/certified/qualified for the job...

Thanks to all these bullsh*t so called "schools" giving away certifications... It makes the industry saturated in morons that know nothing and have no experience.

Everyone wants to say the IT industry is garbage... thats because they are not very knowledgeable in what they wanted to do (networking/programming/multimedia/database)... to get a "Real IT Job", you cannot be some shmuck moron that went to a bullsh*t school that achieved a certificate (A+, Net+, Cisco, MS, Linux)

You must goto a 4 year college or atleast a 2 year and they must be accredited or universities should atleast accept most of the credits, you must have a great interest in your work and ideas, you must stay on top of new techonology, new software, new systems and environments, new networking solutions and security management.

If you think you can goto some PC Productivity 5 month class or private non accredited school then you are mistaken and you will not land a IT job doing anything serious or management wise or even technical. You will either 1.) end up with a laughable $7.00 wannabe tech job at radio shack, or 2.) you will not have a job at all and crying that school was a waste of time and IT jobs are dead. Like the thousands of other misinformed people.

Rules...

If you are going to school for IT strickly because you want to make money... Get the f*ck out and goto school for something else because this is not a industry that hires peoples that based on certification or basic simple knowledge. Technology is constantly changing and you MUST know how to operate what you are dealing with. Also, to perform a networking/programming/database type IT job they require a special interest, and lots, and I mean lots of trouble shooting / problem solving.

You have to actually know your "sh*t", You have to know it so well that when someone asks you a question you can describe to them in the smallest detail what is going on in a system or network or you will end up like the rest of the thousands of people out their complaining they paid $5000 to goto school and they couldnt get a IT job, its because they know nothing more than what the basic book tells them. And trust me, No book will ever tell you how to do everything in this field of work, EVER!

My friend has worked many contracted IT jobs in the past year. This is his first year, its normal to work contracted jobs because it gains you experience. When employeers in this field see that you have potential, you take a special interest and you constantly gain knoweldge and stay on top of the game with a interest, they can help you with future careers. [img]smile.gif[/img]

My friend was working with a contractor for GE Medical. This was his first job in this field, he had a decent ammount of home experience with networking and some security with an associates degree at ITT and basic certifications. If it wasn't for his major interest and ability to gain knowledge constantly every day out of his own will, ITT alone would have not gotten him serious jobs.

Anyways...

After 6 months he started to grow with the team and they put him in charge of hiring people on a couple projects.

Almost 90% of the people that he interviewed could not answer basic networking questions yet they have a certification and some even an associates at small community or private colleges. Yet they were stumped by anything not in the books they studied.

Trust me, if you like to sit in front of a computer for hours and love problem solving data/network solutions, then you will have a great enjoyable career thats high paid.

If you work hard and become extremely knowledgeable, keep up to date with technology right to the bits and bones, make yourself known by many employeers, you will land a permanent job.

With what you gain at the small contracted jobs, you can create a portfolio and book of references, that will keep you job security for a lifetime.

[ January 17, 2005, 04:56 AM: Message edited by: BirdOfPrey01 ]