The title says it all. Well, it says IT. What is IT? IT is an acronym for "IT Technology" and its one of the most lucrative industries in today's marketplace. But what exactly is it? And more importantly, how can I be successful in IT?
The first stepping stone in a career in IT is to get an IT degree - a computer science, informations systems or computing degree. They are all the same thing and they all mean IT. Yeah you have to go to university for a while, but its actually very easy to cheat at university in IT in Australian universities. This is because Australian universities have lots of overseas students, who can only pass their exams by cheating off the 5% of intelligent English speaking students. This lowers the average mark and makes it pretty easy for us English speakers to do the same.
Once you've got your degree in IT, you can do anything from designing award winning web pages, building revolutionary new search algorithms, fixing hardware and troubleshooting Windows. At this point in history, computers are so well understood that there are almost zero technological roadblocks to realising complex abstract concepts as functioning, internet ready systems in real time.
But hold your horses' iCloud 2.0..... if that's all true, why haven't IT professional solved world hunger and made me an iPhone app that can run on my windows mobile? Sorry, that's not how capitalism works. Unfortunately, the competitive marketplace requires all IT professionals to pretend everything is quite difficult and tedious, and that technological advances are made slowly and accumulate over time. That way they can pretend when they release the next version of the iPad that it is actually an achievement, and not just really, really easy and all they did was drink coffee on yachts with champagne while playing Xbox (which we could have had back in 1995 easily).
Because IT is so easy, you don't really need to know anything about it to take advantage of it, that's what IT professionals are for. You just need to know how to make them promise to do what they would say is almost impossible, but we all know is actually a very simple matter. That's why google employees just sit around in their offices all day mucking around. Seriously, the google website is only two pages!
This is a handy thing to remember when you're dealing with IT professionals - it helps if you keep telling them to hurry up. Because chances are they could solve all your problems in a few minutes but they are just putting off the work to create the illusion of complexity. All computer programs are fundamentally composed of 1s and 0s, which is about as simple as things get. Imagine how easy maths would be using only 1s and 0s!
Also, the apparent disciplines of IT are completely fake. There isn't really a difference between a "web designer" or "software architect" or "help desk" or "perl programmer" - they all have IT degrees. If an IT professional is being coy by saying that what you're asking of them is outside their field of expertise, chances are you can prompt them to change their mind simply by saying "But you're in IT, aren't you?"
Don't be fooled, IT is easy and the only thing stopping you from being the next Bill Gates is other people's laziness.
The first stepping stone in a career in IT is to get an IT degree - a computer science, informations systems or computing degree. They are all the same thing and they all mean IT. Yeah you have to go to university for a while, but its actually very easy to cheat at university in IT in Australian universities. This is because Australian universities have lots of overseas students, who can only pass their exams by cheating off the 5% of intelligent English speaking students. This lowers the average mark and makes it pretty easy for us English speakers to do the same.
Once you've got your degree in IT, you can do anything from designing award winning web pages, building revolutionary new search algorithms, fixing hardware and troubleshooting Windows. At this point in history, computers are so well understood that there are almost zero technological roadblocks to realising complex abstract concepts as functioning, internet ready systems in real time.
But hold your horses' iCloud 2.0..... if that's all true, why haven't IT professional solved world hunger and made me an iPhone app that can run on my windows mobile? Sorry, that's not how capitalism works. Unfortunately, the competitive marketplace requires all IT professionals to pretend everything is quite difficult and tedious, and that technological advances are made slowly and accumulate over time. That way they can pretend when they release the next version of the iPad that it is actually an achievement, and not just really, really easy and all they did was drink coffee on yachts with champagne while playing Xbox (which we could have had back in 1995 easily).
Because IT is so easy, you don't really need to know anything about it to take advantage of it, that's what IT professionals are for. You just need to know how to make them promise to do what they would say is almost impossible, but we all know is actually a very simple matter. That's why google employees just sit around in their offices all day mucking around. Seriously, the google website is only two pages!
This is a handy thing to remember when you're dealing with IT professionals - it helps if you keep telling them to hurry up. Because chances are they could solve all your problems in a few minutes but they are just putting off the work to create the illusion of complexity. All computer programs are fundamentally composed of 1s and 0s, which is about as simple as things get. Imagine how easy maths would be using only 1s and 0s!
Also, the apparent disciplines of IT are completely fake. There isn't really a difference between a "web designer" or "software architect" or "help desk" or "perl programmer" - they all have IT degrees. If an IT professional is being coy by saying that what you're asking of them is outside their field of expertise, chances are you can prompt them to change their mind simply by saying "But you're in IT, aren't you?"
Don't be fooled, IT is easy and the only thing stopping you from being the next Bill Gates is other people's laziness.
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