Top 10 Technology Careers

bjaxx

From yahoo
http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/career-articles-top_10_technology_careers-485

jbrown414

I always feel warm inside when I see the possible salary range for a database administrator. One day, that will be me.

JDMurray

No security management or Help Desk positions on that list. I guess all that tat will be off-shored anyway.

bjaxx

JDMurray wrote:

No security management or Help Desk positions on that list. I guess all that tat will be off-shored anyway.

number 9 for helpdesk.

rpsteele

JDMurray wrote:

No security management or Help Desk positions on that list. I guess all that tat will be off-shored anyway.

9. Computer Support Specialist

Same thing as help desk.

Slowhand

I've seen lists like that before, but what I notice is that in each case they're talking about "getting into this type of job with an online degree/online classes". Seems like the article assumes you've either got no degree or something completely unrelated, and you're looking to make the jump. If the salary ranges are accurate, then this is the bottom of the ladder, the "least experience/education needed", and someone with a computer science, engineering, or information systems degree from a well-known, reputable university is probably going to be shooting leaps and bounds beyond what the article mentions. (Especially when it comes to things like OS developer, would you rather hire a programmer that came from MIT or DeVry? Nothing against DeVry, but I think that the likes of MIT would definitely trump it.)

Slowhand

JDMurray wrote:

No security management or Help Desk positions on that list. I guess all that tat will be off-shored anyway.

I think we have to keep in mind that this is an article about "computer stuff", in the same way that your average HR manager hires a "computer guy". There were a lot of crucial jobs left off that list, such as network engineer vs. systems administrator and database developer vs. database administrator. I noticed that they didn't have web developer, web designer, or graphic designer, but they did have support technician for web farms. All in all, it's a nice list, but it's obvious that it's not aimed at us in the IT industry, but rather at the random office-workers that read Yahoo! News on their lunch breaks, wishing they had a high-paying job like the "those IT guys that sit around doing nothing".

scheistermeister

So being a Cisco guy you can't make money then? :P

networker050184

scheistermeister wrote:

So being a Cisco guy you can't make money then? :P

We tell them that there is no money in Cisco so there are more jobs for us!!!!

JDMurray

rpsteele wrote:

JDMurray wrote:

No security management or Help Desk positions on that list. I guess all that tat will be off-shored anyway.

9. Computer Support Specialist

Same thing as help desk.

Now Help Desk is narrowed down to only computer support? The Help Desk people are being marginalized at best.