Are you fed up of feeling undervalued in the workplace? Hate the sound of that alarm?
Yep! 
Well, like OMFG, did you know you can earn £60k in IT
Reaiillyyy, like how?
Take a course with <insert random IT training company here> and take your career path the right way
Like jeezomfg, the evil government. They’ve been conning me with the promise of a pension scheme. I’m going into IT.
FFS, you *cannot* go into IT. You cannot take a course and magically be this brilliant programmer. The computer Christ. It doesn’t work like that, you misleading capitalist, pigs.
From my own example. My dad was always into computers. Our first computer was an Amstrad CPC 464. At the age of 6-7 I started playing around in BASIC.
10 CLS
20 PRINT OMFG I CAN PROGRAMME
From that I move onto the best ‘PC’ of all time, the Amiga. To Amos. I did lose my way there, and indeed realised in later years, I was cack at programming.
I consider myself intermediate in IT skills. Intermediate; there’s so many people I know that are just so much more smarter, and make me feel IT illiterate.
I personally find these idiotic TV adverts insulting.
You cannot learn IT in a course.
The cretins that peddle these courses demonstrate just how valuable they are with their marketing ignorance.
If you want to spend years learning about computers and how they work, fine. Great, welcome aboard to geek land.
If you want to go on a course and become an overnight pro VB programmer, (or more commonly, OMFG I CAN USE OFFICE!!!!11) and bore me with how great you think you are with computers and the internet, go do one, thicky.
i remember seing 1 of those in the papaer recently, guarenteed a job and also gurenteed something like 24k a year starting in IT
all it required was for you to do a 30 day it course costing 500 pounds, so you learn 30 days of it and get a job in it :/
It all depends what you define as IT. Remember that TV ad that had that guy saying “how would you like to be programming games instead of playing them?” “I’ve heard that it doesn’t pay well.” “How does 30k a year and a company car sound?” “Wow.”
I think I speak for the entire games industry when I say that someone who only programs games for 30k a year and a company car can get the f*** out of our industry. I know telented people who got turned down for programming jobs after getting Masters in computer games programming from good universities. They had to go away and build games from scratch and then start in at a low level for big games corporations.
You can put people on a course that teaches them MS Office, you can put people on a course that teaches them (rudimentary) Java, C++, VB, you can put people on a course that shows them how to build PCs and rig networks. You can put one person on all these courses and he still wouldn’t know IT, he’d know some MS Office, some programming, some hardware, and some networking.
John
lol i can program in msword amirite
i want to hack ppl over teh intarwebs omg i am so leet
…
*deep sigh*
How did you learn how to spell?
school.
You CAN learn any aspect of IT in a course. Perhaps you wont be the best. maybe you wont be able to work your way round certain problems from experience. But you pick these things up in years.
But you CAN learn how to do a certain job.
Everything is learnt one way or another.
I agree with r2d2 on this one. You can learn IT, but only to a certain extent. Of course you can take courses to learn things, but they aren’t things you can learn yourself from home without paying.
IT is difference from Maths for example. you can’t pick up a maths book and go through it learning everything, because you need someone who knows it to verify your correct in your working etc. IT is similar, but, you can verify these things yourself.
If you were to make a game for example, you write your code, and your character opens a door. If you go to said door, and it doesnt open, something is wrong with your code. The programmer knows he only needs to look at the door part of the code.
With maths, you would need to look at the entire sum from start to end, you have no way of telling where its gone wrong, or what your doing is correct in any way.
Alot of IT is trial and error. You don’t need to be a networking expert to setup a basic network. As long as the basics are in place, to somoene who doesn’t know wtf your doing, your a genius to them, when all you’ve done is stick in a router and make it dial up to your ISP.
IT can be learnt, but a course is never required to learn it.