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Originally Posted by KillerGremlin
The IT market is great...but IT jobs have pretty firm ceilings in terms of pay and mobility. You really need to mingle with business if you want to move up in the IT world. The problem with IT sectors in companies is that you don't net any money for the company. I mean you do, but it isn't tangible and accounting and HR execs could give a shit less about what you do. I've been there, btw, so I know how the money tug-of-war for better computers goes and how it is ALL. ABOUT. CUTTING. COSTS. Having the IT knowledge and then going into business should give you a big leg up and let you expand your salary. If that's your bag.
I realize I am being highly presumptuous that you want to expand your salary. IT positions can probably net you a comfy 45k-80k salary depending on location and experience.
If I may ask though, what has brought you to your 6th year of school?
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Taking time off of school to work full time hours, class availability, not passing all of my classes like a good student should.
Note that I say full time hours by the way. I'm a part time employee on my campus. They have horrible means of handing their money through budgeting and after starting at 8 dollars an hour four years ago, to then take two and a half years to give me a raise up to 9, they tell me that they need two people to come in an hour earlier because the CIO thinks it's useful to have someone that early to respond and answer phone calls (which it isn't. I have yet to receive a phone call for something urgent earlier than 8:45, maybe 8:30 the earliest and this was before they asked me to adjust my hours). The best they can offer me as incentive for doing this is that I can stay an additional half hour (since I'd need to be leaving at 4:30 to have an 8 hour day) and get paid time and a half for overtime (which would be a grand total of 5 hours per pay period). I say yes because I'd like to try and get SOME more money from working here because when I had gotten that raise they told me to not see a raise in the foreseeable future since they're so tight with the money from the budget, so it's the best I can do; I'm also the only part time employee staying extra hours by the way).
So today I find out that two of my co-workers got raises recently, one of whom started a few months after me and was already getting paid more than I did when he was hired (the only thing he had over me was A+ and N+ certification that he got in high school and it wasn't even valid anymore anyway, those have to be renewed; we both had no professional work experience in IT), and another who started a year ago (possibly even less), and he started like me, with no certs, and no work experience. The newer guy was also getting paid more than me from the start because now his raise actually brought him up to 10 bucks an hour, which means he was getting paid the same as I have been after my raise for the last year and a half. It's not a cost of living or minimum wage thing either, too. Minimum wage is still 7.75 here in Florida, which I was already getting paid more than that when I started, so he was given that money from the start willingly.
So the best I get is overtime which isn't guaranteed always because I have to take time off for class during the day and I have frequent doctor visits thanks to having Cystic Fibrosis and diabetes that I have to take unpaid days off for (since obviously no benefits), while two other people get raises and one of them has a third of the amount of professional experience than I do?
I'm sorry but if that isn't ridiculous, I don't know what is.
yeah yeah tl;dr