Retraining advice please?

I am also in IT, and also intend to leave it.

I am building my own house as alearning project. On bits I have little/no skill I get in a profesional who is prepared to have me work with them, so I learn as well as do all the donkey work for them.

It may be good training to work for somebody else for a month or two.

Rick

IANAP&D, but I bet most of it's straightforward. Take on some simple jobs 4 or 5 days a week and do 1 day's training. That way you're earning from day one. And learning is often a lot easier if you can see immediately why you need to know XYZ. Might be better not to tell any difficult customers why you have to have one day off, though :-)

Chris

I also work in IT and am considering leaving it ... please let us all know how you both get on!

TIA,

Alex

I am useless at decorating and am still naive enough to believe that IT could offer an interesting and lucrative career.

Owain

It's not the "technical" work, just that its all getting outsourced, offshored, offshore/onshored etc. Also, you start of wanting to build things and end up pen-pushing in service delivery or something. Which is fine if that's what you want to do, if not you wonder why you are doing it.

IT is not poorly paid but, its not the all its cracked up to be either. For example, my company is a big UK systems integrator has only had one round of pay awards in the last 4 years. Most of the big names in the UK have had thousands of redundancies since the dot com bubble burst. Things are not so bleak right now, but an increasing amount of the revenue is generated offshore.

IMO you could do worse than IT as a career, but you could do better.

HTH,

Alex.

There are similarities. You can suck your teeth and say 'who did you get to install this then', work is always delayed due to the wrong kind of tuits, no sooner do you finish than someone wants it altered, and there is always an unfinished imperfect bodged bit that only you notice, and the bit that rots.

Despite my best efforts to leave it, still in IT and to old to leave it.

Yep, thats pretty much the size of it! It would just be nice to work for yourself, no danger of having to explain how you do thing to an indian so that they can then do your job for you.