List of jobs I had with no vocational training, and no higher education:
1. Managed a fast food restaurant, as assistant manager. Lousy money, lousy hours, lousy boss.
2. Sold vacuum cleaners door to door in Eagledale. These sweepers were worth more than the cars in the driveway of my territory. Horrible pay, horrible hours, horrible boss.
3. Sold buyers club memberships, the buyers club was really a furniture store I found out. Virtually no pay, etc etc
4. Back in the restaurant management business, got transferred out of state, to a crappy city, low pay, no fun, never be an assistant manager.
5. Moved back...went to work hanging duct work and installing furnaces for a non-union outfit. Low pay, lots of miles on my truck, huge investment in tools. Company folded.
6. Got an insurance license and started selling life and health insurance...this was my first decent job. It lasted 18 months.
7. Worked for a major bank in their warehouse, low pay, low bennies, got married, had kids...quit and went into retail sales.
8. Retails sales, consumer goods, long hours, decent pay, crap bennies, taught my self some computer skills.
Then I got some education, and I have been doing what I do now for almost 40 years. My college degree was in computer technology...all it did was get my foot in the door. Every thing they taught me back then is for naught now...I have learned and forgotten more IT technology that I can shake a stick at. Working in IT requires being a student, always, and never get romantically connected with an operating system or computer platform...it's all going to be gone and replaced with something new about every three years. If you are a bad student, don't go the IT route. You won't last long.
IT Security is big and getting bigger. If I was a young pup starting out in IT today, I would go that route..if you want to command a career in that field you will need a Masters Degree in Computer Science, or System analysis. So find a job that has tuition reimbursement or score well enough on your ASVAB tests to get an IT security education in the Navy or Air Force.
IT Security is big and getting bigger. If I was a young pup starting out in IT today, I would go that route..if you want to command a career in that field you will need a Masters Degree in Computer Science, or System analysis. So find a job that has tuition reimbursement or score well enough on your ASVAB tests to get an IT security education in the Navy or Air Force.
Do not make fun of Eagledale. I was raised there. I am the original Eagletuckian and still live just north of that area.
You most likely knocked on our door at some point.
Imply purple as needed.
I should learn about IT security.
Personally, one of my favorite things is get lectured by millenials about how much harder they have it now than we ever did...a diatribe they can deliver without looking up from their 256g iPhone X ($1,149).
Personally, one of my favorite things is get lectured by millenials about how much harder they have it now than we ever did...a diatribe they can deliver without looking up from their 256g iPhone X ($1,149).