IT BS thread

Don't think that with no experience and a 4 year degree that anyone will hire you for 50k + a year. The economy crash fixed that. As a computer engineering grad, the average coming out of ISU (top tier engineering college and 2nd highest paid engineering degree) was only 45k. 30-40k is a good estimate for coming out of college in IT especially here in Iowa. Now if you throw 5 years of experience with it, 50-60 is more reasonable.


As for the degree, if you are going to get a 2 year degree in IT, then do it. I wouldn't recommend wasting your money on a general education degree though.

 

I'm not worried about a bachelor's degree at all. The only thing is, where I'm going to school I have to have gen. ed. classes in order to get the degree I want. It's just a "rule". What I want to do is work on an Associates in this field while working part time at a job related to the work. Then, graduate and move on to a full-time job. After the first couple years I'm hoping for 30k-ish. Just work my way up from there. (With no school debt, mind you)

 

That sounds like a good idea. I know every degree will have gen ed classes, just make sure the really expensive paper says something about computers or IT on it.

 

Yeah it's also called baccalaureate core classes, and yes, those ARE primarily crap. One of those classes for me was listening to Rage Against the Machine and writing about Bob Marley.

One of the things you may be interested in is internship-type credit classes.
Oregon State University, for example, has MECOP, which is where they pair you with a job in your industry. You don't get paid, but you get school credit and a very high chance of continuing with the company once you graduate.


All I'm trying to say about your plans is don't sell yourself short. If you can make more schooling work and you have the energy, do it. School debt isn't that bad if you are good with your money. My payments are $325/mo and I could technically pay double without flinching.

 

A lot of good points made here.

I just wanted some reassurance and advice from people with experience in this field. Which, I got a lot of very good feedback. I just need to look into course offerings and things like that. I'll link you guys up with the course offerings for this area.

 

Good Luck!

 

Hey evil monkey, I have an HP dv9700. Running windows vista home p.

 

IT SUCKS! I have given it 20 years of my life and for what?? 2 bankrupt companies, and a layoff.

OK. It does not suck. The bankruptcies and layoffs DO suck, but man, I LOVE TECHNOLOGY! Zach, don't be afraid to start at the bottom. You are in Intel Land, and they LOVE doing internships. Check their website. about half of the positions are internships.

It IS some hard work. Lots of after hours and weekends. (when else can you update a major app or system without disrupting the workforce?) But it is SO worth it.

I was recently laid off, but am actively looking at new positions, and looking at taking less pay. I have once entered the 100K realm, but am now looking in the 50K range, just because I like the work, and do not require 100K to live.

Zach, if you wanna grab a coffee or lunch and talk about it, lemme know.

 

That's too bad...

 

This is what my school offers:

Information Technology: Computer Programming
Information Technology: Database Administration
Information Technology: Electronic Commerce
Information Technology: Network Administration (MCSE Track)
Information Technology: Network Administration (MCSA Track)
Information Technology: Network Administration (CNA Track)
Information Technology: Web Development and Administration

 

Thats a really impressive list of options from a CC

 

Yea, it's actually a "Community and Technical College". Seems like all of those programs are the same except for just a few classes. I'm thinking this one. (Database Administration)

http://somerset.kctcs.edu/Academics/Programs_of_Study/~/media/Somerset/Academics/IT%20-%20Database%20Administration.ashx

 

Try:

<FN> + <F12> + <NUMLOCK> all at the same time

 

He was posting it to help troubleshoot his problem.

 

Here you guys go, I read this yesterday and found it interesting

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/249874/its_worst_addictions_and_how_to_cure_them.html

 

Did not work.

 

This is your kb?



I don't see what you mean. There's no special keys overlaid on the keyboard...?

I guess you didn't find anything in the BIOS? Can you take a good pic of your keyboard? This is really strange. I'm almost leaning towards hardware issue, anything change when you noticed this? Did you drop it, spill something on it, etc?

 

Kinda sounds like your keyboard thinks its another model of keyboard, laptops that don't have a dedicated number pad like yours use the jkl iop and 789 in place of a dedicated keypad. Things that come to mind would be checking the driver, and maybe look for one that has the dedicated keypad included.

 

I've seen a lot of questions from people where his same model is causing the same issue. Problem is, there are no posted solutions.

 

Lovely.

I keep thinking it's something buried in the BIOS.... but why would it change, unless someone was screwing with him? lol.

Edit - earlier I said registry, and meant BIOS. Derp.

This time I do mean registry - check
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard] "InitialKeyboardIndicators" - what is that value set to? Mine is set to a huge jumble of numbers, no clue why - but it seems if you set it to '2', Windows will default to the numlock on? Perhaps try setting it to 0...?

This is very odd, and yes I'm grabbing at straws .