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Offline apollo

Re: Why IT is a safe career for Traditional Catholics?
« Reply #40 on: February 25, 2019, 03:29:46 AM »
Statistics is in the math field which may be hard to find work in.
Insurance companies use statisticians, but you may have to compete
with people who have masters degrees in math or statistics.
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Offline Alan

Re: Why IT is a safe career for Traditional Catholics?
« Reply #41 on: February 25, 2019, 04:32:20 AM »
Quote from: apollo on February 25, 2019, 03:29:46 AM
Statistics is in the math field which may be hard to find work in.
Insurance companies use statisticians, but you may have to compete
with people who have masters degrees in math or statistics.


It's so true!
You need a master degree to find jobs.
It's a very interesting subject to learn, but difficult to master due to the math involved.
Also there are not a lot of jobs.
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Offline Matthew

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Re: Why IT is a safe career for Traditional Catholics?
« Reply #42 on: February 25, 2019, 07:22:45 AM »
Quote from: apollo on February 25, 2019, 01:41:38 AM
I NEVER recommend IT careers to anybody, unless you just have to do it or can't do anything else.  
.
Why?  Because every 5 years half of what you know becomes obsolete.  There are some exceptions, (e.i. staying
at one company for 20 years and the company avoids upgrading to newer programming languages).  
Working for state or federal government is like this, slow to change.
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Problem.  You started working at age 25.  Now you are 50.  You are obsolete, a dinosaur.  New college graduates
are applying to your company who know the latest stuff and ready to work for a starting wage.  
You know the deal! 
By the way, I didn't announce it on CI (and due to my high profile, high target status I won't be handing the world the name of my employer on a silver platter) but I did find a software development job, able to work from home full-time, at the beginning of the year.
It's the first time I've been a hired, full-time employee since 2004. I've always been a contract worker, not necessarily by choice.
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Offline Stubborn

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Re: Why IT is a safe career for Traditional Catholics?
« Reply #43 on: February 25, 2019, 08:12:10 AM »
Quote from: Matthew on February 25, 2019, 07:22:45 AM
You know the deal!
By the way, I didn't announce it on CI (and due to my high profile, high target status I won't be handing the world the name of my employer on a silver platter) but I did find a software development job, able to work from home full-time, at the beginning of the year.
It's the first time I've been a hired, full-time employee since 2004. I've always been a contract worker, not necessarily by choice.
Huge congrats on being "able to work from home full-time." Deo Gratias!
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Offline Alan

Re: Why IT is a safe career for Traditional Catholics?
« Reply #44 on: July 10, 2019, 08:20:05 AM »
Quote from: apollo on February 25, 2019, 01:41:38 AM
I NEVER recommend IT careers to anybody, unless you just have to do it or can't do anything else.  
.
Why?  Because every 5 years half of what you know becomes obsolete.  There are some exceptions, (e.i. staying
at one company for 20 years and the company avoids upgrading to newer programming languages).  
Working for state or federal government is like this, slow to change.
.
Problem.  You started working at age 25.  Now you are 50.  You are obsolete, a dinosaur.  New college graduates
are applying to your company who know the latest stuff and ready to work for a starting wage.  
...
...
...
I could write a book about this subject.  There are some exceptions.  There are some good jobs out there.  
There are some good bosses out there.  But there are other good professions, also.   Pick one in which you will
be better at 50.

Wow, I had the same opinions as you !
That's why I chose to study something else years ago. For years, I didn't know what to study.
Finally I chose Statistics 8 years ago. Although it didn't benefit me much financially :(, it influenced my thinking a lot. It's very interesting and I'm still wanting to learn more... you may call me CRAZY!  ::)
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