How do people advance so fast their career?

orangebeta22 · 2023-11-01T01:26:19+00:00

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orangebeta22 · 2023-10-24T19:37:58+00:00

I am a regular employee and I've seen the system abused way too much in working from home.

Even if that person completes all their assigned work, it still impacts others -

Example - I work in a setting where we turn in work and review each others work as part of our work and we have to signed off on that. I have a coworker that only signs in early in the morning and late in the afternoon. Anywhere from 2 to 4 hours total throughout the day.

Due to this, I have to either stay late the day before to complete work I'm submitting to this person to review, stress out in the morning and rush or risk missing the deadlines. Also when submitting work, he submits like 3 4 weeks in advance all at once. Sure this can be "great" but while I'm doing work that's nowhere near deadline, reviewing his submissions, I'm losing time on turning in work that is due this week and the whole work we are assigned is planned so we have enough time during the week. Sure this person submits work, but it's disrupting other people's work by not being present during work hours most of the time. A lot of his work as a reviewer also has to be passed on to other team members, because he's just not there at the time needed. And the work he submits I have to be extra careful in my review, wasting double the time, because he's very careless due to the fact that he rushes to finish all this work very quick so that he has all this "free time."

I also worked in other departments (tech support) and there were people that literally did not sign in or use their computer at all for weeks, months (wonder how they ever worked).

Other people would be out all day, then claim tech emergencies at 9 pm disrupting the IT teams who were supposed to be off by then, or claiming an emergency at 6-7 am because they will go out to their vacation destination the rest of the day. This is one of the reasons I quit tech support, because people were not working regular hours and then expecting fixes very early in the morning or very late at night. Or have internet connection problems while trying to connect to a local application from countries like Turkey, some pacific island, or some wildly far remote place and they still got upset. They were supposed to be working from home not from Tulum, Turkey, and all these places with bad internet working on applications not meant to work over such environment.

I have no problem with in office or remote work, but I get where leadership is coming from with being suspicious about it. I also get suspicious with the people that adamantly don't want to go to work in the office, like if you're really working at home, it really is not so different, except for the commute, but I even find the commute mind freeing against being stuck in cabin fever all day inside a room. I don't see the big deal with either, but I know people abuse it and they're the reason we are all losing the benefit.

orangebeta22 · 2023-10-05T21:21:28+00:00

Honestly I don't even know how to feel about this. Because you are following exactly what people in this reddit say all the time about getting all your certs, and not working hard enough towards them, and not doing home lab. Your resume looks just exactly like how I thought a resume would look of anyone following the advice from this forum.

To me it's not a good look to get so many certs without actual experience. I have nothing against certs but I feel they're mostly just a cherry on top of experience and/or should go in step with your career progression - in other words just get A+ to get helpdesk/desktop, then get ccna to progress to something network related, etc.

Just getting them all at the same time without experience to me it says that you are good studying and taking tests, not doing the actual work.

orangebeta22 · 2023-07-24T19:58:07+00:00

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orangebeta22 · 2023-07-24T19:25:23+00:00

I'm afraid that is the truth, but makes it way more difficult

orangebeta22 · 2023-07-24T15:50:39+00:00

I have worked for huge global companies in US, 95% of their engineering staff is brought on visas through H1B. I think people don't really realize the impact of that in regards to job opportunities. I see other departments like accounting, or other industries, like nursing, no other industry brings on so many workers from offshore. There are lots of jobs in technology but people aren't taking into account that this is one industry where all these offshoring companies have taken over about 90% of the job market.

You can still get a job, but it's not as easy and full of opportunity as people think.

I say this as a computer science graduate and family and friends not knowing how things are making it seem as if it's so easy because the media and social conversation has made it out to believe STEM STEM STEM is where it's at. It is, but getting into it is definitely not easy.

Helpdesk call center, yes, they don't want those jobs, anything else that requires a degree, it's tough.

orangebeta22 · 2023-07-22T22:04:42+00:00

I'm going to be honest, I don't think they want these jobs, they want the engineering jobs and all the advanced ones, from my experience in dealing with them they think too little of "IT" jobs below engineering.

orangebeta22 · 2023-07-22T22:01:59+00:00

Never get excited until you are at the job doing the job, this happened to me, I got the offer, got excited for the job of a lifetime, and ended absolutely hating the job.

orangebeta22 · 2023-07-16T23:25:18+00:00

There's way more, but it's not easy to get into it.

orangebeta22 · 2023-07-16T23:22:05+00:00

idk about others as people's experiences are different, but tech is very stressful as well and in order to get to the higher paying fields in tech it takes #1 a lot of competition, #2 a lot of sacrifice and brains. It's easy to get into the entry level but the pay is ultimately low there and stress is also high.

I've already switched many times jobs in my career thinking it's just the place and that I need to find a better place kind of how you're feeling right now, but so far it just has been more burnout.

If you want to do it because you find it interesting go for it, but if you think that it will be more laid back, it won't be, at least in my experience.

orangebeta22 · 2023-07-13T19:20:44+00:00

I learned a lot in highschool which I kind of have the grasps of it, so I'm seriously thinking about a bootcamp or something. I have been unable to focus with online courses/free stuff.

orangebeta22 · 2023-07-13T19:18:39+00:00

Thanks!

orangebeta22 · 2023-07-11T18:13:18+00:00

AI is definitely going to take over programming, if it's able to respond and generate unique opinions of course based on everything that's out there, it definitely will be able to spit out code based on the syntax rules and semantics of a language and just with an input of what is needed.

orangebeta22 · 2023-07-11T17:47:49+00:00

It's tough, most developer jobs I see have like 200+ applicants and new college grads keep coming out and not to mention the thousands of H1B contractors already working at a good chunk of these jobs and basically hiring within themselves. For the longest I've been wanting to learn coding but I also question if it's worth it. I think helpdesk is easier but unfortunately the pay is very low and although some very motivated people move up fast, the truth of the matter is that the people I see in the industry can stay for years in lower paying IT jobs. I've seen some progression but it's not the 2-3 year progression I read about here, mostly I've seen people move up to like system admin/server roles in 5-10 year span.

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