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| *Ostroff, Fair and Company>>>Technology |
Job for computer engineering? |
what kind of jobs is there for Computer engineering. software maker and stuff. Give me a good detail so i know what kind of job i want to do everyday till i die or retire. I'm going to microsoft. I worked in computer programming and general support for general business. This grew into help desk, computer security, data forensics, a great pattern of different responsibilities. I like it because no two days are the same, a constant flow of interesting challenges. I recognize that most people are not interested in having an interesting life, their primary interest is in earning lots of money. It used to be that design engineering for the major computer manufacturers and operating system suppliers was the cream of the work available to the computer profession from a pay perspective, but no more. Unless you live in India, those jobs are drying up & moving to India. Quite possibly the equivalent today are the computer consultancies, typically companies that are like the big accounting auditor companies, that when they visit a client site, they need computer experts that can figure out what's going on in the client computer system. So one week you are at a site run on a UNIX system, next week at a site run on LINUX, week after that a place with a network of Microsoft servers, next week it is a SUN system, then an IBM. Their software may be in C, Java, .NET, DOS, Cobol, something you never heard ot before. You have to figure out how to navigate it, hit the ground running. I figure that kind of job, today might be the most exciting, challenging, and most lucrative of all computer professions, and unlikely to be off shore outsourced for decades, because a person to be successful there also needs to understand our business culture, and applications, which is one of the areas seriously lacking in present day off shore outsourcing. There are tens of thousands of companies that have business systems and want Information Technology employees to keep those systems running smoothly. To succeed, you have to know the computer system network, the packages running on them, how to modify them, where potential flaws are, how to test changes to the software, how to locate data flaws and repair them. Potentially a huge spectrum of areas to get experience in, and become good at, and the field is so vast that no one person can learn it all. The operating systems are very different, there are hundreds of computer languages and tools. You have to figure out what works when communicating with people of different mind sets, to identify their needs, satisfy them. I only know enough Microsoft to operate their stuff. My expertise is in IBM midrange systems, have worked in ERP for the last few decades, transportation, retail wholesale before that. Each industry has its unique areas. You really have to know the applications ... accounting, product structure, government regulations, whatever, before you can be competent to alter software that operates in whatever application. Last but not least, a pal of mine is trying to help people succeed in the job market of today, which is very different from how it was when I entered it over 40 years ago. You might find some more ideas from http://www.interviewrx.com/index... |
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