Career in IT? Never too late?

[rainman]

If you've already got management experience, do what someone else suggested and try and jump in on a non-technical level where you're actually telling people what to do, because it forking sucks on the other end of it.

Or you could just become an accountant... same difference in the end.

[Ixion]

Or a rent boy on K road. Same difference in the end (just a different end)

[Drunken Monkey]

I'm going to shamelessly hijack this thread to recruit.
I have a position open for a junior network engineer/help desk 'consultant'. Preferably 2+ years help desk experience with hands on desktop support experience. Based in Greenlane.
Please PM me for more details.

[Sanx]

What RantyDave said ... get into IT project management. You need absolutely no skills other than the following:

1. Ask "How long will it take?" before the project has actually started, or even been fully defined.
2. Learn to ask "Is it done yet?" after half of the time you were told in step one.
3. When told "No - I said it would take x, ask "Why is it taking so long?" and then glaze over when you receive an answer containing words of more than one syllable. Like "fuckwit".

See - easy! A well-paid job in IT Project Management awaits you.

[Nasty]

What RantyDave said ... get into IT project management. You need absolutely no skills other than the following:

1. Ask "How long will it take?" before the project has actually started, or even been fully defined.
2. Learn to ask "Is it done yet?" after half of the time you were told in step one.
3. When told "No - I said it would take [I]x/I], ask "Why is it taking so long?" and then glaze over when you receive an answer containing words of more than one syllable. Like "fuckwit".

See - easy! A well-paid job in IT Project Management awaits you.

Damn I knew I was doing something wrong ... I should have spoken to you first before i trained ... would have been so much easier!

[scracha]

See - easy! A well-paid job in IT Project Management awaits you.

You forgot
4 - Promise the customers lots of features that the software engineers say can't be implemented in time.

Anyway...here's something to cheer up the Mac & Linux fanboys