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I would estimate that the vast majority of IT jobs are not programming-related. Most are in technical support and admin. And an employer is just as likely (ma
by coolestuk 18y ago
I would estimate that the vast majority of IT jobs are not programming-related. Most are in technical support and admin. And an employer is just as likely (maybe more likely) to employ a liberal arts graduate to do technical support, as hire a graduate of a computing-related subject. I've worked in several smallish companies (circa 500 employees), where I was the only person in IT who had a computing-related degree. Furthermore, I was the only one who had any interest in IT per se, and the only one who had any knowledge of IT beyond what was required to do the job (even in that knowledge some of them were woefully ignorant). The truth of the matter is that there is a wide gulf between a university education and what employers actually want/need.