MorrisManning775
I've observed it happen time and again to programmers, network engineers and administrators, and other IT personnel. They get a solid IT position, a excellent-paying job, and they get comfy. They cease keeping up with the most current technologies, they quit studying, they no longer hold their CCNA, MCSE, and other market certifications up-to-date.... and then one day, their comfy job is gone.
Perhaps they get laid off, maybe the organization moves and they don't want to move with it... but for one particular purpose or yet another, they're in the worst position possible. They have no job, and they have allowed their IT skills to deteriorate to the point exactly where they are no longer employable.
If you happen to be in IT, you have to be consistently studying. You should continually take the lengthy view, and ask oneself 3 essential queries. Initial, where do you want to be in three years? Second, what are you doing now in order to reach this aim? And lastly, if you were laid off right now, are your existing capabilities sharp enough to speedily get yet another job?
That third query can be the hardest of all to answer honestly. I am reminded of Microsoft announcing years ago that they would no longer be recognizing the MSCE 4. certification, given that the network operating systems that certification was based upon would no longer be supported by MS. (Maintain in thoughts that this adjust was announced months in advance, giving these holding the MCSE four. lots of time to earn the most recent MS certification.)
Some MCSE four.0s just went nuts. Microsoft's certification magazine printed letter after letter from angry MCSEs saying that their business would constantly run NT 4., and that there was no reason for them to ever upgrade their certification.
This wasn't just denial. This was profession suicide. Let's say that their network never ever moved from NT 4.. Let's also say that they got laid off yesterday. Would you want to go out into the existing IT workplace and have your most current network operating system knowledge be on NT four. ? I confident would not.
The reality is that you have got to continue studying, continue developing, and continue learning new issues if you want to have a productive extended-term IT career. If you plan on studying only 1 topic, receiving into IT, and then in no way cracking a book again, you're entering the wrong field. And for those of us who have been in it for a while - again, ask your self this query: "Am I ready for what would happen if I have been laid off right now?" And if you are not, do one thing about it! link
