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I've noticed it occur 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 stop maintaining up with the most recent technologies, they stop studying, they no longer preserve their CCNA, MCSE, and other business certifications up-to-date.... and then 1 day, their comfortable job is gone.
Possibly they get laid off, possibly the firm moves and they don't want to move with it... but for a single reason or another, they're in the worst position possible. They have no job, and they have permitted 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 constantly finding out. You have to continually take the extended view, and ask your self three crucial inquiries. 1st, exactly where do you want to be in three years? Second, what are you undertaking now in order to reach this aim? And lastly, if you had been laid off nowadays, are your current skills sharp adequate to quickly get an additional 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 four. certification, because the network operating systems that certification was primarily based upon would no longer be supported by MS. (Maintain in mind that this modify was announced months in advance, giving these holding the MCSE 4. plenty of time to earn the most recent MS certification.)
Some MCSE four.0s just went nuts. Microsoft's certification magazine printed letter following letter from angry MCSEs saying that their firm would often run NT 4., and that there was no cause 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 four.. Let's also say that they got laid off yesterday. Would you want to go out into the current IT workplace and have your most current network operating technique expertise be on NT 4. ? I positive would not.
The truth is that you have got to continue studying, continue growing, and continue finding out new items if you want to have a effective lengthy-term IT career. If you plan on studying only a single topic, receiving into IT, and then by no means cracking a book once again, you're getting into the wrong field. And for those of us who have been in it for a even though - again, ask yourself this question: "Am I ready for what would happen if I were laid off these days?" And if you are not, do some thing about it!
