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I've noticed it come about time and once more to programmers, network engineers and administrators, and other IT personnel. They get a strong IT position, a very good-paying job, and they get comfortable. They quit maintaining up with the most current technologies, they cease studying, they no longer preserve their CCNA, MCSE, and other sector certifications up-to-date.... and then 1 day, their comfy job is gone.
Possibly they get laid off, maybe the organization moves and they never want to move with it... but for one cause or an additional, they are in the worst position feasible. They have no job, and they have allowed their IT skills to deteriorate to the point where they are no longer employable.
If you're in IT, you should be continuously studying. You should continually take the long view, and ask yourself three critical questions. First, exactly where do you want to be in three years? Second, what are you carrying out now in order to attain this goal? And finally, if you have been laid off these days, are your current abilities sharp enough to speedily get an additional job?
That third query can be the hardest of all to answer honestly. I'm 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 based upon would no longer be supported by MS. (Preserve in thoughts that this change was announced months in advance, providing these holding the MCSE 4. plenty of time to earn the latest MS certification.)
Some MCSE four.0s just went nuts. Microsoft's certification magazine printed letter following letter from angry MCSEs saying that their business would often run NT four., and that there was no explanation for them to ever upgrade their certification.
This wasn't just denial. This was career 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 present IT workplace and have your most recent network operating technique experience be on NT four. ? I positive wouldn't.
The truth is that you've got to continue studying, continue increasing, and continue understanding new factors if you want to have a profitable long-term IT career. If you program on studying only one topic, acquiring into IT, and then never ever cracking a book once more, you happen to be entering the incorrect field. And for those of us who have been in it for a whilst - again, ask oneself this query: "Am I prepared for what would happen if I had been laid off right now?" And if you happen to be not, do one thing about it! [ LAGbook]
