How can I start a successful career in IT?


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My age is 30.I have only a ordinary pass graduation in pure science.I worked for 1yr 1/2 mth in pharma sales but I want to switch track to IT as I prefer in-office decent job.
What can i do to earn a living in IT(web development)?
Will learning php help me get me a job?
I dont have money to learn ERP/SAP from ordinary institutes in calcutta.Also most of them assure,dont give a career/job.

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One Response to “How can I start a successful career in IT?”

  1. wei528 Says:

    When I was 13, I got my first computer from my parents, and I was so interested in computer programming, because I really wonder how those computer games were made.
    I started to study computer programming at that time by myself, and I didn’t understand a word in the programming books, but I just kept reading it… Until one day, I suddenly realized that I totally got it… (by the way, I was learning PASCAL at that time)… then I also learnt C by myself and I beat all the adults in a progamming contest, and I was only 14.
    I kind of stopped further programming learning afterwards due to school work and when I was in college, I was called “invisible man” because I never went to classes and I just played around for 4 full years. Due to some incidents, I applied to gradute school in computer science and got approved, and I was called “the man” because I could help programming homeworks for my classmates… The graudate degree was so easy for me to finish…
    Then of course, I started my career as a computer programmer, and now it has been over 8 years and I am leading a software team… I’ve been earning quite well due to the nature of programming jobs and the point is that I only devoted 10% of my time to the work and I still got appraisal from my bosses… I always wonder what if I devote 100%? But I won’t, because I have other interest to pursue and soon I will change my career path.

    Hope my story answered your question…

    Be a nerd in one of the programming languages, and you will be just fine!

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