Comments on: How can I start a successful career in IT? http://www.resumebutler.com/blog/how-can-i-start-a-successful-career-in-it/ Career and Job Advice Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:49:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: wei528 http://www.resumebutler.com/blog/how-can-i-start-a-successful-career-in-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2199 wei528 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:52:27 +0000 http://www.resumebutler.com/blog/how-can-i-start-a-successful-career-in-it/#comment-2199 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! 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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