A career in I.T.

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  1. act

    acton_red Active Member

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    which lucrative field should I get into then? nt
     
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    imported_Gally New Member

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    RE: which lucrative field should I get into then? nt

    It's too late for you. You will have to slum it in Telecoms. :) Can't you get some lucrative contract rolling out HSDPA ?
     
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    yes in the far east, middle east or africa

    HSDPA is already passed, its now HSPA then LTE and maybe WIMAX along side
     
    acton_red, Jan 9, 2008
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    you would struggle to get 1/3 of that in telecomms

    Even me :)
     
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    acton_red Active Member

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    what you doing in mobile telecomms? nt
     
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    Cambridge Red Well-Known Member

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    Cambridge Red, Jan 9, 2008
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    Depends on what aspect of telecoms

    Billing systems work pays quite nicely, I'm told.
     
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    O.W.T. New Member

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    Nope there is a shortage again.... nt
     
    O.W.T., Jan 9, 2008
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    acton_red Active Member

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    True. i am talking telecoms telecoms rather than IT telecoms nt
     
    acton_red, Jan 9, 2008
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    budmustang Well-Known Member

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    I don't know if I could hack all this...

    training and retraining that goes on. Thar allus out of date in the IT game. You'd just get good at summert and then it would be obsolete.
     
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    Just be a Consultant...

    do the same thing over and over again for different clients....!
     
    O.W.T., Jan 9, 2008
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    E.I. Addio Well-Known Member

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    Lend me your watch and I'll sell you the time

    The consultants creed.

    That and "Fleece 'em till their eyes pop out"
     
    E.I. Addio, Jan 9, 2008
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  13. Gue

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    RE: what you doing in mobile telecomms? nt

    i work for a partner of Ericsson on pre-paid & billing systems... i design, support & do performance/capacity/security analyses of hardware, o/s, dbms & database. Nice cos all our customers are abroad so loadsa foreign travel to all sorts of places
     
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  14. Gue

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    RE: Depends on what aspect of telecoms

    Telecoms IT work is pretty lucrative, although there's the inconvenience of (paid) 24-hour oncall to consider, etc. Not as life-sucking as financial markets IT, and only slightly lower rates. I earn more in my permie role in London than i did when contracting in Yorkshire & Bedfordshire, plus i work from home 3-4 days per week (bustin)
     
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  15. Gue

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    RE: yes in the far east, middle east or africa

    goes without saying that far east is best of those options... i've worked in Lagos a few times and many major cities in the middle east. Only Beirut and Istanbul were any good
     
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  16. Gue

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    RE: Consultancy not all its cracked up to be

    After doing almost exactly the same thing at a number of client sites, coming up against the same obstacles, knowing which problems will never get sorted out... not good for yer sanity (banghead)

    In a lot of cases consultants wouldn't be needed if internal politics didn't prevent people in-house from doing what they know is needed
     
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    CSC

    I work for ericsson myself. In sweden mainly at the moment though responsible for global network design services
     
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    you in london now then?

    Fancy meeting up for the QPR game? should be a fair few london barnsley fans meeting up
     
    acton_red, Jan 9, 2008
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  19. Gue

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    RE: you in london now then?

    Sounds good for other london fixtures e.g. watford/palace... as long as i have a weekly rail season ticket. Can't do the QPR game tho as i'll be away.

    Bumped into a lad from my old primary school for reds game at palace a few years back... this was surprising cos our school was in the east riding (yep i'm an imported red)
     
    Guest, Jan 10, 2008
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  20. Gue

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    RE: CSC

    Are you out in kista ("sheesta") then? Worked there a few times as we're a partner of ericsson prepaid, and i've worked at Tele2 there.

    I work for LogicaCMG, aka WM-data, aka Atos Origin, aka Schumberger, aka SchlumbergerSema, aka Sema UK, aka Sema Group. Looking back we've had a few takeovers in the last 7 years :)
     
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