What is the best position in the Information Technology field?

Question

What is the best job in the Information Technology field (programmer, systems analyst/administrator, network administrator, etc.) and why? What is its annual starting salary?

Answer 1

This depends upon your interests:

Programmer: You will most likely start out as a code-monkey. Meaning you will sit more than 8 hours each day in front of a monitor writing code that any idiot could write. When you gain some more experience, you will be able to spend more than 8 hours each day in front of a monitor writing code that nobody else could write. You will always be behind schedule, and there will always be 10 times more work waiting for you when you're done, as well as "meetings" and other stuff taking up your time. You're gonna love lunch break as the only social opportunity during the day.

Systems analyst/administrator: You will spend most of the time dealing with clueless customers, clueless programmers, and clueless company executives, each with their own agenda. Your job is to make them understand each other (or at least for you to understand them all, and make yourself understood to all of them). For the right person, this can be a fun combination of technical and managerial skills. It is also well paid. It also usually requires some experience. Companies hiring systems analysts/administrators right from the university probably have no idea what they're doing.

Network administrator: Either you are good at your job, in which case there is nothing to do, and you must fake it so you look busy. Or you are completely inept, and always have a lot of work to do that never goes away. The few times you meet other people, they'll be angry at you for things not working. 8 out of 10 network administrator hate their job so much they have deliberately sabotaged their own company networks at times.

Annual starting salary is dependent upon a lot of things, such as geographical location, level of education, being married to the CEO's daugher, etc... But if you have a degree, you will get reasonable pay in the IT field.

Answer 2

Systems Architect--Interoperability.

This, of course, is my profession. It is the absolute best job because there are few practitioners, the pay is fantastic, and you get to work with people at all levels in several organizations, not just your own, and you get to design systems that work to link information between businesses, governments, and individuals.

Whether designing web portals for ebusiness applications, funds transfer systems using ATMs or the ACH, vendor-managed inventory systems or order-to-cash designs, you get to map out how everything works, and everyone else has to work within the parameters you set.

To do this, you must be conversant in several types of data and systems standards, from X12 (operated by DISA.org), to EDIFACT, to ebXML. You also must be proficient in several translation and conversion software packages, and if you want to work at the highest levels, you must be able to combine, mix and match, augment, and recommend these applications as needed.

This type of work provides so much benefit to all parties that it leaves all types of application programming, networking and analysis behind.

Starting salaries range from $130,000 to $150,000.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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