Albert Einstein said "Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.". I feel the same about IT. Being myself an IT professional I really feel Im not into a life that I wanted when I got into this field. I agree there are a lot of truly satisfied people in this sector who scream that they love their job. But you show me one such person Ill show u 100 people who don't. To be honest it could have been a great job, if I dealt with what it stands for, finding new innovative ways to create, store transfer and do etc etc with Information. But unfortunately most of the jobs that we have in the industry today either deal with creating website, maintaining servers or customer support and I swear these things do get boring after some time.
Well you might say its my fault I got in this field, thats true and I dont want others to do the same mistake, so I have desided I will today take a giant step and save the next generation by writing this blog.
Reasons to avoid IT industry.
- Its not challenging as people assume it to be, infact its very monotonous.
- After spening 2-3 years in it. You hardly get an opputunity to learn any thing new. You have to continue doing what you have been doing.(I agree the 2 points are very similar.. never mind)
- You leave for work early along with the whole other working community but there is no guarantee when you will get back.
- You sit in a cubical whole day, looking at a box. Your perception of nature is wallpaper.
- You'll never come to know how hard its raining outside or how cold the temperature is For you weather is always 25 degrees celcius
- Socialising becomes online chatrooms and blogs are the only place to vent out frustrations.(The social life sucks)
- It gets tough to fall in love. Women may love showing you off as a friend but nobody actually wants to date you.
- The worst part is nobody actually beleives that you are working hard, for them you are sitting in an air conditioned office whole day.
- The more you get promoted the more the life sucks.
- Last but not the least there are hardly any beautiful women in this sector (unlike the general perception).