Passion vs pay
Posted by Daywalker85@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 14 comments
How many of you always wanted to work in tech vs fell into it? I’ve met lots of people with degrees that didn’t pan out and who built a great career
PrincipleExciting457@reddit
It was a hobby. I needed to grow up and make money. So here I am. Now pretty much only do it for the money.
_BoNgRiPPeR_420@reddit
This exactly. I can't tell you the last time I've turned a PC on after 4:30pm for personal use. Not even for video games, those died off before my first child was born.
QuiteFatty@reddit
Ditto, the work has killed the passion.
Class08@reddit
Christ this hits home - I fell into IT due to it being a hobby and now when I get home I just want things to work.
TabascohFiascoh@reddit
I'd wager IT has more workers who intended to do something else with their lives than any other field.
I know more people in IT that intended on working in another field, than actually have a traditional IT education.
FiftySix_K@reddit
I worked a construction job drilling wells out of high-school.
That was enough for me. I took my passion for breaking the home pc and brute forcing my way in to AOL chat rooms and made it my career.
StarSlayerX@reddit
Hobby building and fixing computers in High School. Got lucky after college landed a Desktop Support Role for a Fortune 1000. Discovered I liked IT and working with business technologies. This grown role after role from Desktop Support, System Administrator, Systems Engineer/Architect, Telecom Engineer, Cloud Solutions Engineer, and now IT Manager for Office 365/Azure engineers.
Any_Particular_Day@reddit
I was a self taught computer nerd in high school, and hated school and dropped out as soon as I could at sixteen. Got a job at a computer dealer. That was almost 40 years ago…
HotMuffin12@reddit
I was shit at everything else at school and this was the only thing I wasn’t shit at. Money is good too.
If I lost my job and couldn’t get another IT job, I have no idea what I’d do.
StuckinSuFu@reddit
Always knew I'd work in some part of IT so my degree was in Classical Studies because it was what I was interested in learning in college.
Glad I made the switch several years ago to the vendor support side instead of sysadmin though. Much better work life balance
ElevenNotes@reddit
I turned my passion into my pay and own business.
981flacht6@reddit
Computers was a hobby for me, I was into them but never thought I'd be in IT at first. I was going down an entirely different career path that didn't pan out. Then I went into IT and kept going. It was some sort of wake up call for me.
lynxss1@reddit
In elementary school we had to write up a resume and a cover letter for a company/job that we wanted to work for when we grew up. The teacher then sent them to the real companies without us knowing that in advance. Some kids got 1 day internships which was pretty cool. I got a generic reply back on company letter head for mine, meh. Still having a letter with the old logo addressed to me is pretty cool though.
30 years later I fell into a job at said company in the niche I always wanted. So yes I am doing the work I always wanted to do as a kid. But no I did not pursue this as a career or even apply for the job as I always felt woefully unqualified and still do after 8 years, imposter syndrome is real.
FarJeweler9798@reddit
I don't know if I always wanted to work in tech but I did only started in tech after 15years of doing something else without any tech degree.
Thou tech is quite broad spectrum as I worked with automation/robots/manufacturing devices so you could also call that tech