When I woke up in the morning, I said ”I want IT”

Although the title can look like a joke, it can be true for a lot of people who had once a career and they’ve decided to switch it to IT field.

IT guys are loved and hated in the same way.

There was a time when everybody wanted to be an engineer or an economist, a doctor or a lawyer. Now, everybody wants to be an IT specialist – they are now the ”princess” from the market.

Maybe we want to be like them because they are well paid and they have a lot of benefits on their companies. We know that there are a lot of IT companies in the market, most of them with international projects.

But there are also some things good to know before you change your career into IT:

• It is an area that you have to like it for sure. It is a hard job and if you don’t like it, you can’t be performant in this area. You will be one between thousands of specialists in the same field.
• You can’t start it from anywhere. You have to do a faculty or some strong qualification courses in this area. And you have to work a lot on this until you will be a good specialist.
• An IT company is like a company from any other domain, with all its good and bad things. It is not good by default just because it is IT. It is managed by people and people can take good or bad decisions like in every domain.
• There are a lot of IT jobs in the market, but not all of them are for junior level. So take into consideration also an internship to start your IT career.
• It is a very dynamic domain. You have to learn day by day new technologies or to adapt to new type of projects. Dinosaurs disappeared a long time ago :)

It can be a moment when you realize that you are bored with your job and it is normal to want to make a change. But you can try to make it step by step and to build your next job on what you already know. When you start from zero a new career, you have to assume some risks. These can cost you time, money or some insecurity related to your future job.

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