career alternatives for the IT minded 4

[drago762]

Most of us gravitated to IT partly because of our 'wiring.' Without getting into male/female or left-brain/right-brain or emotional/logical debates, many of us are just plain different from the rest of the world. Logically, then, there are non-IT careers out there to which we may be constitutionally better suited than others.

Consulting, for one's own business or another's, is a perennial alternative to the daily IT-shop grind. My goal for this thread is to gather into one place some ideas for those who have found, or who are seeking, or who are just curious about, career alternatives.

What else have you found or do you know of or do you think may be well-suited to the IT-minded? Why and how?

 

[flapeyre]

What do you accomplish by criticizing my methods? How does it help to attack things that I am trying?

Q: How does manipulation help anything?
A: It doesn't. Suck up to the wrong person, and you'll choke on them.

I have seen many of these common-sense approaches fail. As a result, I came to the realization that they aren't enough.[/quote]

Maybe you need to put in some more effort.


Feles mala! Cur cista non uteris? Stramentum novum in ea posui!

 

[dkediger]

"oh and, I think the medical industry is going very technical and pays very well, you might need some schooling before the switch, but it is an emerging technology sector"

The avg pay for health information tech is only $25 K per year.

http://www.bls.gov/oco/pdf/ocos103.pdf

An HIT is an industry specific term and is basically a recordkeeper/billing coder with specific training in CPT/DSM/Medicare practices and the billing workflow. They'll also have specific training on med records, but would not normally have any influence on the IT processes behind the scenes.

That said, the guts of those billing processes is seeing a lot of IT attention as well as point-of-use applied technology.

 

[Sheco]

It would be nice to be a farmer... maybe a farmer and a distiller. Plant and harvest the grain... them make it into booze. Yes. That sounds very pleasant. Pay the farm workers with booze.

 

[BocaBurger]

grow corn and make it into both biodiesel and alcohol, and you could have a good business.



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