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Would You Recommend Your Kid Go Into IT?
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An IT career can be a rewarding choice, especially if you learn your way around the business side of the technology industry. For anyone considering a future career in technology, there are certain questions to ask yourself, such as what part of IT you're most interested in, and what type of career you're looking for. You can then find the relevant career opportunities. There are certain IT growth areas, such as cyber-security and big data, which have enormous potential for future growth. With that as backdrop, the article outlines the decision-making process for considering a career in IT.
Being a developer can be highly creative work, and with widespread adoption of agile development, you interact a lot with the business side, which can be good for job security. Developers will be the big winners in the cloud era: when development and test infrastructure can be provisioned in a flash, there will be more and better apps, which will in turn increase demand.
Being a security professional is also an area that will certainly never go away. You just have to prepare yourself for a career imagining everything that can go wrong and staying one step ahead of cyber criminals' cleverest ideas. You have to be patient and tough-minded.
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