For the industry reasons and economic conditions, more and more IT practitioners left the IT industry, they found new careers to repay mortgage.
From Java to Tea
Jessie Jacobs was a successful business analyst and user interface designer. During a large wireless platform company, he has made usability test and interface design for many wealth of 500 companies. He likes the kind of "wild technology-centric feeling."
In a business trip, Jacobs suddenly turned in the hotel. He said: "In the rain in February, I will make up my mind, I don't want to go anymore." He gave up the rich salary. With the stock option, it will invest in many years of business analysis skills and research capabilities into new occupations.
"In the technical industry, you built a large system, but you don't actually do it." Jacobs said. He hopes to truly experience his work, can engage in some fine, elegant careers. All along, Jacobs adheres to healthy life and likes to drink tea. He feels that the tea industry will be the beginning of the new life.
Jacobs rely on previous technical expertise to conduct case studies, and opened a Samovar tea room in San Francisco in 2003. Previous technical methods even cause Jacobs to archive the entire process and each detail of the tea room "user interface" and hope to get a franchise right.
Today, the Samovar tea room has stable income and grow steadily. In addition to promoting the concept of relaxation, the tea room also provides Wi-Fi access services from 9 am to 12 noon every day. This technology features make the tea room in the industrial depression.
Technicians often change from office staff to entrepreneurs. Human Resources Expert Roberta Chinsky Mauson said: "Those who like a rapidly changing environment, and I don't know what the next step should be expected to have the nature of seeking, and it is easy to change the career, especially will become entrepreneurs."
Many technicians will be tired of technology. Mauson believes that this is also natural. She said: "When you no longer feel happy with technical work, you should change your work." She stressed that people who changed their work were initially The company's work is attracted and very popular in technology. But it has gradually lost interest.
From Perl to Pearl
Yvonne Shortt has been programming experience in C and Java, and is a financial company management website group such as JP Morgan. She has lived at a typical technician - the salaries are rich, and the work is heavy.
When visiting a friend, Shortt saw this on the wall: "Those resumes are more unemployed than me, doctoral, MBA, etc., are unemployed!"
Later, when Shortt was pregnant, she began to do jewelry to help you fall asleep. Then she decided to convert this hobby to business. She realized that she lacked sales and marketing skills and felt that if they can learn marketing skills in business, they can gradually become suitable for marketing.
Since the raw materials of the jewelery are sterling silver, not a precious jewelry or pure gold, her jewelry business only needs a small investment. She also designs, produces products. When Waddevah, Waddevah in New York, her risk analysis skills sent a field.
With the experience of making websites, she carefully manages the company's website, which is also the main sales channel. Shortt said she has been calculating and tracking sales, deciding to charge according to click rate or by keyword, and manage direct mail and print advertisements. She also manages other workers responsible for manufacturing.
New business makes Shortt to take care of children during the day, then put a lot of time in the evening.
Jacobs and Shortt know when to go forward, but this decision is not easy. Karyl Innis is the CEO of The Innis. She has found that IT practitioners have many specific skills to help them go to non-technical careers. These skills include the ability to formulate plans, solve problems, pay attention to facts and details, etc. . But they also have some disadvantages, INNIS said: "Many technicians lack soft skills, but in business, one party with the facts is equally important in both sides of the balance." Overall, from the technical industry Individuals apply. People should measure their good evil for themselves. Innis suggests that there is such an idea to draw three circles, a representative skills, a representative interest, and the last representative of the current market. Where the three circles intersect is a place where new work or new occupations may exist.
Innis said: "People leave the specific people, not the company." But our mistakes we often mention that when you talk about it, it is often mentioned by leaving this profession rather than a specific situation. Sometimes it may be what we need. "If you are really good at technology, don't leave this profession." Innis recommended
