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How can I start a successful career in IT?
My age is 30.I have only a ordinary pass graduation in pure science.I worked for 1yr 1/2 mth in pharma sales but I want to switch track to IT as I prefer in-office decent job. What can i do to earn a living in IT(web development)? Will learning php help me get me a job? I dont have money to learn ERP/SAP from ordinary institutes in calcutta.Also most of them assure,dont give a career/job.
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- When I was 13, I got my first computer from my parents, and I was so interested in computer programming, because I really wonder how those computer games were made. I started to study computer programming at that time by myself, and I didn't understand a word in the programming books, but I just kept reading it... Until one day, I suddenly realized that I totally got it... (by the way, I was learning PASCAL at that time)... then I also learnt C by myself and I beat all the adults in a progamming contest, and I was only 14. I kind of stopped further programming learning afterwards due to school work and when I was in college, I was called "invisible man" because I never went to classes and I just played around for 4 full years. Due to some incidents, I applied to gradute school in computer science and got approved, and I was called "the man" because I could help programming homeworks for my classmates... The graudate degree was so easy for me to finish... Then of course, I started my career as a computer programmer, and now it has been over 8 years and I am leading a software team... I've been earning quite well due to the nature of programming jobs and the point is that I only devoted 10% of my time to the work and I still got appraisal from my bosses... I always wonder what if I devote 100%? But I won't, because I have other interest to pursue and soon I will change my career path. Hope my story answered your question... Be a nerd in one of the programming languages, and you will be just fine!
