Re: degree requirement / employment / careers

>  I guess that it really comes down to the reason a person went to another
>  company.  It is much more preferable to go to another company for an
>  opportunity to do something new that to leave a company to get out of a bad
>  situation.  Some folks like steady, routine work.  Others like variety,
>  newness.  Neither is good or bad, but you have to slot them for the correct
>  position.

Aside from these realities, there is also the size of the MIS staff & the 
degree of freedom for individual members of that staff.

I have worked in the large staff where I get stuck with pretty much one area 
in which I specialize & am considered to be the company expert in that stuff 
but I hated it.

Most of my career I have worked in the small staff where I get to do all the 
different kinds of MIS jobs there are ... programming & operations & security 
& hardware (I am not too keen on hardware any more) ... in the programming 
area, I work on all the different applications & all the different kinds of 
interfaces.

Some of it is mundane mucking with the same old program to add some new 
feature to it & some of it is brand new programming something we never did 
before.  I tend to believe that I have more freedom to enter new areas when I 
am the only person doing the programming for a company, than if I was one cog 
in a big wheel of many programmers.

There is the problem of the company not willing to get us the tools we think 
we need to be proficient, but I have found that problem at both small & large 
shops.

Al Macintyre  ©¿©
http://www.cen-elec.com MIS Manager Programmer & Computer Janitor
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