Not sure what kind of job I can get...

Rozie · 14-12-2005 7:54pm #1

I'm currently a Computer systems student in Limerick, and I could well fail the course, and it's not a very useful degree, regardless.

I want to move to Cork and find a job there. Ideally, I'd like to be a secretary, something that involves lots of typing as I can type very fast.(110+ WPM) I'm also very good with graphic design, and I have a lot of various skills, but I may end up with no qualifications.

I worked in Dell for 6 Months, in the IT department doing various odd jobs; as well as some web design. It'd probably help me tons if I wanted to get work in the same area again, but I'm not sure I do.

So what should I be looking for?

optiplexgx270 · 14-12-2005 7:58pm

Need more info really.

"I have a lot of various skills"

Like what?

Repli · 14-12-2005 7:58pm

Are you in final (4th) year? Also every degree is useful imo even if you don't want to work in the field you are studying. You usually automatically earn higher wages in banks/offices/etc with a degree. I did my IT work placement in an engineering company and some of the IT people had engineering degrees but were getting the same if not better wages than everyone else because that particular company had set salary rates for undergraduates, degrees, degree + 1 year, degree + 2 year, etc.. I'm sure Dell have a similar setup?

Heinrich · 14-12-2005 8:00pm

You can just as easily pass! Be positive!

As for your skills, unfortunately employers are keen on that "bit of paper" so persevere.

Good luck in your future career.

Rozie · 14-12-2005 8:15pm

I'm in my 3rd year. It's very difficult on me and I'm not interested in anything much I'm doing.

As for various skills; I dunn oif any of these help;

Graphics design, 3D Modelling(but not animating, that's a bitch to do), Photomanipulation, fast typing, repair(software), digital sound editting/engineering, basic hardware skills, Web Design, software development with IMSI Multimedia Fusion, basic and some advanced some internet/networking skills, basic knowledge of C, C++ and Java.

I'm also a pretty quick learner with more practical things(i.e. nothing we're currently doing in my course), so I could probably pick up more skills quickly if I knew what to look for...

And I don't want to be pressured into having to finish this course because I don't know if I can. I want to know how I can do if I don't get the course.

I'm not really bothered about wages just as long as it's above minimum(I could survive on minimum but I have to save up for something). I just want a job that I'm not miserable in.

I also need to do another two months of work experience to pass my course.

tim3115 · 14-12-2005 8:19pm

Is this the last year of the degree?

Repli · 14-12-2005 8:21pm

Well to be honest without your degree you are pretty much limited to the same jobs available to someone with a Leaving Cert. Would you consider transferring to a more practical IT course?

Rozie · 14-12-2005 8:22pm

Repli wrote:

Well to be honest without your degree you are pretty much limited to the same jobs available to someone with a Leaving Cert. Would you consider transferring to a more practical IT course?

Really don't have the money... my Dad retires in a year or two and I'd probably have to do at least an extra year if I was to transfer. I don't know what I can transfer too, either.

I don't want anything too "Professional" i guess. Even if I got a qualifcation, the kind of work that you'd need qualifications for looks a bit too responsible.

I'd just like a quiet friendly office job that isn't too nazi-ish on my appearance, preferably as a secretary-type job(which don't normally seem to require qualifications).

Repli · 14-12-2005 8:27pm

The DIT computer science degree course is very heavily based around practical work.. regarding fees, if you are doing an ordinary degree, you could transfer to the higher degree and only have to pay the capitation (€775 ~) for the remaining years of the course, the same applies if you are doing a higher degree and transfer to the ordinary degree course. Is this the last year of your degree yeah? I'll be able to tell you more then.

Rozie · 14-12-2005 8:41pm

Repli wrote:

The DIT computer science degree course is very heavily based around practical work.. regarding fees, if you are doing an ordinary degree, you could transfer to the higher degree and only have to pay the capitation (€775 ~) for the remaining years of the course, the same applies if you are doing a higher degree and transfer to the ordinary degree course. Is this the last year of your degree yeah? I'll be able to tell you more then.

No next year is the last year. And the biggest cost is accomodation, especially in Dublin. I don't want to have to go all the way up to dublin.

kjt · 14-12-2005 9:49pm

Repli wrote:

The DIT computer science degree course is very heavily based around practical work.. regarding fees, if you are doing an ordinary degree, you could transfer to the higher degree and only have to pay the capitation (€775 ~) for the remaining years of the course, the same applies if you are doing a higher degree and transfer to the ordinary degree course. Is this the last year of your degree yeah? I'll be able to tell you more then.

Yea believe me, you dont want to do CS in dit... Unless Programming is REALLY your thing. We do fking nothing else ¬!!!!!1238098)Q"*398&Q")(£7!)(2387.

Try do a 1 or 2year fás cert?

Repli · 14-12-2005 9:54pm

lol I'm in 4th year ;P

Rozie · 14-12-2005 10:10pm

FáS cert might be good.

Most of the jobs I've been looking at online aren't about qualifications, but down to "having worked for a year as" and various skills I need to brush up on. Kind of a shame, I would have liked to have gone into a permanent job straight off, I don't like moving around. It's very hard to find the places to work so you can have he "having worked for a year as" too.

optiplexgx270 · 15-12-2005 12:25am

I left Ft228 in '04 and am in a job doing a programming language we never covered in college before. Mad the way things turn out. Turned out it is 90% like java. C# btw.

Kazujo · 18-12-2005 7:52am

There are specific courses for secretarys, and there are also different kinds of secretarys ie. legal, medical, genral... These jobs tend to depend alot on experience so it's a case of getting your foot in the door.

Are you interested in working in IT at all?

I completed the DT266-Ft225 course in DIT back in 2003, had some PC hardware experience too and landed a nice support role.

Have you thought of going for professional certification eg. CCNA, MSCE. You can study for them yourself and the tests only coast bout €150-€200. These are sometimes more valuable than a degree to an employer as they demonstrate a specific skill not a general Degree in Computer Science

cee_jay · 18-12-2005 8:32am

If you are looking for office work, perhaps consider doing MOUS (Word, Excel, Access etc) (or whatever its called) - think the library in UL has all the training material for it.
HSI in Limerick do some sort of secretarial course - if thats what you are consider perhaps look in to that?
FAS do some good courses in Limerick - spent a year there myself when I finished my degree in UL - and it was brilliant - would recommend it to anyone.
Best of luck with whatever you decide to do!

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