Most of those openings are expected to result from the need to replace workers who transfer to different occupations or exit the labor force, such as to retire. Explore resources for employment and wages by state and area for computer network architects. Compare the job duties, education, job growth, and pay of computer network architects with similar occupations. These networks range from small connections between two offices to next-generation networking capabilities such as a cloud infrastructure that serves multiple customers.
Computer network architects, or network engineers , design and deploy computer and information networks. After deployment, they also may manage the networks and troubleshoot any issues as they arise. Network architects also predict future network needs by analyzing current data traffic and estimating how growth will affect the network.
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Analytical skills. Computer network architects have to examine data networks and decide how to best connect the networks based on the needs and resources of the organization. Detail oriented. Computer network architects create comprehensive plans of the networks they are creating with precise information describing how the network parts will work together.
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There is something about being able to decompose a technical problem into its constituent parts and then generating solutions for each of those parts that is simply beyond the capacity of the vast majority of people.
I'm not saying they're stupid--brilliant poets are brilliant regardless of whether they have the capacity to learn C in any meaningful way. I am saying that there is some mental capacity that is not universal, and that people without that capacity are literally untrainable in the craft of creating software. The second core fact about programming as a career is that software creates its own demand. If you have one system and you write a second system, then in addition to all of the from-scratch systems that you could write, you also have the option of writing a system that integrates the first two.
The mere existence of software increases the number of potential projects that exist, and it does so on a super-exponential curve.
Most of those possible systems aren't actually useful, so they're never developed, but the number of useful possible systems also is increasing at an accelerating rate. Now apply these two core facts to the current labor situation. We've created so much demand for software in the Western world through our ever-increasing automation of an ever-increasing number of our activities that we can no longer satisfy the internal demand of our economy for persons able and willing to create software.
We've already hired everybody who wants to be a coder and is able to produce usable code, but we still are demanding more and more software from them. Our own population is insufficient to meet our needs, so now we're skimming the cream of everybody else's crop. Unfortunately, even India and China don't have an infinite number of citizens who can actually create useful systems. As we send more and more work their way we're pumping the oil field of software talent dry. Not only that, but the better jobs and higher wages relative to their home economies that third-world programmers enjoy reinforce most of these trends.
By making more they consume and invest more. This steadily pushes up the demand for middle-class and luxury goods in their home societies. But what does that really mean? Software creates its own demand, and not everybody can create software. What happens when the Indians and Chinese are using all of their programmers for their own economies is anybody's guess. The fact that someday they will be seems pretty solid. Parent Share twitter facebook Entire IT industry Score: 3 , Insightful by nurb writes: on Tuesday September 11, PM Homepage Journal Is slowly dying due to its own success in automation, and making hardware nearly disposable.
As things improve each generation, and reduce the need for support people, the jobs get fewer and fewer. Only a handfull of people will be needed at the end of all this. A lot like toaster support.
Provided that you know how to re-install Windows and remove the most obvious and annoying viruses you'll do fine. I see plenty of jobs. At least once a year someone asks me if I'm available I'm not or whether I know of someone good looking for work I don't. As with almost any profession, if you are very good at what you do then you won't have any problem finding work.
If you are merely "good" or worse then you'll have trouble if the field isn't "hot" at the time. So, you have to ask yourself, "Am I merely good, or am I very good or even better? If you really enjoy programming, are really bothered when something doesn't work, are really driven to find an explanation for the "strange" behavior you are seeing, then you probably have what it takes. If software engineering is just some major that you're ok at that you think will pay well then it probably won't in fact pay well for you and probably isn't the right thing for you.
Good luck. And I really have no patience for lectures on how arrogant my saying this is. You had people becoming "programmers" after a months courses Asking these people, what bit [wikipedia. Many of the better ones got promoted too high as well a problem in many other professions in America due to its low unemployment today, BTW.
The real professionals — and those, who really want to become professionals — don't have much to fear Do, what you love to do -- and get to be really good at it, and you'll earn a lot. Easy for you to say. In the space of 3 business days, the employer was able to interview and decide between 3 different people. An hour later, I got the news. I was not picked. I asked the recruiter whether there really was a shortage of people and he gave an emphatic yes.
So I asked, why then was this employer able to get a choice of people in such a short time? If there really was a shortage of people, shouldn't positions stay unfilled for weeks because they can't find anyone?
Shouldn't there have been no competition? He didn't have a direct answer for that, but mentioned he's been trying to fill all kinds of open positions at several companies. Maybe it's "biz speak". To employers, "shortage" really means "we weren't inundated with hundreds of resumes for 1 position". He thought I was crazy when I suggested he get a compiler and learn the language on his own rather than wait for such an event.
Yes, I've known many programmers who refused to learn new things unless the employer paid for them to be "trained" in it. They were also the programmers that the real programmers learned to avoid being on the same team with. SQL is easy. If I was looking for a programming job I'd first ask what they're looking for. Then I'd look at what the wanted ads want.
Then I'd learn it. Then I'd write a lot of code in it. I literally did that for my current job after I did badly during a phone interview, I told them I was rusty and that I won't be in X days and I made sure I wasn't.
I'm a very good programmer Well this is probably your number one problem. You're assuming you're good and likely you're not. Especially by corporate and team based programming standards. Nonetheless since you assume otherwise you blame others for your failures instead of acknowledging the truth and striving to improve yourself.
So, no enjoying a job and being good at it I'm a very good programmer are not enough to get you a job in this country any more. If you can't show other people that you're good then you're not good. End of story. If I was looking for a programming job and I actually enjoyed programming enough then I'd be coding as much OSS in it as possible.
High profile OSS aimed at solving problems that I perceive as being important but not tackled. I'd contribute heavily to well organize and well known projects.
I'd learn and understand not just the languages that are "hot" but the methodologies behind how actual programmers program.
Anyway if you love programming then you program. If the first thing that comes to your head when you see a new problem with no visible solution isn't "well I can code something to do that" then you really don't love programming. I've written two FF extensions and modified a number of others because there was a need for them and no one else wrote them yet. I don't know the district's median. I can't find the figures on-line. First of all, if you read the replies above you will see that a software analyst is not something you can claim on your resume when the ink on your diploma is still wet.
And you won't get the chance to grow into the position because the entry level positions are either not common enough or just a dead end. A more generic outlook is this. Software can be produced in any country, anywhere at all, and the only thing it requires is the competent personnel to execute the project. Now imagine that someone in the world a transnational corporation, for example, which does not care where the job is done needs to develop and write a complex software system to, say, operate a legged underwater spider that is being built to fix underwater fiber cables.
The company will build the hardware, and now it needs to find a software developer a company, of course that can provide at least developers full time, at least 25 senior developers, and a proportional number of managers and other necessary overhead. Given these example conditions, let's see which company will win the bid. A US company will be burdened with high salaries, and at the same time will not be able to provide so many competent developers warm bodies do not count.
Compare to an Indian company which can give you as many workers as you need, at fraction of the cost, and they are all best of the best. A US company would need to have some very tangible advantages to win the bid, but I can't imagine how they can win on costs. Practically the only usable story here is previous experience and the ownership of relevant intellectual property, and good luck if they have it.
But a US newcomer has no chance to win the bid; and even older companies, with experience of underwater and robotic works, will face fierce competition from far more populous countries. In other words, a US worker is overpriced on the global market, and exceptions are rare. Those are the major sectors of US export not counting food products, since they are not relevant to this discussion.
More and more of US technological output is in knowledge only, and software developers are not high enough to qualify as such. Why all this is happening is simple. Humans and societies develop more and more knowledge and skills, and then they get to a plateau - no more intellectual growth.
That's what Europe and the USA reached decades ago. During that time Chinese cast iron at home and shot intellectuals, and in India Hindus and Moslems tried to determine whose god is mightier. Physics of semiconductors and quantum effects in P-N barriers were not on the horizon there.
But now the developing nations advanced, as they should, and they are quickly approaching the same knowledge plateau that US and Europe encountered earlier. That's why they are becoming competitive - their PhDs are just as smart now as any european or american PhD, and there are far more of them, and they charge far less, and the process is only unwinding out of control.
In theory this is true; in practice it is not. Software produced in any country different from the ones where the customers are suffers from substantial communications breakdowns, which leads to all sorts or problems. Language barriers are also a major issue. You are actually confirming my point here: where is the larger market - in the USA or in India?
If I were to write a wordprocessor, or even a web site for Indian audience I'd be insane to contract a US developer. How about a dose of reality. As technology has become exponentially more complex, business people risking companies on delivering it have become exponentially more stupid. And this one simple line of your statement shows why it'. Building software is about communication and change management. Putting 5, miles, 9 time zones and the history of human civilizations language and MOST importantly culture differences on top of your standard business risk is retarded.
Well, that would mean that all those transnational corporations that span the globe just can't possibly exist. A bee can't fly according to the theory. But it does fly in practice! There are indeed cultural differences and time zones i. I, too, have often thought that the people who believe you can sustain an economy on exports of "knowledge only" must be high.
According to them, you have to be a genius programmer if you expect to compete successfully for the slim pickings that are left, there is no job security at all, and the best most can realistically hope for these days is a job at Home Depot.
There have been a couple times that may have been true, most recently when the. That was a dismal time for projects but not now. Business seems pretty healthy righ. So my advice for anyone trying to break in to the programming field would be to work in some other aspect of IT for several years - go be an SA or a network engineer or something and use your programming skills to assist you in those areas. Once you've done that you can transition into development. You'll be a MUCH better developer for it.
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However, from the stories I read from American programmers on the Net, the profession is lost. Is the government wrong, or lying, then, when it implies that software engineers and system analysts can expect to have a good future? As an American, am I a fool if I decide to undertake this for a living? This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Believe the Occupational Outlook Handbook? More Login. Archived Discussion Load All Comments. Full Abbreviated Hidden. Outlook for an Occupying Force Score: 5 , Funny. I wouldn't have guessed that Outlook would function any different for US troops in Iraq, but I guess it must, since they have a whole handbook for it. Share twitter facebook. Re: Score: 3 , Funny. Personally, I don't believe a word Microsoft publishes. You can't get there from here. Score: 5 , Insightful.
I believe it, but you can't get there from here. You need to know some demographics to understand why, in the era, the first will be in demand- it's because the first generation of Software Engineers and Analysts and Project Managers are all Baby Boomers.
Which leads to my question to prompt discussion: just how the hell do you become a software engineer without being a programmer first, unless you're independently wealthy enough to work in Open Source for years?
One potential answer is government instead of private industry- I'm a software engineer with 10 years of experience and that's where I ended up after the last recession because I simply didn't have enough experience in enough languages to get a private industry job. But beyond that- I just don't see any way for a young person graduating from high school to become a software engineer anymore.
Sure, you can probably get the 4 years of schooling. Re: Score: 2 , Insightful. Re:You can't get there from here. Score: 5 , Interesting. For years I myself pondered what to do with my career, or perhaps lack thereof. I never finished my degree, and I knew that hurt and would continue to hurt for the rest of my life unless I finished it. I've worked just about every IT job there is since - starting as a programmer analyst. If I tried to go over the laundry list of languages, OS environments, and software I'm either very familiar with or sometimes even had a hand in developing -- I'd probably forget a dozen or more between them - maybe more.
A couple of years ago I gave up on finding stable work - and took up private consulting. Being something of a jack-of-all-trades, I didn't have any problems finding work. It was not until then that I fully realized what was happening with IT. To me, I had just seen jobs going overseas without realizing the full scope of how it effected IT as an industry.
Being a consultant, you're something of a throw-away employee. No major overhead, no accounting headaches, no benefits to deal with, just cuts it plain and simple - not to mention the best part - they can fire you just because, with no consequences.
In reality, that is what the general IT industry has become as a whole. An industry of throw-away employees. One where most employers expect you to know exactly what they need. Specific OS, language, and development environments. If a company is looking to downsize, IT is almost always the first place they look, and the department hit the hardest. I made the decision about 5 months ago that I was going back to school, I was going to finish a degree - but it was not going to be a CS degree.
The industry, in my opinion, is completely lost. Even on the administration side. Don't get me wrong, there are jobs to be had - but the pay very rarely fits the level of responsibility and knowledge required. Transportation Logistics Engineer, to be more specific. How I manage to always get jobs I have no specific education in is beyond me, but I considered myself saved and I really don't care why. Most of the people at the company stay there for their entire working careers - getting a position there with no degree in the specific field they were seeking had never even crossed my mind.
But, I digress I've worked in IT for 10 years. I've seen it all, from being the solo network admin at a small company to being lead developer on projects for some of the largest corporations in the world.
I turned away from the industry and I will never look back for anything more than a hobby. Even today, I am still getting calls from people I had consulted with desperate for me to schedule in some time for them - offering weekend and evening work if I would come fix or support key systems they don't want to pay an employee to maintain.
If a friend asked me if they should consider a degree or career in IT, I would not hesitate to warn them of the instability, irregular hours, low pay for skill and responsibility, lack of a future, and in general the bad past experiences I have had. Things like not seeing my son for more than a couple hours a month for the first three years of his life, due to work.
Or the many times I found myself not going home or sleeping for days on end. It sounds like a nightmare and people wonder how such things could honestly happen, but there is an entire industry of just that - it's called IT, and I'm proud to say I'm not a part of it anymore. That's just me, though. Some people like that, I suppose. Parent Share twitter facebook. Re: Score: 3 , Interesting.
Re: Score: 3 , Insightful. The company I just started for layed off 15 people from the IT department the first week I was there. Yesterday we had a meeting discussing next years budget, and where cuts would be made - I'll give you one guess what department was mentioned first Ignorance is bliss, and if you've got a good job in IT it's easy to be blissful.
You should be thankful you have one of those jobs, not berate others who do not. Re: Score: 3 , Informative. Re: Score: 2. Beyond that -- some people have an innate proficiency for seeing a process and knowing the right algorithm or approach to use to address it. Those people have a lower barrier to entry by their nature. I've never failed to hire anyone for not having "enough experience in enough languages"; one of the best experien.
Working with any language for about 2 weeks, any programmer worth their salary there are a lot that aren't could learn just about any language.
Unless you are stepping way outside any paradigm you've ever worked in, say, programming in prolog, when you've never done Object Oriented programming, or programming parallel algorithms when you've only ever done single threaded programming, then learning a new language, like moving from C to Java doesn't take much training at all. It will take the programmer m. As a manager at a software development firm, I laugh at what you're saying. We've interviewed several of these people, unfortunately.
They're essentially useless, even as programmers. Some of these dipshits, err, "expert C developers" couldn't even explain the basic concepts behind a linked list implemented in C. One notable Indian-trained fellow we interviewed told us all about arrays when asked to describe a linked list. When we asked him to elaborate on where the linking comes into play, he told us that "the addresses of the memory cells were linked by virtual memory". The developer I was interviewing this fellow with was also of Indian descent, but trained in France.
He told the candidate flat out, "Sandeep, you are a disgrace to the people of India! Some of them run into major problems just getting simple code to compile. In the end, they waste the time of our better developers with stupid, near-pointless questions. Information on this site allows projected employment growth for an occupation to be compared among states or to be compared within one state.
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