IT Myths Every Newbie Faces

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Geniuses are everywhere, but this does not mean an entry threshold. Not only your former classmate, an excellent student, whose math test you copied, can become a successful programmer.

And yet this stereotype exists. It holds back many guys before discovering a new profession. They think that they can’t handle it, that it’s not for humanities students, that they will lose out to

You can read the success stories of our guys here - from teaching, sales, working in a museum and forensic examination to the desired career in IT.

At least seven checkered shirts in the wardrobe and preferably glasses

Appearance is an example of a signification criterion, by which sociologists (and others) identify and separate various social groups and subcultures. You can remember the 2000s, black and pink colors social media marketing service in clothes, makeup, bangs that cover half the face of young people - here you need to stand out to be
By the way, signification also implies slang, which we can really see among IT specialists. Sharing, checking, approving, backing up and other words do not cause any demons - they just came from English words. Like the Zoomer "crash" or "shaming".


Now you are on "you" with any technology

. Explaining to your grandmother what you do for work is a real quest. And if the designer ends up drawing pictures, managing the project for others, and selecting HR personnel, then it will be most difficult for programmers or system administrators to describe what they do for 8-10 hours (or even more) on their computers.

Big salary

This stereotype is more objective. Especially if you compare it to the average salary in the country. However, everything is also conditional here.

Even a foreign language teacher can earn several thousand dollars a month - by creating his own course, for example. But to do this, he will have to go beyond his professional boundaries, build a personal brand, design a product - in general, many things that may be beyond a person's strength or not in his interests. And a programmer grows on an already formed career ladder.

Interest and hard work are important in any profession, without which there will be no growth. Juniors will not earn $ 35 per hour - as well as specialists with experience, but without knowledge of English. Choose your
One of the most important soft skills that your employers will definitely pay attention to is the ability to work in a team. And for this you need to communicate. A lot. With different departments, colleagues, and possibly with clients. And the number of corporate events, intellectual games, active pastime in IT companies will be the envy of any other company... HR departments try very hard for their employees.

But if you are really an introvert and get tired of a lot of communication, no one will stop you from spending all your time programming!

IT is almost like modeling, after 25 you are no longer in demand

We learn all our lives. In any case, how to do it, if we want. And you can encounter ageism (as well as sexism, racism and other biases) anywhere and anytime.

Perhaps you will not drop out of university in the 3rd year to develop your own project. But Amancio Gaona opened his first shop at 39, because the customer cancelled a large batch of underwear that he and his wife had managed to sew. This shop was called Zobra, but a little later they had to rename it Zara due to difficulties with registration.