Quote:
Originally Posted by oldbird
Public sector seldom if ever consider graduates for general admin positions, especially those of engineering/IT background. They usually do not have the general admin experience.
|
What are you talking about? Most ministry level jobs are administrative and paper writing in nature. So many of such jobs in carres.gov and you cannot even find one which is repetitive, stable enough for you?
Quote:
I am listing down the pros and cons as I see it. Just to see if this is indeed the typical case as experienced by other IT professionals. I wish to set my expectations right.
I pointed out that IT operations can be quite OK if the system/SOP are stable and I do not object to working on weekends/off office hours, as long as the number of working hours do not go crazy. Not that it is all bad, and IT development is all good.
|
The problem with this sort of mentality is most experienced workers will tell you, its your boss and colleagues and company culture that makes the difference. It isn't about whether you are ops or development. You can't make sweeping statements on the characteristic of 1 department vs another.
Quote:
Btw, it appears that you have some virulent hatred for foreigners for whatever reason. Every reply of yours, you have to bring them in. Did they put you out of job or got you fired? 
|
It is not about virulent hatred, your lack of experience is showing that you don't seem to understand the situation in the IT field. It is by far the industry with the highest number of foreigners, that's a fact and nothing to do with personal hatred.
These foreigners are mainly from India and Philippines and most of them have post graduate masters or PHD (credible or not is another story). If you want stable standard work, this will by definition mean some sort of service centre, helpdesk support or process outsourcing work. You will be crushed by them in no time because 1) you are the minority in office 2) they are cheaper 3) they have better paper qualifications 4) they are mobile and can easily relocate to a cheaper country
As a local if you want to do well in IT, you have to either move into large scale enterprise project management, business partnering, niche specialist or engineering sales/BD. These are definitely not the places that you can expect to sit back, relax one corner, work life balance and go through motion doing repetitive process everyday.
In summary, either buck up and change your attitude or go find general work in a stable organization. Don't be an idiot who gets retrenched at 30 years old due to lack of competitiveness and ironically becoming the one with "virulent hatred" for foreigners.