IT Careers: The Best and Worst Choices

The amount of IT jobs is very huge, so there several options for a person that decides to choose an IT career to follow. According to Leslie Stevens-Huffman, in the article "IT Jobs With the Best (and Worst) ROI", despite the strict academic requirements needed to be an IT professional, some jobs don't have good enough salaries to compensate all the academic efforts needed to become a professional in that specific area.

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Among the growing jobs in the IT field, software developer is the first one of a list shown in the article "Best Technology Jobs". Therefore, being a software developer can be very profitable, once the demand of professionals is increasing. Usually, according to the author of said article being in that position offers people two options, the first is to work developing applications, and the second is developing operation systems. Furthermore, as Leslie Stevens-Huffman points out in the article "IT Jobs With the Best (and Worst) ROI", this kind a job is the forth in a list of the best paid jobs, with an average annual salary of $76,774. Also, the degree of difficulty in recruiting people to these jobs is the highest one in the North America. All these factors together suggest that software developer is a good career to follow for those who are interested in the field, and in profiting monetarily from his/her choice.

In the other hand, the job with the lowest growth nowadays, but that still have a considerable growth, is the computer support specialist, i.e, the help desk position. 

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This job has a low entry-level salaries and a poor ROI. According to Leslie Stevens-Huffman, in the article "IT Jobs With the Best (and Worst) ROI", only 29 percent of this kind of specialists have a bachelor's degree, 18 percent have an associate's degree, and 22 percent might have some college, but no degree. Because the investment is higher than the return, this job tend to be a bad choice for a person that is thinking of getting a career in the IT field, once the average annual salary is only $43,210.

Picking a career is a hard task, and in the technology there a lot of options. Together with software developer, the other profitable jobs are database administrator, software engineer, programmer and web developer, that have good returns considering the necessary years of study. However, in addition to looking for good salaries, the satisfaction of the work are you doing is also important, because it will be one of the things that are going to help you being successful.

Sources:

- Unknown Author. (2015). Best Technology Jobs. U.S. News & World Report.
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- Stevens-Huffman, L. (2015). IT Jobs With the Best (and Worst) ROI. Dice.
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