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Money as I said before isn't great but it is an easy way to get your foot in the door as you often don't need specific qualifications. Depending on what you are supporting the hours can vary if you are supporting the general public you'd probably need to work a shift pattern which includes evenings and weekends but i expect you are used to that working in retail.

Everything else depends on the company, i worked for helpdesks for 3 different companies and they were all completely different.

Have a look on here

http://www.cwjobs.co.uk/JobSearch/Re...&clName=London

Re: Help me I need a change in career/industry
 

Thanks mate much help will look into all that,hours dont bother me,the people do

Re: Help me I need a change in career/industry
 

Why do all suggestions of IT jobs always lead to the helpdesk lol - e.g. no coder is going to be going that route?

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No coder?

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Yes. No coder.

I'm a coder... a front end web developer to be precise. Which means I've mainly got my head stuck in HTML, CSS and JS. Though I do work with PHP, SQL, Classic ASP (unfortunately) and ASP.NET regularly. Also know my way around Photoshop/Fireworks as use them daily for translating visuals into functional templates ready to plug in the code from the backend developers. I'm basically a middle man! Without me neither design nor function would come together well.

I don't have any formal qualifications which enable me to do my job. Business studies and geography don't exactly help!

I got into it as a hobby first, basically how was that site put together etc. Progressed, did bits of freelance work, got full time job as a junior developer, became a normal developer soon after. Been at the same company for a little over 3 years and am earning a decent wage for my age. Nothing special but more than I need.

Could earn more but I'm happy where I am, I don't have many responsibilities as such and I'm more than fine with the lack of them. I have plenty of time to move higher up but right now I have a stable 8.30-5.00 Mon-Fri where I don't have to think about work outside of those hours, perfect for me.

That's longer than I expected to write!

What type of IT are you looking to get into? Programming web applications, or going to install a new router at a customers house for an ISP, or answering a phone telling people to switch off the broken hardware and back on again to solve the issue?

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Probably the latter as I had no idea what you were talking about before that

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Oh, not sure if you misunderstood what I said or was arguing against it :D either way all I was saying was that helpdesk experience generally isn't any good to someone who wants to code...

I was more commenting on the fact that every time I've seen 'IT jobs - what's it all about, how do I get into it?' come up on the forum, it always seems to be 'helpdesk job' that's the majority answer. Even though that is just one area of 'IT'.