Internet Oracle.

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Selected-By: "Tim Chew" <twchew@mindspring.com>

The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:

Will I *ever* get an IT job?

Is that what you really want?

Are you tired of your sales position where you make your own hours?
Eat lunch on the company dime?
Travel to six cities in one year?
Have a company car?
Work approximately 25 hours a week?
Get bonuses just for increasing sales 2% in a three month period by going over sales budget 200%?
Get paid for training and drinking everynight during the training?

Or get a 2K raise so you can:
Work 40-60 hours a week.
Answer phone calls involving screen color changes that take 20 minutes to accomplish.
Run and listen to a Computer Moron boss who just got the last computer Magazine and wants to know "Can we do THIS, WHY aren't WE doing this?".
Always tied to a pager/cell-phone so your computer systems or the NOC can wake you up or ruin a perfectly good night on the town.
Get the same lame 4% raises every year while having a learning curve the size of the Washington Monument because everything changes every three months.
Deal with expensive poorly built Tape Backup systems and their Kludgy, User-UNfriendly program interfaces.
Develop neck problems, schrunched up shoulders, and always tight hands.
Field stupid questions from people like "I got a real quick question, How do I upgrade my system?" or "What computer should I get?" which is like asking "What vehicle should I get?"

Wait...

Something just came in.

Yes, that last update of your resume on monster paid off. You just got an IT job. CONGRATULATIONS.

Now give up any thought of ever having a real life again.

You owe the Oracle a long, long, long vacation from his IT job.