I.T. one of the highest paying specializations in the PH

First, let your passion do the work. Kung fresh grad ka, huwag munang maghangad ng malaking sweldo. Experience ang habol natin sa mga unang taon. Kapag napatunayan mo na naman ang sarili mo sa mga boss mo, hindi sila magaatubiling itaas ang sweldo mo.

Same here, 6 figures…

Graduates,your BS diploma will not guarantee you success, it is all up to you to be who you wanted to be.

The only thing that will be useful is on your first job, and in some cases promotion. Internationally they don’t give a sh1t!

@KruxVendetta

Don’t worry buddy. I am not persuading someone on any full-of-shit-networking stuff as I don’t fcking believe them too.

When you truly realize the potential of Internet Marketing Business you’ll like “I wish I haven’t spend my 5 years working on that shitty company with a shitty boss”.

I am just giving advice not to limit yourself. Work on your own, think about where those employers getting clients from, work for them directly.

If you are a web developer. Make your own websites and make money with it. Think bigger make your own company and PHP 1M / day will be yours.

Of course everything is with hard/smart work. When I said “Sit infront of computer” because that’s what you would be doing most of the time.

“Thank of the bigger picture. Don’t limit yourself”

Same with me, nasa ganyang figures sweldo ko ngayon but I started as a contractual IT Tech for almost 2 years with 13k a month then customer absorbed me… Systems Admin, first job was TSR for a call center but I have Social Anxiety, I hated phone calls, now I talk to machines and fix them

It is a matter of choice, any course can be in the field of IT.

They choose to apply in a call center rather than get paid 11k with a better career growth.

I learn from google and youtube, all self study, never had a BS diploma and yet I’m in the IT industry.

You sir know the key to success in IT :D

Continuous learning is what makes you good in IT. Be always one step ahead of the pack, read and learn everything that is new.

Well, technically IT outsourcing startups can actually pay more. The reason companies outsorce their work in the first place is to lessen their expenses. Basically developers in other countries are quite expensive. Now compare their currency to the rate of our peso and our price will seem like the rate of a beginner but with the skills of a senior dev. However some companies I found will, despite the cheaper price, will try to lower your price but will still charge their foreign client a higher amount, Now these are all happening behind close doors so who knows how many are there. But despite that, the good news is I’ve seen a lot more who are willing to pay more for their devs.

What ever your course is, it doesn’t really matter. What you learn in school is just the basics, you need continuous learning to be successful in IT.

If you can tough it out to get your Cisco Certs, mag call center ka muna (tech support) for funds and experience then saka ka mag IT, that’s how I got my current job as a Systems Admin.

Depende n rin siguro yan s skills and capacity mo.

Ako boss baguio area. Starting ko 10 going 11 tpos naghanap ng iba pa2sukan naging 15 ngaun nsa 20k n po ako on my third year as web dev.

Kung tingin mo na ung skills mo is worth more than 15k, ask a raise or better yet quit and find a better company. :)

I’m one of them. :)

I do c/c++/low level development and I earn 100k+ per month…

C++ is a good start for learning, that is why it is used in schools. And you will be doing a lot of self studying in the field of IT, a never ending one to be exact.

ok lng yan maliit na man sahod ng app devs may pamasahe pa sa google kung magaupload ka ng apps mga 1000k sobra,

I suggest you learn PHP + HTML5, Objective C for iOS, or swift iOS is already transitioning.

You already have a good base in Java and Android. We all know that mobile is the next big thing.

Why PHP? You won’t starve if you know HTML 5 and PHP. Very easy to get projects, many companies hire PHP devs but pay very little since competition are though.

Why Obj C? iOS developers are very rare, they get good pay when employed. And the coding is very easy, well for me it is.

Why Swift? Because google is planning to use Swift on android development as well. That makes you a droid and apple coder in one.

Why not other language? It is good know as many as you can, but be an expert to a few at least. Why not microsoft, because they are a dying platform.

.NET (C#, ASP.NET)

kung gusto mo malaki sahop sir asp.net or php/perl (like fb google twiiter sites)

true that. though nasa specialization naman yan. im sure marunong pa din sila/kami mag Hello World.

Nursing skills are routines, IT skills are logical, specially for developers. That is why nursing became over flowing.

Nursing routines does not change as fast as software and technology does.

The key in being successful in IT field is to continue learning. If you are an IT and never practiced for 2 yrs or more, it will be very difficult to catch up.

marami na ring IT grads ngayon. notice the schools that are flourishing (Datamex, STI, AMA) it’s just like when nursing schools began popping out everywhere.

but i think the difference is you actually have to be smart and skilled in this field. some shitty diploma is not enough. so skilled IT profesionals get paid a lot even if there are a lot of shitty graduates unlike in nursing where all graduates are basically the same

@azid what company? I’m a fresh grad na magsstart plng sa paghahanap ng work. If totoo na ganun starting, I want in ;)

why compare to call center agents? the article was talking about IT professionsals. 20k is small even for fresh grad. if you’re making less, either you’re getting ripped off (or you just suck in this field)

The 33k-37k salary for 1-4 yrs IT experience is achievable. The salaries posted here are pretty much accurate based on the people I know ;)