My Life With IT

I’m not sure if being a female will make you lose out in the IT industry. Perhaps when you are in the server administration role or helpdesk support. This, I agree with Kriscell. I have a friend who is in this role and has to move the servers. However, once she is pregnant, she will need help.

It isn’t easy to stay long in this role as there isn’t much prospects to go on if you are the type who is aiming for the position of the CIO. For a female to stay on in the IT industry, one has to continue learning new things like programming languages that are upcoming, getting certified for new software, and more.

Females tend to be thought of as the soft types, programming has better prospects due to the pay. With the knowledge of BW, BI, Oracle, SAP, PHP, AJAX, and many more languages, it helps to stay on in this game. The technology changes almost every 3 months and the new ones are trying to be better than the old ones.

However, in truth, how long do we stay updated? How fast can we upgrade ourselves? The question about females being suitable of IT is a relevant one but there is something that is missed out. The person who was asking it has a diploma. Despite her experience, she is losing out in terms of pay. Unfortunately, the scope that she has, doesn’t pay that well in the long run. She could be comparing herself to her male counterparts.

It is true that gender plays a part when it comes to any jobs, not just IT. When accounting comes to mind, females tend to come into mind. When it comes to moving the heavy servers around, males are needed when there is no way to move that server rack.

As females continue working in the IT industry, they aren’t really losing out but when it comes to pay, one is no longer sure.

The difference between working in the office and from home are what I have noticed.

Office

1. No MSN allowed.
2. No other software allowed to be installed even if they help with work. No open source.
3. No non-offical websites to be surfed.
4. No loud music or radio to be played.
5. Fixed working hours and over time may not be paid.

Home

1. MSN is allowed.
2. Any software that helps with the work is allowed. Open source is often used.
3. Any website that aren’t blocked by the ISP allowed.
4. The music can be played as loud as possible. However, you will go deaf in this case.
5. Flexible working hours. Over time to be claimed from clients depending on the contract’s terms and conditions.

These are just some of the differences. There are more such as the lack of social contact and facing the same room everyday and sometimes, forgetting to take breaks and put in more working hours. There are pros and cons to each but I am now much happier not to face the cubicles and most of the time, the privacy to doing my things without being interrupted at inappropriate times.

I am happy to do other things away from the computer when it strikes me. I am happy to just work in front of the computer without having the need to dress up appropriately for work. I am also happier that I can install as many web browsers and tabs for my convenience.

I am also happy to work in short bursts of energy on the necessary things that need my attention.

Having been blogging for quite some time, I have come to identify that blogging is an obsession. A blog is a site where ideas and opinions are meshed together.

Blog Abuse

After reading different types of blogs, from niche to personal, I have realised the abuse that blogs have become. There are many who make use of the traffic from genuine niche blogs to redirect to their money making sites infested with Google Adsense, Kontera and affiliates. The sites have no content value except to trick the non-savvy into clicking the advertisements.

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Blog Wars

When someone blogs about the personal opinion of a certain subject, another takes offence and starts a post linking to the “offending” post. Another trigger could be from an interview with the newspapers and one blogger starts to be offended at being quoted as “second fiddle” to the other. This starts with the blogger stating the reasons that the other isn’t good enough and a blog war is started.

Throughout my journey with blogging, I have experimented with a few niches that I have interests in and they are gaining traffic at a slow pace. This is a good sign as it meant that I am doing something in the right direction.

While there have been negatives seen along the way, blogs don’t necessarily mean negative. I haven’t seen anything that has no negatives.

New Friends

New friends with similar interests are found. It’s much more fun talking about blogging stuff with people who have similar interest in blogging.

Community

A community is created and it’s filled with more people who have tried blogging with different platforms and their frustrations with the platforms.

Knowledge Shared

Knowledge is shared among people with common interest. There have been times when one posted a request for looking for missing friends or family members whereby the people were found.

Blogs have evolved from personal diary to niche whereby different sites attract the group that is being targeted. Some have even started their own eHow, Wikipedia and even shop blogs. Shop blogs are gaining popularity in certain countries due to the uniqueness of the products and most of the time, availability of products that can’t be found in the country.

This is a group writing project by Daily Blog Tips.

After using WP for so long and doing my own upgrades when necessary, I found that the new UI is a refreshing look. All other features work find except for the widgets. I am not the only one complaining of the way the widgets work now.

I just wanted to move my text widget to another sidebar. So, I removed it and saved. Only to realised that it has been totally deleted. That’s not what I intended. I have to find all my codes again and add a new text widget. I have no idea why the new changes to the widgets but it would be nice for us to be able to control whether the text widgets gets deleted, no?

I thought it was so much easier just to drag and drop. Now, it’s changed to something that isn’t that friendly and easy to use at all.

A 57-year-old man, unable to curb his urges, surfs porn at work, everyday for at least 3 hours. He was discovered when his computer keeps being repaired for virus infections. He was a very hardworking man indeed to have kept up his interests at work. He has kept the image of Japanese being the hardest working among Asia.

I know my traffic here isn’t much to shout about. I haven’t even worked towards making the Alexa rank or Technorati rank to be higher. In fact, I’m not working so hard at improving the rankings.

So, how do I improve my Alexa rank? I know I can’t do a thing about Google Page Rank though. Perhaps I should use some of the tips by Dosh Dosh in improving my Alexa rank by using the redirection method, install Firefox with Alexa toolbar and flaunt my website.

I have been linking to other sites all these time but I guess I still need time to work towards being discovered, Stumbled upon or Digged.

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