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    Advice for my cousin's son trying to start in IT

    I'm visiting my cousin in a couple of weeks, as another of his tribe is turning up from Lancashire or wherever he lives in the wilds of Northern England.

    Anyway, I suspect the main reason he invited me is to advise his son, who graduated with an IT degree last year and, I believe, hasn't yet really found his feet in commercial IT.

    I'm a bit vague about the details, i.e. where he was studying and his grade, or what he has done since graduating. However, I do know he has a regrettable tendency to look down on commercial IT, which as I tried to explain to him won't help his financial prospects.

    So any advice would be welcome.
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    Don't.

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      Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
      I'm visiting my cousin in a couple of weeks, as another of his tribe is turning up from Lancashire or wherever he lives in the wilds of Northern England.

      Anyway, I suspect the main reason he invited me is to advise his son, who graduated with an IT degree last year and, I believe, hasn't yet really found his feet in commercial IT.

      I'm a bit vague about the details, i.e. where he was studying and his grade, or what he has done since graduating. However, I do know he has a regrettable tendency to look down on commercial IT, which as I tried to explain to him won't help his financial prospects.

      So any advice would be welcome.
      He looks down on commercial IT, eh?

      Sounds like a right knob. I remember most of my lecturers at uni - think hardly any of them had real world experience, and come the end of the degree it was becoming blatantly obvious that a large chunk of the stuff we were getting taught was as useful as tits on a bull ...
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        Surely he's old enough to work out what he wants to do with his life?

        Maybe he finds IT 'boring' (or isn't very good at it) so try to find out what his interests are and steer him in that direction.
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            Originally posted by sasguru View Post
            Don't.

            HTH
            WHS

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              Buy him a one-way ticket to Bangalore.

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                Too late, damage done. He could take another degree in say, Business Administration..or anything else really.
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                  "he looks down on commercial IT"

                  does that mean he looks up to the public sector
                  or that he wants to become a contractor

                  what area of IT is he interested in? apart from PS3 user testing
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                    #10
                    He could try suing the university for misrepresentation under the sale of goods act?, if the other case is successful.

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