Rise and Fall of an Information Technology Outsourcing Program: a qualitative Analysis of a Troubled Corporate Initiative
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Rise and Fall of an Information Technology Outsourcing Program A
Pre-professional phase.
I view the initial phase of my career as my pre-professional phase. This time period includes jobs I held before and up through earning my Associate Degree and my first IT internship. I have always felt I started late on my education and professional career. I did not attend college immediately after high school. In fact, I did not start attending community college until I had been out of high school for five years. During that time I held a variety of jobs, the significance of which was the strong motivation they imparted to me to finally go to college in my early twenties. The year and a half I spent working in a factory stacking boxes of frozen turkeys for eight hours per day was the tipping point. I had no plan or direction of what I wanted to do next, other than to get out of the frozen-turkey business, so I moved back in with my parents. They had recently purchased a new computer that ran the Windows 3 operating system and had early, dial-up Internet access via Netscape. I had little experience working with computers up to this point, but remembered my first experience getting lost solving puzzles with computers. Keep in mind that the early Internet browsing experience then was not the commodity we enjoy today; my sense of getting lost was not the same as hours of idle Internet surfing. I just got hooked on learning how to use and take care of the computer, which led to my 53 enrollment in a two-year computer information systems program. Success in my initial computer programming classes is what gave me a sense of direction and pointed my career compass toward information technology work. My community college years were at the height of the Y2K preparations to review and update databases and software to correctly process data in the form of “00” as the year 2000, as opposed to 1900 (the de facto starting point universally used when computers first appeared). Needless to say, the specter of a computer-driven Armageddon created a surge in demand for computer programming skills, and during my final semester I landed an internship at a large Fortune 100 insurance and financial services firm. My internship was primarily an exercise in self-study; I was assigned a mentor and given a stack of programming manuals during my first day. I barely saw my mentor for the first couple weeks while I taught myself to write computer programs in Lotus Notes and Microsoft Visual Basic. I was offered and accepted a full-time position at the end of my internship, and still remember the sting of learning that my starting salary was several thousand dollars less per year because I did not have a Bachelor’s Degree. Download 1.05 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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