Assistant IT position? Sure, why not?

[strawbabies]

My husband has worked in computers for most of his life and is a senior-level programmer now. I asked him the going rate for an entry level IT position. He figures it's around $15-20k US.

I used the Head First books to each myself HTML and CSS. I plan on buying the networking book for myself later. You might want to pick up a copy and read it to learn about how they work.

[PastryGal]

Hope you get the job!!!! *crossing fingers and sending good luck*

[rose_metal_nz]

Fingers & toes crossed for you!

Also, hope there's a payrise involved

[Jetfire]

Sadly, most of the time, the people who work in the trenches, and who probably interviewed/talked to you, recognize the importance and experience of hands on learning vs school learning.

But the people who make the actual decisions, look at Applicant A with hands on, and Applicant B with a lot of Courses and Programs and other acronyms; and decide to buy the Alphabet soup.

Years ago, I was in a developer office with 4 programmers. One of our best programmers was almost entirely self taught. We were lucky that our manager recognized the importance of that, and he (the manager) confided in me/us once that the good guy would sadly tend to be overlooked by a lot of offices just because he didn't have the Alphabet Soup.

[BeeMused]

Perhaps you can have a spoonful of Alphabet Soup for yourself, that's doable in a few months.

[Seshat]

If your IT staff are excellent, you almost never notice their work: it's one of THOSE sorts of positions. You notice it when they screw up, and when they keep everything running smoothly, it's just not seen.

[Chromatix]

Someone should explain to him about malvertising.

[Tama]

Are you sure you didn't hire Mordac and Wally's secret lovechild?

/Dilbert