Sensual Woman
A Young Woman's Career

A Young Woman's Career Path How Did I Get Into IT? by ~9-5~

Ten years ago I was still in high school. I had some pretty big dreams. When I was finished high school I was planning on going to uni. I think, at the time, I wanted to study psychology. People and their behaviour have always fascinated me. But then something happened. I've never really been able to work out quite what it was but I think it was boredom. I dropped out of school.

I got myself a full time job as a sales assistant at a department store. Prior to this I'd had no money of my own, so it was a nice change. But I didn't really like the work and I didn't find it very challenging. I stuck at it for a couple of months and then decided I would go back to school. It wasn't until I went back that I realised how much I had grown up during my brief stint in the workforce. I felt like I'd left the other school way behind. Needless to say I didn't last long before I left school again.

I bummed around for a while before getting a job as a trainee receptionist. The work was hard and the pay was crap but what could a high school dropout like me expect? After about nine months I was offered another job, in a supermarket. It was full time work and the pay was about double what I had been getting. I took the job without thinking twice.

It took about twelve months for me to again realise that being a checkout chick was definitely not going to keep me happy. So I looked into the courses the local TAFE had on offer. I found a year twelve equivalent course that sounded great. I enrolled and started learning again. During my twelve months at TAFE I completed a couple of IT modules. Not only did I enjoy them, but I was actually really good at them.

By the time I finished the course I had already decided that the next thing I wanted to do was an IT course. I had a look at what was available. Eventually I decided to enrol in a diploma course that looked really interesting. I loved it. The work was stimulating and I enjoyed the challenge. Half way through the course I moved from the country town I had been living in, to the city where I am currently living. If I had wanted to use it, the move would have been a good excuse to leave the course, but I was hooked. Not only did I want to finish the course but I also wanted to do well at it.

By the time I finished I already had a great full time job lined up. The feeling I got when I went to my first day of full time work in the IT industry was like nothing I'd felt before - a little bit of anxiety mixed with a whole lot of anticipation.

The whole experience taught me one really important thing. It taught me that a little bit of determination will take you a long way.