IT Professional Military Career

 

IT Professionals : Is Military Career a good option?

IT Career - Military Career is a handsome career. IT is Oxygen. From needles to spaceships, every thing is information which needs to be stored. With advancement in generations and technologies, access to information has become vital source of life existence.

Gen-Z (21st century generations) have huge air-gaps with previous generations, thanks to rapidly spreading fire of social media. World has become global village and challenged the old schooled cultures and lifestyles.

Military stands for Defense or Attack. Military, nowadays, have equipped herself with latest weapons. IT has become modern weapon of mass destruction. Understanding the dire needs of this weapon, militaries all around the globe have started inducting IT geeks, with or without college degrees.

 

Pros of military IT career:

·         Pride of serving your country

·         Secure job

·         Slow pace learning and implementations

·         Pensions and gratuity benefits

·         Post-retirement benefits

·         Medical coverage for self and family

·         Education enhancement programs

 

Cons of military IT career:

·         Confidential Data/technology limits growth

·         Lack of out of box thinking and technology usage

·         Creativity is not always appreciated by high-ups

·         Lack of versatile platforms/ latest industry tools

·         Backward/outdated technology usage in legacy systems

·         Freelancing/side earnings are forbidden

·         No higher education/research unless approved by high-ups