For IT Working People

Some points to note for the IT Working people in Singapore
(1) People who code, administer or test will not survive. If you write/fix any kind of code or scripts or do any kind of testing at least once a day your job is in danger.

(2) People who are unable to create something from nothing will not survive. If you need a well-defined set of requirements and design before you can do your work, your job is in danger. If you need someone else to take some vague problem from the customer/boss and come up with a solution that you can implement, your job is in danger. If, however, you invent solutions, you will be fine.

(3) People with inability to solve problems will not survive. This goes to general smartness/intelligence. If you are the kind who can use a cool-head and solve most of problems (job-related or not) through a combination of steps such as keeping a cool head, knowing what to do, who to approach etc, you will be fine. Many problems are tough but you would be surprised to see many people give up before they even take a stab at the easy ones. As an example: Here is a problem given to you by a customer: "Size the work effort that you personally will require to install DB2 on my AS400 box" Bad answer: We are a C++ coding shop. We dont do DB2 admin. We dont know how to size this.Good answer: 6 months (cuz we have to learn all the **** first)

(4) People who will survive are those who can talk to customers to elicit business requirements, design tecnhnical solutions and coordinate project activities - not people who know how to change a config file to get Linux to play mp3 files.

(5) Good-looking people who can talk with management and customers in a confident non-geeky way in perfect English will survive.

(6) If you can relate well with people and can get them to do favors for you, you will survive. If you are the type of person who ends up leading meetings and discussions, you will survive.

(7) If your job is in IT but deals with some kind of calculation involving dollars at least once a day, you will survive.

Source Taken from a book: http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?no_d2=1&sid=08/08/20/1316202