If you have been here over 10 years, chances are, you are not as marketable as you think you are. Most jobs at AT&T involve a very narrow range of skills. Just because you are a top performer here does not mean you will be in demand outside of the company. You need to train to keep relevant skills.
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That’s true of anyone. In 2020, there’s multiple ways to create income and having variable options is a must. Invest, deliver food, create your own side business, get a degree if you haven’t already, even a certification in a trade or skill. Thinking any retail job will last forever will leave anyone sadly disappointed in the long run.
most leaders and followers are pretty useless at att no matter how long they have been at the nwo cesspool.
OP .... please stfu .... maybe you s— at life .... not everyone does though.
LMAO. Let me move to my new barracks off shore and telecommute from SE Asia. Ill charge $.03 on the $ for the onshore equivalent role. Suddenly I'm Qualified!! Whither the vine.
Truth about working at att.
Not true at all orgs. Giant orgs tend to have very narrow job roles. Not so much in small to medium orgs.
When I started at att, I was suprised how easy and limited my job was. I had to really dig into my technical training for my next job outside of att at a mid size company. The difference in required knowledge to perform my job was huge.
Speak for yourself. Don’t underestimate me.
I think this is honestly the most accurate post I’ve seen on here, other than the comments I’ve made. So many of the employees are arrogant and ignorant clowns. That’s why they love T so much.
I would have to honestly say this is true for the most part! I have lots of industry certifications to support my years of service, but quite frankly, I can teach someone my job in about a day and a half. You pick up all the little nuances of the job while actually doing the work, but there is nothing technical about it whatsoever! An 18 year old fresh out of high school can do my job, yet T places a high dollar amount on the value and I’m not sure why, but thanks to collective bargaining I’m over paid and under worked!
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Yep pretty narrow & accurate!
most are deadwood
Thanks for the unsolicited lecture.
True. Many old proprietary systems that mean nothing outside the company. Nobody cares that you know how to troubleshoot an old phone system.,sorry, but this is true.
This is true virtually for any technical JoB , capitilism is based on specialization, and most folks in most jobs work within a specific narrow field . I suspect your question was more focused on IT and how big corps like T cause you to become stagnant in your skill set.
Look no one is preventing you from learning outside of on the job learning. The truth is it's impossible to train perfectly the next trend in IT because while you may learn docker or micro services today, in 5 years those systems will likely have been supplanted by something else. Plus unless your doing production level work in whatever the next hot job market skill is , you'll always be behind.
This is the big problem with the consolidation of the industry into three companies. There used to be lots of competition for customers AND employees. Not so much anymore and it hurts everyone except the top 1%.
I think you mean employees. Anyway, this is why I independently go through deep level training on my own time on my own dime continuously and constantly, keeping my knowledge and skills sharp, top notch and on the cutting edge. Everyone that works here should have been doing this as common practice since day one.
Do you mean employees!!!D’oh
That's going to hold true for every company. A certain percentage of your knowledge is based on the companies processes and environment. You need to worry when you are spending more time in the minutia of the environment versus any real skill set development.