Helps if you can maybe get a degree from a college whos CIS program conists of a core of Business classess, and electives are Computer classess.

For example, my college CIS course consists of me taking all of the Business Administration Cores ( Organizational management, Operations management, Macro and Micro economics, Business Policy, Business stats, Accounting I, and II, Finance, Ethics etc etc) and my electives are computer classess (Programming I, II, Networking I, II, Database Design, Systems Analysis and design etc etc).


This type of program gives you a lot of diversity...you can be the little man at the computer or you can be the CIO of a company. In IT, Diversification of job skills is vital to survive. I applied for a job at a Cable/Internet/phone provider here where I live. The job is "Network Operations support Specialist" however not only are the qualifications Cisco routers, Linux/Windows servers, TCP/IP protocols, but also Cisco Call manager, VOIP protocols, and varios telco equipment.


The more you know about different things the better off you are.