Came from Information Technology field

[HighSpeed]

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Yeah, I entered healthcare from the Information Technology field after a solid background in the US Army. Entered through the nursing route. The ideal path would be BSN then med school. It's a sight set in the near future...as long as things sustain a forward momentum 🙂

By the way, you can call this an introduction too cuz I haven't been to this site for a while. The nickname is "HighSpeed". I'm a Texan. Given the strong technology talents I've been blessed with if you have any questions about computers, Consumer Electronics (CE) they call it, especially having to do with home theater (HDTV, surround sound, e.t.c), PM me. I look to frequenting this site from now on. Have a ballistic spring break y'all 🙂

HighSpeeeed...low drag

 

[blee]

Welcome to SDN. 🙂

I worked as an IT consultant for five years before quitting and going back to school. You're not alone!

 

[rkl_OD2be]

Welcome to SDN!

I'm going to optometry school next fall after working for the past 12 years or so as a software developer. There are a handful of other "future OD's" that come from an IT background.

At one time, there was a seemingly endless thread of various people going into medical fields from IT.

Welcome to SDN & best wishes with your medical career!

 

[r_salis]

I'm going to optometry school next fall after working for the past 12 years or so as a software developer. There are a handful of other "future OD's" that come from an IT background.

I'm one of those IT-to-OD career changers, too (I also had 12 years under my belt as a developer, rkl_OD2be! ).

Welcome to SDN -- and good luck with your transition into medicine!

 

[NonTradMed]

Also came from IT (albeit health related), headed off to med school in the fall. Welcome to SDN, you will find many useful information here!

 

[notdeadyet]

5 years at start ups and consulting. You're not alone, OP. There's enough of us that it's not even special anymore....

 

[rianah]

5 years at start ups and consulting. You're not alone, OP. There's enough of us that it's not even special anymore....

13 years in software engineering and doing the med school pre-reqs now 🙂

 

[medicalbound]

10 years of software engineering - off to med school in the fall.

 

[deleted87716]

CS grad (1987), worked for a telecom subsidiary of IBM for six years before changing course. It's never too late to do what you enjoy! 🙂

 

[wook]

Yeah, I entered healthcare from the Information Technology field after a solid background in the US Army. Entered through the nursing route. The ideal path would be BSN then med school. It's a sight set in the near future...as long as things sustain a forward momentum 🙂

By the way, you can call this an introduction too cuz I haven't been to this site for a while. The nickname is "HighSpeed". I'm a Texan. Given the strong technology talents I've been blessed with if you have any questions about computers, Consumer Electronics (CE) they call it, especially having to do with home theater (HDTV, surround sound, e.t.c), PM me. I look to frequenting this site from now on. Have a ballistic spring break y'all 🙂

HighSpeeeed...low drag

Maintain the forward momentum!! As you can see many have done the IT field prior to med school. I did it as 2nd career prior (x7 years) to med school. Keep your eye on the goal and enjoy the trip!!

Wook

 

[thirdunity]

Former graphic production artist, web developer, software QA engineer here. I wore many hats.

Now working on my EMT-B license, as well as my prerequisites for med school and for transferring to 4-year.

Since leaving the whole computer/dotcom world, I finally have stable employment.

 

[Dave_D]

Welcome to the club, somebody get him a drink 😀 Yes, Dave did tech support (please out source that, we don't want it) and software engineer. But on the bright side if on an interview they ask you "Well why are you getting out of technology?" you can say "What are you talking about? Docs use more technology than practically anybody. If I wanted to get away from technology medicine is probably the worst way to do it."

 

[thirdunity]

Welcome to the club, somebody get him a drink 😀 Yes, Dave did tech support (please out source that, we don't want it) and software engineer. But on the bright side if on an interview they ask you "Well why are you getting out of technology?" you can say "What are you talking about? Docs use more technology than practically anybody. If I wanted to get away from technology medicine is probably the worst way to do it."

"Because I really like 18 hour shifts, cheap coffee and sleeping at the office."

 

[DoctorC++]

as my previous IT company would say, "Welcome aboard!"

did web/graphics design for 3 years, c/c++ development at a corporation for 14 months when i told myself enough was enough. currently on my way of finishing pre-med requirements. medicine is where i belong.

if you build it, they will come.

 

[wook]

as my previous IT company would say, "Welcome aboard!"

did web/graphics design for 3 years, c/c++ development at a corporation for 14 months when i told myself enough was enough. currently on my way of finishing pre-med requirements. medicine is where i belong.

Would never have guessed your previous background from your name !! I love C/C++!!!

Wook

 

[windycitycassie]

Welcome. 🙂 You're definitely not alone, judging by the huge IT thread here for those who came from that background. 😉 Same for me, although I'll be leaving network security (pays well and has been stable) due to it not being what I want to do.

 

[DaveinDallas]

18 years as a software dweeb - DOD contractors and Telecomm. I learned to despise C++, figuring it was a cheap way to force good engineering practice when we didn't have the time to teach people to touch data only
through accepted methods, rather than by finding the address and going through the back door. I thought it was laughable when one place I worked developed their own OO language (dont' ask) and then after being taught the syntax of the language, we were told all about the back doors to the data so we wouldn't have to use the methods we had just created.....Wonderful.....

6 years as an assembly programmer when C was just a dream and Unix was in diapers...

Anyway, finishing up my first year of med. school and I keep asking myself why I spent all those years in misery listening to the 'This project is going to be different 'cause we're in charge now. See, we've already ordered the T-shirts.....'.....

Oh, well, have fun, it's a long, hard road...but well worth it.....

 

[Dave_D]

Damn, how did you put up with it for that long?(It sounds so familiar though, "Hey, why should I waste time on design and good engineering practices when I can just write the code?" Cringeworth material right there.) Then again you know the joke "If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would have destroyed civilization."

18 years as a software dweeb - DOD contractors and Telecomm. I learned to despise C++, figuring it was a cheap way to force good engineering practice when we didn't have the time to teach people to touch data only
through accepted methods, rather than by finding the address and going through the back door. I thought it was laughable when one place I worked developed their own OO language (dont' ask) and then after being taught the syntax of the language, we were told all about the back doors to the data so we wouldn't have to use the methods we had just created.....Wonderful.....

6 years as an assembly programmer when C was just a dream and Unix was in diapers...

Anyway, finishing up my first year of med. school and I keep asking myself why I spent all those years in misery listening to the 'This project is going to be different 'cause we're in charge now. See, we've already ordered the T-shirts.....'.....

Oh, well, have fun, it's a long, hard road...but well worth it.....

 

[DaveinDallas]

Damn, how did you put up with it for that long?(It sounds so familiar though, "Hey, why should I waste time on design and good engineering practices when I can just write the code?" Cringeworth material right there.) Then again you know the joke "If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would have destroyed civilization."

I have no idea. I guess a belief that I could fix it and write bulletproof code. I think the highest complement I ever received was from a test manager. He told me that about 94% of the time, when I fixed something or submitted my code, it worked with no problems. The other 6% were fixed rather easily.

One of the guys I worked with used to constantly say that if you weren't in the lab, management didn't think you were working. He used to spend a great majority of his time roaming the halls, thinking about his design. Within the last 4 weeks before his delivery date, he'd spend 2 weeks writing the design document, 1 week coding and 1 week testing. Rarely missed a date and his code was very good (read easily maintainable with virtually no errors).
Used to make management sweat.......

Anyway, got to go study pharm.....

 

[Dave_D]

I have no idea. I guess a belief that I could fix it and write bulletproof code. I think the highest complement I ever received was from a test manager. He told me that about 94% of the time, when I fixed something or submitted my code, it worked with no problems. The other 6% were fixed rather easily.

Wow, that's weird. You know someone appreciating you actually doing a good job. 😀

One of the guys I worked with used to constantly say that if you weren't in the lab, management didn't think you were working. He used to spend a great majority of his time roaming the halls, thinking about his design. Within the last 4 weeks before his delivery date, he'd spend 2 weeks writing the design document, 1 week coding and 1 week testing. Rarely missed a date and his code was very good (read easily maintainable with virtually no errors).
Used to make management sweat.......

Anyway, got to go study pharm.....

Well that's a good way to do it. You know, think about it ahead of time since one the design's done the actual coding is easy. This is in contrast with the "Figure out the design while you're coding it." school of thought. Of course the guy where I worked that was big into that thought as long as it compiled that was "Good Enough".(And if it actually ran with out crashing that was a bonus, just don't expect it to actually do what it was supposed to do.)