With Troop Drawdown, IT Looks To Hire More Vets

Lucas123 writes "The military's a great place to learn how to kill people and break things, but many also consider it one of the best training grounds for high-tech skills. 'If you're working on a ship or a plane or tank, you've got responsibility for large, complex, extremely expensive equipment run by highly sophisticated IT platforms and software,' said Mike Brown, senior director of talent acquisition at Siemens. But, just how well do military tech skills translate to private-sector IT? Computerworld spoke to veterans to find out just what they learned during their tours of duty and how hard it was to transition to the civilian workforce."

Danger Zone!

[Anonymous Coward]

I like to brag that, when I walk into the server room, Danger Zone starts blaring in the background.

My life in this hell-hole is extreme. Can't tell you how many times a server blade has nicked me. We go through bandages like coffee at Google around here!

/.... highway to, the, Danger Zone ....

Re:Currently Transitioning

[CPTreese]

*they're (some intelligence I can't even spell)

Re:That seems somewhat smart

[sunderland56]

Wouldn't it be smarter to reward the troops with decent employment, instead of hiring them into mind-numbing dead end jobs?

Besides, I'm slightly worried about hiring people who are completely comfortable with guns in the workplace into high-stress positions.

Re:That seems somewhat smart

[iblum]

low wages, check. no respect from superiors, check. hazardous working conditions, check. surly attitudes, check. sounds like it would make sense. plus it would discourage people from attacking your it folks when the server goes down. (would YOU want to complain about slow download speeds to your IT guy if you knew he was an ex-green beret with PTSD?)