lr122 0 #1 January 16, 2006 i am fast approaching the end of a BSC degree in ICT and as such am forced into looking for a job in the real world. during this search i haven't seen a single mention of skydiving. surly there must be a call for IT in skydiving. i am well versed in business managment, industrial business processes, data mining and project managment, if anyone knows if there's a call for any of this in skydiving please let me know. Cheers Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bob.dino 1 #2 January 17, 2006 No, not really. Sangiro's got the market cornered for the user community. You could do web-design for the manufacturers, but without a portfolio, who's going to employ you? Working for Larsen & Brusgaard or Alti-2 would require embedded systems design expertise. Which I've never seen taught in sufficient depth in a BSC in ICT. For the record: on average it seems to take about 18 months to turn a graduate into a useful employee. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #3 January 17, 2006 If you wrote really badass manifest software you might be able to make some pocket money, but you're really not going to make a serious living from it. The market just isn't big enough for that, and if you charged enough for the software to do just that no DZ would buy it. Beyond that you could do web design, but you need a portfolio of serious professional web design to get jobs for the big boys. You know you could always create websites for DZs that fully intigrated their intranet software. So the calender automatically updated on the net for the DZO/DZM to check online and export a public calendar. The possible ideas for that type of setup is just about endless, but you're going to have to really prove your software for DZs to buy it and use it. Side note, you could always setup a full on DZ monitoring/running software package that allowed a lot of public side features for web development like galleries, calendars, events pages, etc. The backside could have the ability for pilots to automatically enter AC info via wireless devices such as palm pilots into the system. There is a lot of data that DZs typically keep up with to monitor the AC and pilot performance. That would take an enormous amount of work for not much return, but I think there might be a market there. Beyond that, the IT field is good for skydiving in small amounts and specific purposes...atleast at this point in the industry. That may very well change in the future.--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
