Brehs what jobs/industries would you say are the most meritocratic???

[Lazy Migrant]

I think most of us agree that meritoctacy is a myth but there are some jobs/industries that are more meritocractic than others.

The two that come to mind are sports and the IT field. Thats why so many cert brehs are eating good in the IT field.

UPDATE:
So far we have:

• Engineering
• Sports
• IT
• Sales
• Accounting
• Law
• Hustlin
• Medicine

 

[Koba St]

I would say engineering

 

[IslandG]

Professional sports.

 

[intruder]

I would say engineering

YUP!

being a member a Gamma-fukkWah-Alpha-shytWah wont get you nowhere if you cant deliver on the job

 

[Lazy Migrant]

I would say engineering

YUP!

being a member a Gamma-fukkWah-Alpha-shytWah wont get you nowhere if you cant deliver on the job

Whats a typical day like working as an engineer?

 

[Disgustya Stallone]

it

I started out as a consultant in 2006

4 promos later same company im an enterprise strategy architect, and 2 levels away from partner at a fortune 30 company

 

[Treblemaka]

Incentivized Sales probably. You make your numbers you get your bonus.

 

[Gold]

Whats a typical day like working as an engineer?

Constant monitoring, daily CMRs to update/alter the production environment, constant whiteboarding and brainstorming for your team, constant quote gathering (i hate this part), occasional meetings with vendors (I like this part, they bring you stuff).

But the most time consuming thing you will be doing is meeting with your vp/c-level execs to explain to them why their "bright ideas" are either dumb from a technical standpoint, or cost too much money.

 

[intruder]

Whats a typical day like working as an engineer?

Depends on your role. Wether you're in development or sustaining or support or admin or a combination of them.

I'm in a support role at the moment (at least thats my title) and basically oversee new deployments, integration and handle any issues that come up in the form of trouble tickets. Also handle some admin work for our inhouse platforms. We have to build servers based on customers needs and go through rounds and rounds of testing and then onto the deployments from lab to production. When i say customer i mean the telephone companies which contract us to build their platforms.

Edit: To add i only work with messaging servers and telephony/voip platforms

 

[EndDomination]

Engineering, if you don't perform well, you're axed, especially Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering.
Accountancy, you may have job security, but unless you perform well, they'll drop you before you can even pray that you'll be VP in Big 4.
BigLaw. There may not be a more cutthroat meritocratic field out there, if you can't make it rain by 5th year, you'll find yourself without a job, if you can't bill a minimum of 2000 hours you're out, if you can't handle the hectic workload and work schedule, you're out. But if you over-perform and don't slip up, than million dollar partnership will be yours.

 

[Groanman]

Meritor who?

 

[Treblemaka]

Constant monitoring, daily CMRs to update/alter the production environment, constant whiteboarding and brainstorming for your team, constant quote gathering (i hate this part), occasional meetings with vendors (I like this part, they bring you stuff).

But the most time consuming thing you will be doing is meeting with your vp/c-level execs to explain to them why their "bright ideas" are either dumb from a technical standpoint, or cost too much money.

In my experience as a BA it's usually the other way around.





But then when everything blows up a couple years later you feel vindicated.

 

[Scholar]

it

I started out as a consultant in 2006

4 promos later same company im an enterprise strategy architect, and 2 levels away from partner at a fortune 30 company

Keep grinding bro

 

[Gold]

In my experience as a BA it's usually the other way around.

I cant lie, it is sometimes.

For instance, we (the system engineering team) wanted to get 2 load balancers, but when we quoted them 18k, they were like... nah breh. We aren't really big enough need it, but there's some cool stuff from a networking standpoint we can do with it


But the next week, our CIO pretty much demanded that we turn off split tunneling, which would require that all users who log into our vpn from home, use our pipe for all their internet traffic while on vpn. (for security reasons)

We told them that, yes its more secure, but its asinine from a networking standpoint. All it takes is 15 or so users forgetting to log out of vpn at home, and start watching youtube/netflix on their work machine. Boom, goodbye utilization. It doesn't matter what they are "supposed to do", its what they "will do" that is important.



Its always a back and forth thing. Win some, lose some

 

[Treblemaka]

I cant lie, it is sometimes.

For instance, we (the system engineering team) wanted to get 2 load balancers, but when we quoted them 18k, they were like... nah breh. We aren't really big enough need it, but there's some cool stuff from a networking standpoint we can do with it


But the next week, our CIO pretty much demanded that we turn off split tunneling, which would require that all users who log into our vpn from home, use our pipe for all their internet traffic while on vpn. (for security reasons)

We told them that, yes its more secure, but its asinine from a networking standpoint. All it takes is 15 or so users forgetting to log out of vpn at home, and start watching youtube/netflix on their work machine. Boom, goodbye utilization. It doesn't matter what they are "supposed to do", its what they "will do" that is important.



Its always a back and forth thing. Win some, lose some

Sometime these CIOs gotta play chess to get funding. Doing that will cause bandwidth problems but he will be able to present the "problem" as an issue to the COO or CEO to increase funding for his division.

The other thing I've noticed is that the CIO job is a losers bracket for other departments. So they take a Marketing guy they think is good, but not COO good, but they don't want him to get poached either so they promote him to CIO where he doesn't know anything but feels pacified because now he's "C-level."