Study.com - Lack of Support

[jamshid666]

Yup, haha... Yeah, I totally agree, I love learning and usually just have only a handful of courses, like 5-7 of them and progress as I go. I dunno... There should be an easier way to have the courses kind of bookmarked for work on later instead of having it cluttering the "My Courses" area.  Maybe an area for "my next set of courses" or something along those lines...

BTW, I didn't know you were an IBM'er!  I was too for 11 years, I contracted/consulted with them after consulting/contracting 7.5 years at NewsCorp, pretty much the same role - Technical Analyst, I left IBM exactly a year ago (I wrote about that post somewhere on the board), now working at another company - Senior Technical Analyst role.  

Hmm, your pay grade should have been one above mine, as you were an IT Architect! I'm envious now!  Too bad they don't let you keep your email/account info for either companies.  Speaking of email, I'm still looking for schools that provide alumni status/school email etc, even if you have graduated from them... I want a lifetime email/status <laugh>.

WGU provides lifetime email to their alumni, I don't know which other schools do the same.  Doing a quick google search for "what schools give alumni lifetime email" shows that lots of schools are providing this service now.  Unlike WGU, where your email stays the same (username@wgu.edu), most of the other colleges are using this format: username@alumni.school.edu.

In regards to pay grades at IBM, the sad thing about IT Architect is that it had the same pay band as Senior IT Specialist, so when I switched over, my pay didn't change.  Or, maybe my pay band changed, but my salary was within the range for both positions and my manager didn't give me a pay raise.  It's hard to tell since IBM doesn't publish that data and some managers don't share that information with their subordinates.  I ended up going to HP to get a nice pay raise, and then had to switch companies again to get another one.  It seems like you get better pay raises when you switch companies, at least within IT.