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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 3844140" data-attributes="member: 26737">I will tell you that IT is a young man's game, and it sucks if you don't want to move into management, because that's pretty much where you have to go as you get older. As a result, in addition to your technical education, you need to be studying leadership.I'd suggest a lot of non-technical reading, starting with Dale Carnegie's How To Win Friends and Influence People. Computing might be about technology, but IT is about people, and Dale Carnegie knew a heck of a lot about dealing with people.Next, I'd recommend SGM Kyle Lamb's Leadership In the Shadows. Dude knows a lot about training warriors (he's the co-founder of Viking Tactics, after all), but he also learned a lot about leadership, and he does a good job of distilling it into a readable book. John C. Maxwell has also written a bunch on the topic of leadership, so I'd suggest reading pretty much everything he's written on the subject.This will sound corny, but also read (I'd suggest listening to) Zig Ziglar. Some of his stuff is dated, but there is power in positive thinking, especially if you're going into a field where people aren't coming to you because everything is working perfectly and they just want tell you what an awesome job you're doing...Last, but not least, I'd recommend Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery. It dovetails nicely with Zig Ziglar, because almost everything he accomplished he did through maintaining a general positive attitude, even when he was doing menial work.</blockquote>

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