Reasons for choosing IT as a career?

Its worthwhile, the money is good, its challenging, technology is here to stay and its everywhere. Most people I know who work in IT (myself included) it was just a natural route. If you dont love it, then its probably not for you. Alot of people see that there is alot of money in this career and jump in the bandwagon but after a few months or a year or so jump back out because they cant handle it.

But saying that, IT is a very wide field - there's generally something to suit everybody from website site development for those who want to express themselves artistically, to programming for those who want to work in a team, technicians who like working with their hands, IT instructors for people who want to teach, computer forensics for people who want to work with law enforcement, encryption / decryption for people who love maths, hardware developers for people who want to design the next big thing etc.....