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What's an IT profession that is realistically possible to self-study for and become proficient enough in to get employed within a year? (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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By employed I mean get a job in the industry either offline or online. Ideally something that would highly likely remain in-demand in the near future.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Entry level networking technician. You can get a bunch of useful Cisco certifications for free on their website. Try to get yourself an old switch from ebay to practice setting up a small network, vlans etc., and you've got a solid start.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Try to get yourself an old switch from ebay to practice setting up a small network, vlans etc., and you've got a solid start.

This is what (older) millenials had to do when they wanted to play video games with their friends, no broadband internet, we moved the computer, set up a lan. Good old time. But this is how 20-25 years latter, I have basic knowledge of network, and look at puzzled Gen Z kids when I tell them to set their IP adress and ping the hardware

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Sure as hell wouldn't know what port forwarding is if it wasn't for playing lan games online

[–] rtxn 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

My entire devops career started with writing stupid E2 programs in GMOD and hosting a private Minecraft server (IIRC it was Bukkit or something similar). This is the real pride and accomplishment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Aw yeaaah Java bukkit waddap

[–] sylver_dragon 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I work in cybersecurity now, though I spent about 15 years in Systems Administration. I credit my career to my father buying a computer and letting me tinker with it. There were two factors that taught me a ton about computers:

Creating boot disks for games (this was back in the heyday of MS-DOS).
Realizing "oh shit, I had better fix this before dad gets home."

Nothing teaches how to work on computers quite like working on a computer. And much of that "working" is actually figuring out how to un-fuck the computer you just fucked up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

The last part is a gem I will forever love.
Nothing quite like the oh fuck.

The job equivalent for the customer is us saying "That's unusual" :)

[–] Strobelt 4 points 9 months ago

Your comment made me really nostalgic for the days of setting up pan parties, configuring hamachi servers, etc. Good old days

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I see this as also a very future proof career. Even if businesses move the vast majority of their infrastructure to the cloud they’ll still have an on premises network presence.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Appreciate the response! Any specific video/reading course to start with?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I didn't use any video resources back when I got into it, so really couldn't tell, sorry. But I'm sure there will be some networking 101 courses on youtube.