Retraining for a career in IT

[Anonymous No.54447547]

>broke 28 year old
>did ba + msc in humanities subjects like a knob
>want to retrain to relatively chill work-from-home job where I can earn good money

Are the options between AWS, Cybersecurity and Software Development? Which is the best out of the 3?

[Anonymous No.54447609]

>>54447547
>Cyber security
No shot at entry level unless you already have 4-8 years experience in IT and security clearance
>Aws
Okay
>Software development
Okay
Pick either
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[Anonymous No.54447843]

>>54447547
>broke 28 year old
>still delusional
Nigga you are dumb (no offense) get a shitty job and buy ALT-coins - and hope for the best..

[Anonymous No.54448086]

>>54447547
Kind of going through the same thing anon. From my obsessive googling, software engineer jobs are the most abundant (ranging from webdev code monkey actual engineer), even with the current abysmal job market.
How do you plan on learning? Bootcamp, degree, online course?

[Anonymous No.54448234]

>>54447609
don't take advice on technical careers from a retard who leaves the captcha in his post. get net+ and sec+ and stop asking stupid questions, then you might be onto something.

[Anonymous No.54448274]

>>54447609
>No shot at entry level unless you already have 4-8 years experience in IT and security clearance
This is absolutely bullshit. Cybersecurity has a crisis labor shortage and has been since I've been in the industry in the 2000s; only getting worse. If OP gets his CISSP/A and a networking related cert he can easily find entry level cybersecurity work. If you have you CISSP/A and you aren't getting job offers, you aren't applying.

[Anonymous No.54448301]

>>54447547
Pretty much learning how to trade, and then investing as much as you can afford to'

https://twitter.com/AltcoinistDAO/status/1642914539011207169?s=20

[Anonymous No.54449064]

>>54447843
I already do that.

[Anonymous No.54449084]

>>54448086
No idea yet. Not a degree though I'm already embarrassed by the fact I have two.

[Anonymous No.54449344]

>>54447547
MUH HECKIN CHATGPT WILL UNEMPLOY ALL TECH WORKERS IN MUH HECKIN TWO WEEKS BE A TRADIE IN FLYOVERVILLE USA WITH A FAT WIFE AND BE MUH PUREBLOOD

[Anonymous No.54449381]

Definitely software development. The rest are for brainlets who can't develop.

[Anonymous No.54450063]

>>54449381
>you dont want to develop shitty websites no one will use? heh brainlet

[Anonymous No.54450105]

>>54448274
i've heard the complete opposite regarding cybersecurity. yes, they desperately need people, but will not compromise if you have no experience. the only way people get into cybersecurity is when they "fall" into somehow or another.

[Anonymous No.54451968]

>>54447547
Whose sons are these?

[Anonymous No.54452044]

>>54447547
I need sauce
sauce nao

[Anonymous No.54452097]

>>54450105
> the only way people get into cybersecurity is when they "fall" into somehow or another.
False.
t. was fresh out of college and rolling in cyber job offers with less than a year of IT experience while part time working in college. Granted, I got a bunch of certs and did lots of extra shit. Yet alot of retards from my no-name college got jobs even without doing extra, just partying all the time and got a degree. Get a compsci or cybersec degree anon even if it's from a crappy online college, HR just wants to see a degree to check the box.

[Anonymous No.54452135]

>>54447547
I've been in IT for the past 10 years, touched a little bit of everything. AWS is good money + remote, Cybersec is a meme don't fall for it, SWE is amazing money + remote but is over saturated and people are panicking about AI replacement so your job security is questionable at best. I am speccing hard into AWS and my TC is $200k, $165k is base salary and the other is an annual bonus with some company stock in my portfolio.

[Anonymous No.54452165]

Which aws is best?

[Anonymous No.54452167]

>>54447547
>starting
>at 28
Buddy I’m younger than you and have 5 years experience in that industry. Keep in mind I am not bragging and I am a dime a dozen in this field. How do you ever hope to compete with that?

I am not trying to demoralize you I’m trying to get you to put some more thought into a clearly half baked idea

[Anonymous No.54452190]

I am studying web development and I am finally enjoying it. Is a career possible without having a degree?

[Anonymous No.54452194]

>>54452135
> Cybersec is a meme don't fall for it
Worst advice in the entire thread

[Anonymous No.54452222]

>>54452135
How did you (and/or those on your team) get AWS jobs? Specifically, those you know who didn't have 10 years of random IT experience.
I work on the business/sales side of IT (not technical) and want to switch to something more lucrative and technical.

[Anonymous No.54452281]

>>54452194
Its not enough for me to make it, others must fail

[Anonymous No.54452290]

>>54452194
I know a few lower intelligence people who make good money in "Cyber Security". I'm not sure how these people get paid this much to run other people software and update it. I Hope AI replaced this crap soon.

[Anonymous No.54452304]

>>54447547
What do you mean by AWS. Like are you a button pusher who sets up resources? Software engineers can do that themselves, and they usually automate all that shit through something like terraform.

[Anonymous No.54452324]

>>54452194
Blue teaming is soul crushing work on several fronts. Tell me how cool of a career it is when you have to fill out security checklists and antivirus policies for hundreds of devices - remember, we're talking about OP in an entry level position here. You don't get to be a white hat hacker day 1 you fucking silly bitch.
>>54452222
If you want the full story, I started doing my prison sentence as a help desk slave ($35k), moving on to an overnight junior admin ($60k including a $5k night shift bonus), then doing blue team cybersecurity ($75k), I moved back to a systems admin spot as a senior ($110k) which had a focus on VMware, I ended up getting a few AWS certs that my company sponsored and they offered me a spot as a senior cloud architect, where I am at currently. Certifications get you in the door, connections make you a known commodity. I'm sure there is something similar that can be said for you in the sales department. If you have any questions I will be here for a bit.

[Anonymous No.54452344]

>>54447547
>doing a masters without developing any skills

Faggot. I'm doing a masters in some faggot liberal arts, but at least I'm learning R and Python programming languages.

[Anonymous No.54452489]

>>54448274
I don't understand why you have to get (read: pay for) training before the job. My anxiety/ADHD-addled brain absorbs material like a sponge when training on-the-job, but any time I try to do it before actually having a job (and specific tasks) lined up, I'm taking multiple detours into semi-panic about how I'm going to make ends meet (or self-medicating to avoid that).

[Anonymous No.54452522]

>>54452135
>AWS is good money
>Amazon goes out of business, cottage industry collapses
What then?

[Anonymous No.54452538]

>>54452522
I fall back on the other 10 years of experience I have working with other systems and move on like nothing happened.

[Anonymous No.54452571]

>>54452324
red team > blue team no contest

[Anonymous No.54452581]

>>54452324
You do indeed sound like a hotshot 27-year-old who thinks he has it all figured out and is gonna be cold-cocked by something in their 30s. Can't tell if it'll be personal or career, but your late 30s/early 40s are gonna be rough, buddy. Might even be the kind where you're outwardly successful but wake up every day wanting to jump into a noose instead of your tie.

[Anonymous No.54452684]

>>54452571
I have no retort, red teaming is a lot more fun but will involve a much more intense set of skills that OP realistically does not have the time to make marketable. You need a strong programming background with a desire to break not only technologies but also people. Encryption algorithms are actually quite strong, most cyber incidents occur because Shaquinda opened up an email and decided to click the attached PDF with an embedded rootkit. Not saying it's impossible but the amount of effort and dedication at this point would have to be obsessive and compulsive, all other activities be damned.
>>54452581
You are self admittedly mentally ill and self medicate to cope with your shitty life. You are in no position to say anything about anyone else's life.

[Anonymous No.54452963]

>>54452684
Au contraire, years of coping have given me exceptional insight into the process of falling off the wagon. I know the signs. And you, sir, are teetering.

[Anonymous No.54452984]

I went through the same thing. The jobs I was looking at, category/Data analysts wanted me to be an expert in SQL, Python and Tableau. I got certifications for them and Power bl and got a job.

[Anonymous No.54452992]

>>54447547
Software Development can cover a lot usually. Lots of jobs you can land with that, although they're all going to be pretty similar as well. Cybersecurity is growing, so it also has potential. A lot of it though is like network/server admin work, so dealing with firewalls and other stuff often. AWS is more specific, but good if you want a more cloud/web background. Anyway, I'm biased because I have a WFH software/dev job and it pays well for mostly minimal efforts, so that's what I'd go for if it were me.

[Anonymous No.54453031]

>>54447547
God I love the early 2000’s blonde girl look so badly it’s unreal

[Anonymous No.54453845]

>>54447547
You can do it OP. I was a retail wagecuck until the age of 26, got my first role in IT at the age of 27 in 2019. Burnt out after 1 year 9 months as a sole IT nerd for a small business, then went NEET mode for 8 months, lucked into a second IT job that paid 75K (the first job was 55K a year and was killing me), got a yearly raise twice in a row, left that job at 95k a year and moved into a fulltime WFH job for 140K just a few months ago.

I'm a retard and I did it. You can do it too. IT is a fucking meme. "System Administrators" are all a bunch of retards who rely on MSP's to get shit done, and by being a loner and weird people will try to avoid you as much as possible. It's awesome.

[Anonymous No.54453958]

I make 25/hr chopping up and processing people's body tissues and getting data for cancer analysis that doctors use to treat their patients. I fucked up so bad it hurts. Seeing all the IT salaries and what they actually do makes me want to hang myself

[Anonymous No.54453980]

>>54453031
That’s a common bimbo zoomer

[Anonymous No.54454005]

>>54447547
>28
>negarive value BA and masters
>want work from home
Look, the best I can offer you is entry level helpdesk or a telemarketer position. That's all you're getting.

[Anonymous No.54454022]

>>54447547
https://roadmap.sh/
This is probably the best place to start if you have no idea. Feel free to look around at any given path, learn and google what you dont know. Try to explore what peaks your interest and as soon as possible start trying to program to solve a simple problem you personally have. ChatGPT could also be really helpful at explaining concepts or pieces of code you dont understand. If you feel overwhelmed thats natural.

[Anonymous No.54454065]

>>54447547
cybersecurity has a ridiculously low barrier to entry
"omg crowdstrike alerted me to something, better check the logs and close the ticket"
software development is much more difficult

[Anonymous No.54454652]

>>54447547
If you get a degree you can slip into cybersec through the military. Kind of rolling the dice on whether you'll become cannon fodder though/

[Anonymous No.54454704]

>>54454652
How do?
T. Don’t particularly care if I get my legs blown off by a Chinese mortar round

[Anonymous No.54454707]

>>54453958
Make sure you never go to /fit/ then, those guys started benching 3 plates after one week at the gym. They are a bunch of fags though because I was benching 4 plates my first day.

[Anonymous No.54454714]

Can't believe I read every fuckin reply in this shit thread and not a single one was sauce on the OP's pic.

[Anonymous No.54454994]

>>54454714
Faye Tasker and Stevie-Louise Ritchie

[Anonymous No.54456480]

>>54454022
Thanks for this resource anon

[Anonymous No.54456491]

>>54447547
is that a porn video?

[Anonymous No.54456952]

>>54451968
I don't know but I'm the one on the right and I was an orphan