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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.
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
Sure as hell wouldn't know what port forwarding is if it wasn't for playing lan games online
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.
Aw yeaaah Java bukkit waddap
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:
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.
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" :)
Your comment made me really nostalgic for the days of setting up pan parties, configuring hamachi servers, etc. Good old days
I see this as also a very future proof career. Even if businesses move the vast majority of their infrastructure to the cloud theyβll still have an on premises network presence.
Appreciate the response! Any specific video/reading course to start with?
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.