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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 SurpriZe@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 66 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (11 children)

I studied hard for a few months, got my A+ and network+ certs from CompTIA.

Got my first helpdesk job making about 47K. 3 years later I was making 85K as a sysadmin. Stay in Helpdesk for 12-24 months, keep studying, start to learn a major infrastructure brand, Azure, AWS, Red Hat Linux, Xen Server, Cisco, etc.

Stay aggro on salary, don't be afraid to jump from job to job as long as you're there for at least a year and you leave on decent terms.

And for the love of Tux, don't settle for piss pay. I can't tell you how many IT folks I've met already in the industry who are Sys admins/engineers/network admins, making 20%,30%,40% under the average pay in their area. Money isn't everything, but it sure as hell ain't nothing either.

And never forget: The company doesn't care about you.

[–] SurpriZe@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks. So is your advice to, basically, study networking?

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago

Not only networking unless you just wanna be a network admin. But networking is one of the most important components, you need the basics to be a good sys admin regardless.

Understand IP addressing, subnets, DHCP, DNS, OSI model, basics of packet anatomy, basics of routing and switching.

Have a solid understanding of those things plus a few other networking subjects, you'll be able to troubleshoot really well. Don't be the sys admin who barely understands IP addressing, I've known that person...not good.

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