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Hi everyone! I need some help. I'm in my mid-thirties, and I had a growing career that, since covid, has gotten so flaky I can't properly provide for my family anymore. I have always been interested in tech, and would like to start a career but I'm not sure how to.

Can anyone in the field give me some advice? I don't have much college experience, only did 1 year 17/18 years ago. Looks like I need some sort of college degree, which I'm fine with.

I also saw some online "bootcamp" things... are they good? I would like to do something where I was helping companies be protected from hackers and work from home as much as possible. White hat hacker type of thing... if that's real!

Thank you everyone!

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[-] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Get certified in something. CCNA, RED HAt, whatever. Then take the shittiest L1 help desk job you can find. Get more certs while working and do the linked in and constantly look for a new job. You got this.

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