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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)

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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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[-] Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works 28 points 9 months ago

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

[-] DudeDudenson 25 points 9 months ago

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

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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.

[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago

Aw yeaaah Java bukkit waddap

[-] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 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@lemmy.world 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

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