This post has content warnings for: bit of a negative Nancy here.
- he/him
professional procrastinator. computer enjoyer. 1-800-didge.
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in reply to @us3r's post:
I don't know if you're looking for advice or just venting, but in my experience the best way to get into a decent IT job is to apply at the helpdesk level. A lot of places just need asses in seats with good general problem solving skills to do triage and canned fixes, and that's where you're gonna be exposed to the methods and systems that company is using in the field.
I worked helpdesk doing nights and weekends until I knew the job well enough to work as a coach in the dept, and self-taught the back end stuff until there was a nice IT job in a lab somewhere to move into. It's a lot easier to get those jobs as an internal applicant than as an external since "standards" are fake and every company wants you to know how to make their sauce without giving you a taste.
It could be that I was just spiraling a bit. 'Did help that I was reading/watching a programmer kinda lament on their career. Not learning things early enough, not learning the right things, ignoring health in a field where you sit down a lot, etc. Along with a co-worker who also quit after doing IT most of his life. I think mostly for health reasons? I know he got some amazing stock options at one job so he's also pretty set.
ANYWAY. Now I'm going down the "is this what I even want? Will I contribute anything by doing this or am I just doing this for money?" like my man you work in retail. You've been doing nothing of value for years now.
Part of me is legitimately scared to make that commitment. Assuming I do find a help desk job near here. Just need to wrangle myself when I start jumping to the worst outcomes possible.