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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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[–] 38 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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:

    1. Creating boot disks for games (this was back in the heyday of MS-DOS).
    2. 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.

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