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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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[–] viking@infosec.pub 1 points 9 months ago (1 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.

[–] Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago (1 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

[–] DudeDudenson@lemmings.world 1 points 9 months ago

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

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Honestly? Pretty much anything. Not a senior level position unless you're willing to really fudge your resume but entry or mid level - sure. If you put your nose to the grindstone you can learn to do pretty much anything in a year... that's a long fucking time.

What kind of IT were you looking at? System administration? IT Support/Help Desk? Development? Networking? Ops?

[–] OmanMkII@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I went in with a 4 year degree, the other grad next to me went in with a 6 month kinda masters. You can pull it off if you try hard enough and know your shit, wish I'd known that before I wasted so long at uni.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

6 month kinda masters

What's that, diploma mill?