Maybe I'd wanna work more if the work was meaningful and contributed to a good cause as opposed to existing solely to increase shareholder profits and destroying the planet.
That's that I like about IT - all I do is help people. I've had the privilege of working with some incredible nonprofits, and even playing a tiny part in their mission gives me hope.
Pros: high pay, it's easy to find hybrid work, every day there's something new to learn, it feels nice to help people.
Cons: On-call rotation and sometimes long hours when SHTF (like the Crowdstrike fiasco last year)
I'd recommend picking a specialization early on and stick to it. Avoid cybersecurity, those folks get called after-hours all the time for security alerts that are usually false-positives. Azure devops or D365 are very much in-demand and easily pay 6 figures without needing a degree. Microsoft has free training on learn.microsoft.com and you can take the cert exams for a few hundred bucks.
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Maybe I'd wanna work more if the work was meaningful and contributed to a good cause as opposed to existing solely to increase shareholder profits and destroying the planet.
That's that I like about IT - all I do is help people. I've had the privilege of working with some incredible nonprofits, and even playing a tiny part in their mission gives me hope.
I'm thinking about going into the field. What are some of the pros and cons that you've experienced in it?
Pros: high pay, it's easy to find hybrid work, every day there's something new to learn, it feels nice to help people.
Cons: On-call rotation and sometimes long hours when SHTF (like the Crowdstrike fiasco last year)
I'd recommend picking a specialization early on and stick to it. Avoid cybersecurity, those folks get called after-hours all the time for security alerts that are usually false-positives. Azure devops or D365 are very much in-demand and easily pay 6 figures without needing a degree. Microsoft has free training on learn.microsoft.com and you can take the cert exams for a few hundred bucks.
That's what i did, too. Now, the AI bs makes that feel soulless, too. Gotta get grants, i get it, but man...
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