Dear G,
I turn 30 in a few months and I'm a miserable Uber driver. Put me on the fast track to starting a career in IT/DEV so I don't kill myself.
Here's are my stats:
JavaScript: beginner.
HTML/CSS: average
Past experience at a help desk supporting Windows 7 corporate users.
What do G? Do I get certified? Do I go back to the help desk and try to work my way up?
Help me G your my only hope.
You have a fuck ton to learn. Best bet it web developer slave. Learn Javascript. Learn a backend language used in web development. Probably python. Ruby is popular right now. C# is worth considering depending on jobs in your area. Look to see what's in demand.
Once you have that down learn angular. Don't start js with angular or jquery.
This is from a get employed perspective not a best tech perspective.
Good point user. I was leaning towards IT because it seems like there are more jobs in IT than DEV. What made you choose dev?
Why do you have this impression that IT or Development won't also make you want to kill yourself?
>best tech
Because the thing that upsets me the most is not being able to support myself or a family and I know I can make good money with a computer career but if I don't start now it will be too late soon because I'm turning 30.
AHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA you're fucked
No user my brother started when he was 31 and he makes 80k now I'm not fucked retard
My plan right now is to get any entry level position in IT and leverage that to get a better position.
Thoughts/Advice?
You can learn to be a dev in a three week bootcamp. You can't learn sysadmin/IT in less than three months, if that. You're better off going dev.
That's interesting. I've been doing dev for 6 years so if you can learn in three weeks then I am already good to go.
Compared to someone who took a three week coding boot camp I am a code god. So how do I get the job then user?
You apply for it? I'm not sure what you're asking, if you're a code god you can work in dev easy. Just go do some interviews and prove your skills on a whiteboard.
Well I mean I am compared to some one who has never coded before and just took a three week boot camp course.
The extent of my dev skills is integrating web3.js with a HTML/CSS front end and deploying it on surge with nodejs.
Don't underestimate how much you can learn in a coding camp, they actually go through a lot of content from what I've heard.
Why not skim job postings in your area for "junior developer" and see what they list for requirements? Then focus on learning those and do some interviews. When corps hire junior devs they're not looking for a crapload of experience... They're looking for someone who looks like they'll learn quick and retain knowledge. Try to remember that for the interviews you do.
Solid advice user thanks
>doing it for the shekels
You're better off dealing drugs. Seriously the reward is much higher and there's stability. There's no stability in IT anymore.
>be deployment monkey
>be made tester
>woo hoo love it
>jobs outsourced to pajeets
>department shrank 90% in two years
The golden age of IT is done. I only do it now because I have fun, absolutely NOT for the money.
Jr. devs here have to have a minimum of three years of experience or a CS degree (not one of those bullshit IT degrees, an honest to god, had to take CalcII CS degree).
I don't know which market you're in. No experience won't fly in established markets in the USA.
Yeah I feel like I'm under qualified to be a junior dev and that's why I'm thinking IT. Three week boot camp = job seems unrealistic to me but maybe I'm just missing out?
I appreciate you guys chiming in I will report back.
>you're better off dealing drugs
you should learn MySQL (used in databases), C/C++, java too.
make sure that you understand all the concepts involved in computer networks.
learn bash so you're comfortable with linux and cli interfaces
cyber security seems like a good field so if you have the cash maybe go for a qualification like OSCP.
there is information on the internet for everything ive mentioned.
work hard and good luck :)
Well...
Common sense here is to learn LISP, go through SICP book
After finishing that you should have good understanding of how programs work
Then, of course, you should have deeper understanding how computers execute code so learn some assembly
Your pick
After these two you should learn something more moder, i.e. C and book is: The C programming language (ANSI C, obviously)
Pretty much this is it. Anything else is bloat.
And for the sake of god, don't look into OOP!!!
After all this make a github page and put there all your incomplete projects.
Good luck hunting for job!
Thank you user I don't know bash but I know perl and I'm comfortable on unix
I have a little experience with a LAMP stack and Wordpress.
I have a eclectic stack of experience.
What do you anons think of including a word list at the bottom of my resume with things I have experience in for the robots. Something like:
I have experience in the following programs: Excel, perl, MySQL etc etc etc.
Thanks user sounds hard but also legit advice.
Although I've already messed with OOP in JavaScript etc
Bump
what's so bad about being an uber driver
they get in the car, you go where they tell you, you get paid
what' the hard part?
>Put me on the fast track to starting a career in IT/DEV
>so I don't kill myself
Choose one, OP.
What's with the NT 3.1 screenshot on every second thread lately?
I choose dev because it's more interesting to me. I've been programming since I was a child. I did about 2 years of web development for low pay (16 hourly) before I found my current position as a NET dev (30 hourly). Working in windows isn't ideal, but it's leaps and bounds better than front end development.
This is with a cis degree from a midsized university.