Someone tell me how to get into the technology field as a 25 year old with no objective technology-related skills. Maybe this is a stupid question, obviously the answers will include variations of "learn code", but if you're someone who currently works in technology and you woke up tomorrow in a new body with your programming skills, experience, and education qualifications stripped from you what steps would you take to get a job? Such as what specific languages, qualifications, resume fillers would you seek? Assume you're still an avid technology enthusiast but you just know the consumer-level aspects of it.
Basically I'm going to apply to Verizon and Best Buy to support myself while I work on building a skill set toward a career. I'm thinking IT consultant. Turned out law wasn't for me, and I've been making some money doing art commissions but it's not enough and even if I became B-list porn artist overnight it wouldn't be quite enough and I want a job with structure.
>8 hours more like 18 hours, then develop a sleep deficit and shift bedtimes by a few hours everyday and finally you stay up for the entire night to "reset fix your life and then the cycle starts anew
the chronic boils on my ass and my broken back and wrists are testament. no escape
Ayden Perry
you will die alone. your consciousness will cease to be. you are the undulating, all seeing, mindless master on a rollercoaster, every minute wasted, every unskippable ad closer to infinite death. whether your consciousness reboots in this reality or it somehow falls back into itself in another life you can't and will never know within the confines of this universe. you are a suspended carbon form with two eyes and a scared small mind attached. You are powerless to change the universe, the death of the cosmos, the death of life, the death of your species, family line, the death of your belongings and influences on any piece of humanity and ultimately the death of your own self and all the memories and thoughts and secrets you never told anyone . Fuck you. And since you're 25, you are on the way to half-life^1 as we speak. too old to change in any great way, too young for any respect, wisdom or pity. you are cold and without true friendship . Even if you love someone and want to genuinely spend every moment of the rest of your life with them it will not end well. One of the two of you will die first, leaving the other cold, alone, unable to reproduce and surrounded by constant reminders of the solitude, ending only when the reciprocating consciousness is crushed by the weight of the determinist universe, of which you are one iota of an iota on a never ending exchange of energy.
apply to a small business instead
Hunter Nelson
So learn Javascript then?
Henry Edwards
>but if you're someone who currently works in technology and you woke up tomorrow in a new body with your programming skills, experience, and education qualifications stripped from you what steps would you take to get a job? I would get a new trade. The only reason I’m in IT is because it’s the only thing I’m good at. If I sudde my lost those skills I’d move the fuck away from it.
Cameron Morris
I spent a year at 25 learning basic bitch webdev and got a senior react job. Web is easy you just have to learn a trillion different tools
Jaxon Hughes
That's kinda what I was thinking. Like literally just online tutorial stuff and self-taught to learn it or go take a community college class?
You have no idea how much comfort the post gives me. I am so relieved that no matter what, some day I will die
Hunter Hall
there's no guarantee that you will live, however
Levi Ward
Well apparently every job makes you want to kill yourself, especially all the ones I've already tried. I like technology and it's something people always come to for advice so I might as well make it a skill.
Levi Barnes
suit yourself. it's certainly possible but it's not as good as it sounds. system administrator or devops sound comfy so you may look into those.
Luis Brooks
neither of the first two options guarantee happiness imagine finding this garbage post meaningful or deep in any way, it only lacks some shitty stock photo of the sea and its a perfect divorced dad facebook post
Thomas Anderson
Good.
Nathan Wright
well no, I am just one outcome of a collapsed wave function, also given the many world QM I will go through infinite lives, also in this life I have had many dreams where I live entire other lives, I have had at least 100 other lives so far just in this one
Sebastian Jackson
> what steps would you take to get a job? I'd go back to my job and reapply as a junior sysadmin.
Jaxson Hernandez
Can you learn enough from CodeAcademy classes to land a dev job?
Adrian Kelly
I found this to be funny for some reason
Sebastian Clark
Bump, CodeAcademy is the only resource I'm really aware of. But I'm dumb.
Jose Morales
I dont like how you sometimes use capital letters and correct punctuation,and sometimes you dont.
Anthony Long
start learning to code
it's never too late
Nolan Ortiz
this.
take advantage of everything while you're alive.
Hunter Baker
I'm 27 and learning C but man it's hard. Should I switch to another language ?
Landon Morgan
if u want a job become a front dev
Hudson Flores
It's not something that you can just learn, give up and suck a dick for a living
Michael Green
yes
if you're new, learn HTML/CSS first then maybe java. Usually learning java first or python is better. But most jobs hire you if you know java
here's reference:
Adam Hall
Thanks but I don't want a job, I want to program MUD games and useful tools
Carson Kelly
this desu :(
Elijah Fisher
and then the captchas I came here when there were none, spam was a thing but it was so much fucking fun
You got a lot of ground to cover. Even with what bullshit they're teaching me in my third year of college as a CS major, it's all been mostly building upon one another. IT Consultant is a pretty low aspiration though, and pretty doable. Network administrator is also easy as fuck, I'd give that a shot if you really just want to work with tech. You can get certified with just a couple books under your belt. Some user will probably say they did it with just walking in, setting their dick to the table and writing their name though.
Wyatt Martin
>25 year old
Too late, better just kill yourself.
Angel White
You don't, since you're not interested in it
Brandon Rodriguez
There is a good chance I'd wake up as a woman, if that's the case, fuck technology, I'm using my body to make money. If I wake up as a man. I guess I'm fucked.
Gavin Thomas
dont make me laugh, there are millions people like, people that just "know syntax". Only thing that matters is building things and being indempendent ( means you dont mean webiste or mentor to hold your hand constantly). If you want to make web, write at least simple REST api, and learn about tools with which you made it. You need concrete experience you could talk about on job interview. And team work - its also important. When you already know some technology deeply, apply to open source project, read other people code and improve it. All of this does not sounds simple because its not, dont listen to media propaganda that says "programming is easy" or something like that
Gavin Cooper
We are nothing. Feels good man.
Ayden Morales
join military(any service) for IT for 3 years. you will have either all of the responsibility, or none of the responsibility and plenty of downtime to study, depending on your leadership. either way you will learn in an environment that you can safely fuck up. some of the services will pay for tech-related certifications, but they are Beginning to move away from this. strike while the iron is hot.
the military security clearance is an enormous boon, and has put me (associates degree w/ 1 yr exp) on par with fresh out of college bachelor degree students, however a bachelor degree is required for BIG NAME (fortune 500) companies.
the more hands-on you are, the less money you will make. you can get pretty far on certifications alone. if you are absolutely computer illiterate start with CompTia A+ certification. if you grew up PC gaming, i suggest CompTia network+ or Sec+. A+ is geek squad tier. Net+ and Sec+ is helpdesk/Field Service/Remote desk tier. anything higher than that with a security clearance (Server+, CISP, CASP) can get you a cushy gov. job 80k+ w/ benefits. 100k+ if you are willing to deploy to the middle east as a civilian contractor.
If you are disciplined you can have all this done and ready to go by the time your military contract expires.
Michael Edwards
Why can they make money by having fun? It's not fair, actually.
Ethan Foster
Bois can be prostitutes too
Jaxon Bailey
Check out Western Governors University if you want a B.S in Software Development or CompSci.
Its like $4k per semester, and you take once class at a time, BUT you can finish each class as quickly as you want. Some dude on reddit just finished his whole degree in 9 months, and only paid for 1 semester.
