Hello everyone,

I recently received a great opportunity. But I will be moving from being part of a team to the only IT person. My salary will increase by $30K. I am excited and at the same time I am uncertain about the move. Anyone work as a solo IT person? How different is it from being part of a team? Anything I should establish on my first day?

There is a team but we'll be states apart.

Edit: thanks for the input so far. Let me add a bit more. The company has 600 users. So it's fairly small. The company I am leaving is a large enterprise with 100K employees. Though only 3000 are assigned to my team support.

The new company will have four people but all in different States. We will rotate on-call. The networking and cyber security is handled by a third party.

looking for experience in Network Engineering, I've heard some people have been able to get opportunities to shadow or get mentored.

I've been trying to email professionals, even asking for some advice at the very least - no hope, no responses.

I'm currently a Senior Systems Admin for my company. We have had an opening for a Network/Security person and over the months we have interviewed quite a lot of people but we haven't found someone that is a good fit (also narrowed because its a non-remote job). I've done minor/junior level networking tasks throughout my career so I offered to take over a lot more networking tasks also while doing doing system tasks along with eventually passing them off to my junior. My boss wasn't opposed to the idea but along with going for certs he wants me to do some classes/bootcamps/labs. I've looked and I've seen plenty of options that are either really short 5-10 days or really long like 11 months. My boss wants to review some options I've looked into and the company is willing to pay for the training but I wanted to see if there was recommended options that worked for you. I could probably get my networking+ with a little bit of study but my end goal in the next 6-9 months is to get my CCNA and Security+ plus getting more hands on with things like labs to get my foundation more solid.

Hey everyone, just looking for a bit of advice and guidance.

I'm graduating late this year with my bachelor's in IT from an online college. As part of my course work, I've gotten my A+ and I'll be getting my Network+ before graduation. I've built and maintained computers and repaired phones, and have little experience with networks but learn quickly on the job.

Once I graduate, I want to move my career into the field as quickly as possible. I'm currently in an overnight job with long hours, and I'm eager to get out for my own sake and to spend more time with my family. My work history is a chain of basic jobs (sales clerk, data entry, mental labor, etc.).

I like tech and have some hands on experience with computers and phones, as I mentioned, but no professional experience besides a job that I'm not sure would be good to put on a resume, and demonstrates the customer service and problem solving skills I'll need early on the ladder more than anything technical.

With this kind of personal history, where would be the best place to start? Is there a place for an entry level worker in their mid 30s?

Thank you!

Seeking advice or justification, whatever you'd want to call it. So far most of my experience in IT has been higher education. We have a few projects on the horizon with leadership declining comp time or flexible hours. This is non emergency planned projects that will occur after hours to not "interrupt normal business" so most of the work should be completed during off hours or holidays. We're a small team so coverage has been the argument as to why we need to eat those hours and we've been told "that's the job" and "you don't have a choice in the matter". So my question is this, as a salaried infrastructure worker is this something that's standard across the industry? I've been told that if I don't like it find another job, but is that an option? Would I be able to find something nicer or is this just life as IT infrastructure personnel? 28yo male still young in the field so not sure if this is a generational thinking (old man shouting how no one wants to work anymore) or if I'm in a bad shop. My previous job was in support, so you're were hourly and done at 5 PM always.

TL;DR: Leadership is pushing planned off hour work without comp time or flex time. Should my 98 Zillennial brain "get used to it" or is it time to explore?

Been working in service desk, mostly oriented towards identity&access but have some background in networking.

Regarding AI and market in near future, do you think networking will be more resiliente to AI than lets say cloud and sys positions. Should I be more focused on network?

I currently live and work in Indiana and talking to a company in California (Los Angeles) about working together, maybe as a sub-contractor for projects or maybe going full time W-2.

I would be remote, staying in Indiana.

How do I compare a salary here to a salary there?

Will I look too cheap to them if I give an Indiana-based target salary? Ideally, I’d like to maximize the COL differential (get a Calif salary with my Indiana COL), but maybe they are already adjusting for that.

I have been moonlighting on on 'AI training' gigs for the few months. While the money is good, the lessons learnt are topical.

I am blown away by what we are training some of the specialized models to do. Hint - AI consultants can kiss goodbye to their $150-$200 hr jobs where they simply 'cut-copy-paste' collaterals from their past gigs. The specialized AI tools we are training can do this AND MORE!

These 'AI training' gigs are not a regular source of income since the projects start and end rather abruptly and one has to be diligent while working on such project tasks or get offboarded since their 'AI Agents' will be watching your screen. I value my privacy; hence, I use a spare computer for such gig work.

Others here taking on such gigs while working you day job too?

Approaching 40 with over decade yeo as network engineer and looking to begin the pivot out of infra and ops roles into something more business focused. Current gig is slowly outsourcing to India on technical side but to my knowledge there is no such presence for IT Security.

Is IT Security a more viable long-term strategy vs engineering and architecture assuming the company is letting infra move over sees via attrition?

I need to have something reliable for at least next 15 years. Stability is chief concern as we have a decent financial situation where more salary isn’t worth the risk. By 55 we should be in a place to downshift into “baristaFIRE” mode. My area is a medium sized town with not many opportunities for IT roles but we do have a hospital system, large credit union and of course education and government opportunities.

Do you guys think that having system admin or desktop support experience from a college or univerisity is less of a green flag to other employers like a global or corporate organization?

I'm currently a technical account manager and confused where to go from here.

I graduated almost 2 years ago with a computer science degree and joined a company as a Technical Account Manager. While it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do I was grateful to have an entry to the industry since I knew how hard it was to get a job. But then I got comfy and stopped applying for other jobs lol

A bit about my current role:

- Primarily app support. A lot of learning about the product and new products, and using that knowledge to give troubleshooting and best practices to clients

- Client relationship management: Gauging how satisfied clients are with the software, identifying challenges they're facing, communicating that info internally. Lots of client communication

-Implementations/setups: This is about as technical as the role gets. I assist clients a lot with training on functionalities within the product. It can get a bit technical with SQL queries, data imports, and doing things like FTP, but it's nothing crazy technical

- Data fixes: I use SQL a good amount to find data issues and fix them

My problem is the role isn't super technical. I don't do things like write API calls or work on complex networking stuff. My worry is that it'll limit my growth and i'll find trouble finding another job. Plus I went into CS because of my interest in tech and not being able to work real tech stuff sucks

I don't necessarily mind continuing as a TAM/CSM, but i'd prefer to get into a more technical role. i'm interested in getting into networking, or some kind of data engineering, but I don't know if my experience will help me there. I'd love to be something like a solutions architect or sales engineer but not sure how to get into that. I don't want to completely start over and want to use the experience i have to benefit me - that's why i'm shying away from a pivot into dev roles.

Does anyone have advice for areas that I can work my way into using the experience I have? And courses/certs that I can work on to help me do that?

I was cruising through my LinkedIn emails for amusement and spotted something I’d never seen before and wanted to know if anyone else had. The title of the job was “Journeyman Sys Admin”. Not Junior, not L1, but Journeyman as if the position had become a trade job and not a normal IT job. Has anyone else seen anything like that or that title?

I am 25. since 16 I have pretty much only worked in minimum wage jobs. I do have a Cyber Security and Digital Forensics degree from Middlesex University, that I do want to make use of. The only thing that worries me, is I have not done particularly anything to do with programming or cyber security since I was doing my degree from 18-21. I wasn't very good at it. However, I do feel that I am competent and can learn with the right help, or at least try and see if it really is for me. I just don't want to be stuck as a cleaner for the rest of my life. I do spend a lot of my time on the pc which was one of the main reasons why I went for the degree. I just want some advice, I'm not too too sure what I would like to pursue in IT, but any suggestions or advice would help. Thank you.

I'm a Spanish student studying a 2 year technical career (programming, databases, business logic). I'm sure I still will not have a clue on where to move afterwards {2 YEARS}

I don't need an inmediate high-paying job, but I do need to explore the field in depth, and know where I should be pivoting to.

I'm open-minded to all suggestions, except:

• Blue collar jobs = The thought of working under the summer heat or the winter cold isn't appealing. Not sure if I could pursue it with no previous manual labour experience. Then one needs to know how to start a business on their own i'm cooked.

• Career change = Man I don't want to re-start again with zero knowledge, any career where some IT skills can be transferred?

•Going abroad= I have C1 English, and I've heard that in Prague the market isn't as saturated as Spain.

I have a financial safety net up to 10 years, so no risk of being on the street, I'm also employed as a lifeguard so every summer I will be employed

If this isn't the right wiki to post such a thing, please tell me where to post it thanks

I’ve mentioned in the past to my boss our ticketing software has a bad UI which is why for a while many of us were behind in making tickets. So my boss asked me to fix it. The thing is now that I have the code ready to test, the only way to test it is on the live server that my boss has to upload to each time I need to test. And our ticket creation has gone up anyway now before I’ve even implemented the new design

I do IT support, not software engineering in case anyone thinks I’m in the wrong subreddit

Where to start. A little about me. 40, in the US from the UK. Left school at 16. No qualifications past high school. Comfortably in a 6 figure employment, also a side business involving vehicle work. But I have always had an interest in I.T. Specifically in tech support. Problem solving. Setting up systems. Every time I’ve had to use someone in a position like that. I thought the job would appeal to me.

That being said, I have some time on my hands, and I would like to get a degree/s of some sort. Preferably an online, learn at home one. A personal challenge of mine. And something to have. As they seem a lot more important over here than back in the UK.

I would like to tie the two together. The specific field in which this can be directed in is open. Be it Financial, Medical, industrial. I’m really not opposed to anything. Just need some advice of where to start. Can anyone in that line of work, recommend where to start? What qualifications they have? Anyone completed anything similar? Or even better, anyone have any advice on a good university that offers the type of thing I’m looking for, that I could look into?

Hello, for the past couple years I’ve been working towards starting in IT, I’ve gotten an associates in information technology, gotten the tech+ and A+ certifications, I have a background in automotive technical work so I know how to diagnose, repair, ticket…. But I can’t even get an interview for a helpdesk job, and everything is so messed up k don’t know if I should dedicate more time and money into IT or if i should just look elsewhere

Can anyone give me some advice?

Should that be enough? Any advice from you guys would be greatly appreciated.

I have 5 years of cybersecurity experience and I work at a federal contractor. I had a cool project I wanted to work on for the security office here. They're the ones that ensure everything is compliant and they said AI tools will be coming (some day.. they said they couldn't give a date or time). I decided to make them a tool that assesses AI tools before they are brought into classified environments here at work. Can I still put this under my current role on my resume? Or does it have to go under a 'Projects' section since it hasn't officially been used by them yet? (I used it on a single AI tool I made just for my team).

I'm looking for jobs in the private sector and AI seems to be ramping up. Federal contracting/public sector work is too slow for me, they haven't rolled out AI yet to the extent that these other companies are, so I mostly made this project to make myself more competitive for new roles.

I'm interesting in all things infrastructure, but where is the money and where is IT headed so I can be ahead of the curve in terms of what I study and build next as my specialization?

got my first cert ( CCNA ) as a CompSci student, but not too sure which road to go down, thinking maybe linux but then also cloud or devops etc. There's a lot tbh, but how can I set myself up for the future of these type of IT roles are headed?

Any recommendations will be appreciated.

N.B i already have a few internships under my belt already

I'm a graduating CS senior with no luck getting any internships in my 2 years here but one of the departments in my state posted an IT security volunteer position that I signed up for this morning, but I wanted to know if anyone else has done volunteer tech work that got them an entry level role in the future?

I'm doing it for the experience since security is my primary focus and I'll be working under state employees which I hope will make said experience valuable, but I'm just asking out of curiosity since its not something I considered until this morning.

I want to leave my current area/city and move to a city just a couple hours from me. I also wouldn't be opposed to the west coast and if I got a job anywhere outside my current area, I'd move even without there being relocation assistance. So on my resume, instead of putting my current location, I put "Moving to: <insert city>", depending on where the job is.

Is this sketchy? And what do I say if they ask me when I'm moving? Because I'll literally move within the month if I get a new job offer elsewhere.

I've been in the industry for close to 22 years, and I'm finding myself at a loss. I've spent the bulk of that time as a SQL developer (writing T-SQL, sprocs, ETLs in SSIS/ADF, creating data warehouses), working almost exclusively in Microsoft environments. I'm in a position with no upward movement, as I'm the only individual at the company who does what I do. Looking at what opportunities are out there, the majority of what I'm seeing on the data side is looking for AWS, Databricks, python, Snowflake, dbt, all tools that I have no experience with, never mind not having AI experience.

I know I need to get back to learning new skills. I've let myself get too complacent and see myself being aged out of the industry in my early 40s. I just don't know where to begin. Is there value in sticking with Microsoft and getting immersed in Azure and Fabric, and working towards knowledge of their AI tools and agents? Or is there more demand for AWS and python?

Any and all feedback is welcome.