There was a thread on something similar but I can’t seem to find it so I’m gonna ask again.
Looking for some advice in getting into IT. Any tips or pointers are much appreciated. I come from a design background and have spent the better part of the last decade doing that until I got laid off in September. Most of the jobs in that field are now contract work and have a great deal of marketing involved which I hate plus the field is competitive. I’m just trying to make some decent money while working the least amount as possible. I’m fortunate that I managed to have some cash through art sales that I’ll be alright for a few months. Might as well took to a better career path.
I’m going to try to do the a plus certificate this month but what are some other areas to look at? I hear good things about Cisco or net app
I second pisspissass's astute observation, IT largely became flooded back in the early 00's with all the certification bootcamps. It went from a field of self-taught nerds making pretty decent bank to low paying contract work. If you're looking to be a keyboard warrior you've gotta find a niche . I generally recommend people getting into some variants of pentesting and bugfinding; It'll give you a hacker mindset of always looking for holes to exploit, and realtalk, the mechanisms of capital's oppression are largely digital.
Here's a bunch of resources I've posted before:
jhaddix's bug hunter methodology - Two hour training video from defcon by jhaddix
The Cyber Mentor's youtube channel some good info on getting started with Bug hunting here.
Here's a Capture the Flag challenge that basically teaches how to work your way around Linux.
Automate the Boring Stuff with Python
Black Hat Python: Python Programming for Hackers and Pentesters
Gray Hat Python: Python Programming for Hackers and Reverse Engineers
Beginning Ethical Hacking with Python
Defcon just released a ton of videos for their online SAFE MODE conference - some are shit, some are decent, find something that interests you and explore.
Nahamsec is another good conference that releases a bunch of decent videos
Null Byte on youtube - this dude releases very basic walkthrough tutorials on hacking concepts
open source intelligence tools and resources
Depending on how artsie you are, you may want to look into freelance work with aspiring game devs? /r/gameDevClassifieds/
Blender has a ton of tutorials on youtube.
Unity is free and there are a ton of free resources available.
Aren’t the working conditions for game developers pretty bad? Also it’ll take a while to make a portfolio and on top of that i generally detest video game aesthetics
Yes. IDK what these other posters are on about but doing any sort of work like this will pay very, very little and probably be very stressful and full of bullshit.
There's no point in getting into IT unless you get a normal job (which can be remote these days), because the whole attraction of an IT career is the stable job prospects.
Yes, remote stable job is the goal.
That's why I was suggesting freelance and that subreddit. You might be able to pull in some spare cash helping lone/small groups of devs out with some projects. But it doesn't sound like that's something that you'd be into.
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