What's an IT profession that is realistically possible to self-study for and become proficient enough in to get employed within a year?

SurpriZe@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 148 points –

By employed I mean get a job in the industry either offline or online. Ideally something that would highly likely remain in-demand in the near future.

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Sure as hell wouldn't know what port forwarding is if it wasn't for playing lan games online

My entire devops career started with writing stupid E2 programs in GMOD and hosting a private Minecraft server (IIRC it was Bukkit or something similar). This is the real pride and accomplishment.

I work in cybersecurity now, though I spent about 15 years in Systems Administration. I credit my career to my father buying a computer and letting me tinker with it. There were two factors that taught me a ton about computers:

  1. Creating boot disks for games (this was back in the heyday of MS-DOS).
  2. Realizing "oh shit, I had better fix this before dad gets home."

Nothing teaches how to work on computers quite like working on a computer. And much of that "working" is actually figuring out how to un-fuck the computer you just fucked up.

The last part is a gem I will forever love.
Nothing quite like the oh fuck.

The job equivalent for the customer is us saying "That's unusual" :)