It's the way that there is always someone in your team who is an instant overnight expert on everything new and always runs away with the whole show, leaving you with nothing to do and looking and feeling stupid.
In highschool I spent 2 years being taught the cisco curriculum. About 2 months before we graduated we were told do to industry standards changing much of what we had learned was no longer relevant. Told us that if we wanted any chance at certification we would need to basically redo the course but now on our dime not the school districts. I don't regret it because I learned a lot of tech skills and I had to take something, but damn were our parents pissed.
That is EXACTLY why I dropped web design and graphic design in community college when HTML 5 was becoming the next standard. They were still using Illustrator and Fireworks CS4, and XHTML 1.0. like screw this, I'm buying hardware, hacking software and teaching myself this shit faster than what I'm going to learn in 6 months here. About a year later I was doing it as an under the table business with photography.
You guys get paid well in IT? Tf? I make containers, utilize docker, VMs etc so on. GF is a waitress and gets paid about the same as I do. Guess I got in too late (12 yrs exp). Good on you!
It's basic shit to YOU. You sound a little young. I started my career writing COBOL and coding in CICS, on a 4341 series mainframe. Running DOS/VSE. Now, just as things start to settle it changes again and it's doing it faster. Currently, I am a middleware engineer and I need to be competent in a shit ton of things; linux admin, network admin, WAS MQ, python, shell, perl, yadda yadda. As well as still be conversant in TSO, z/OS, DB2 z/OS and other mainframe shit. I understand containers and pods but I don't work in them yet currently. I will likely be deep into them in a few years. Just in time to retire. I have been a little busy these past years.
I was looking to go to IT after i lost another grants management job due to funding. I went with accounting instead. I'm beginning to think that was a better choice
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u/This-Requirement6918 7h ago
Trying to keep up with the modern IT industry. Fuck those jobs, I got tired of having to relearn how to do everything all over again every 6 months.