I did it by job hopping damn near every other year to keep picking up new skills. And picked jobs based on exposure to new technology. Didn't really care about salary the first few years. Only what technology I would be working on to pad my resume.
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GollyImGully
Too many wavy women, gotta log outta IG
I would say specialize in a SaaS/PaaS application and master it. Take the certs for it and really understand how it works and functions, implementations, troubleshooting it, how it interacts with other tools etc.
When I say SaaS/PaaS im talking about applications/services like…
Workday
Jira
Splunk
Okta
Salesforce
It probably will be boring the roles up available to you but since money is your only goal, youd be specalized in a very specific skillset and can probably command more $$$. You will also be able to pick up contract roles for specific reqs. My last job we were hiring for a workday enginneer and it was hard finding them because most were asking for $160 and up salary wise. I did not take this route but I see it being done often.
pre pandemic - 9 to 5 mon to Fri
pandemic/WFH - the same but the amount of work i do varies day to day lol
Mirin4rmfar
Superstar
Either, I am simplifying this or terraform isn't really that hard. I am running through this course.
It is not that difficult. Basically, if you know what you want, you just go to the repo, copy and paste and add the details you want lol.
It is not that difficult. Basically, if you know what you want, you just go to the repo, copy and paste and add the details you want lol.
The Infrastructure as Code I've come across usually isn't that hard. Kubernetes YAML, Helm, Terraform, and a proprietary one we use. It tends to be a matter of doing it once or twice to understand the patterns. Lack of documentation (talking this proprietary shyt) is what makes it difficult.
1. Pad your resume and job titles. If you are a desktop tech change that to system administrator. If you reset AD passwords change that you’re enforcing security posture. shyt like that.
2. Get certs, either study for real or dump them…doesn’t matter honestly. It’s just a piece of paper and all of your competition in India is cheating anyway.
3. If your current job isn’t really consuming anything in the cloud, build out a free tier lab on AWS and play around in it every day for an hour or two. You might come out of pocket for some services but oh well. Then list on your resume that you have cloud experience.
You need just enough to fool the recruiters and HR to get past them and get you in front of hiring managers. And remember to apply to any and everything. It’s a numbers game. And the more interview experience you get the better. You can bomb the tech screening in some cases and still get hired because you are a “culture fit”. Once you’re in you’re good. I work with principal engineers in big tech who google everything….and I mean everything. So don’t worry about skills, in IT it’s easier than you think to fake it until you make it.
That’s really all there is to entry or junior positions these days, and those can easily net you 100k.
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Mirin4rmfar
Superstar
By CS, if you mean Cyber Security, you can get your CIPM, CIPP/US and CIPP/EU and deal with data privacy and laws which is huge. If that ;s a route you want to take.
I meant Computer Science (I'm so done with schooling), but this is much smarter, Appreciate it.
cartierhoe
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About a month into my internship, another month left. It's gone great so far and moving fast, my manager says the team likes me, and he's put in a good word for me with the intern academy folks so that's a good thing. I'm tryna see what that return offer looking like
I did the training and never scheduled the exam
