Certifications certifications certifications. Get your A+ or net+, apply for shitty remote help desk jobs like support.com. They will suck and you’ll get back to back calls, but keep your ears to the ground and a few months experience should be all you need to hop to something else. A lot of places are desperate for competent techs. Degrees don’t prove anything, I’m fact it seems like kids are graduating with these technical degrees and zero actual practical knowledge.
Source: My decade long IT career off just an associates degree.
I vouch for that. That’s how it is done. Good job laying down the steps; want to add that job hopping is important too early on.
- Get a phone help support job 1.5. Keep applying to get other better paying support job, within or outside the company
- Work in parallel getting trained and certified in A+ etc 2.5. Keep applying to get other better paying support job
- Get more certificates 3.5 Keep applying to other jobs of interest and desired pay
- Repeat step 3.5 until retirement.
I can confirm this. I was able to get a decent job right out of highschool with my certs I got at a technical college. Really as long as you can prove that you’re a fast learner, passionate about tech, and have the skillet to back it up it’s not hard to find a job. In my experience at least, which to be fair is only 6 years
