Hi everyone! I need some help. I’m in my mid-thirties, and I had a growing career that, since covid, has gotten so flaky I can’t properly provide for my family anymore. I have always been interested in tech, and would like to start a career but I’m not sure how to.

Can anyone in the field give me some advice? I don’t have much college experience, only did 1 year 17/18 years ago. Looks like I need some sort of college degree, which I’m fine with.

I also saw some online “bootcamp” things… are they good? I would like to do something where I was helping companies be protected from hackers and work from home as much as possible. White hat hacker type of thing… if that’s real!

Thank you everyone!

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    1 year ago

    Get your hands on some used computers, and maybe an 8-16 port switch, then dive into the world of home lab! Setup your own servers and network stacks. Deploy services, containers etc.

    Hell, you’d be surprised at how involved setting up a headless Linux Minecraft server can be if You’ve never done it. Little projects add up to a lot of hands on experience you just don’t get from a book.