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What can a senior desktop support tech do who is burned out? (lemmy.goblackcat.com)

submitted 1 year ago by ablackcatstail@lemmy.goblackcat.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I am wondering what kind of career moves I have available to me because I am over the bullshit of desktop support. I have been brushing up on my Linux skills, learning docker, and doing a whole bunch of networking-related things. At this point, I am 46 years old. Would it benefit me to go back to school to learn a skill to help me advance beyond this role? I just don't know what to do. There are many options, none of them truly low cost and all of them involving a significant amount of risk.

I get that there is no avoiding risk when making a career change so late in life. I was looking at training for Java or Oracle and it isn't cheap. Maybe given my experience I could teach A+ or Network+? I don't know. I'll welcome any ideas right now.

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[–] 8565@lemmy.quad442.com 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I left a Factory IT Admin job and honestly after factoring in my free housing only make 1k less a year than I did in IT. but, I left March 2020 and the factory didn't survive COVID. Glad I jumped that ship

[–] Elegast@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's interesting. How did you come about finding the job? I've done IT my whole life and wouldn't even know what to look for if not IT.

[–] 8565@lemmy.quad442.com 1 points 1 year ago

It's from the community I grew up in (1 mile from my dad's house where I grew up) so it was posted in a community FB page