Entry level networking technician. You can get a bunch of useful Cisco certifications for free on their website. Try to get yourself an old switch from ebay to practice setting up a small network, vlans etc., and you've got a solid start.
Try to get yourself an old switch from ebay to practice setting up a small network, vlans etc., and you've got a solid start.
This is what (older) millenials had to do when they wanted to play video games with their friends, no broadband internet, we moved the computer, set up a lan. Good old time. But this is how 20-25 years latter, I have basic knowledge of network, and look at puzzled Gen Z kids when I tell them to set their IP adress and ping the hardware
My entire devops career started with writing stupid E2 programs in GMOD and hosting a private Minecraft server (IIRC it was Bukkit or something similar). This is the real pride and accomplishment.
I work in cybersecurity now, though I spent about 15 years in Systems Administration. I credit my career to my father buying a computer and letting me tinker with it. There were two factors that taught me a ton about computers:
Creating boot disks for games (this was back in the heyday of MS-DOS).
Realizing "oh shit, I had better fix this before dad gets home."
Nothing teaches how to work on computers quite like working on a computer. And much of that "working" is actually figuring out how to un-fuck the computer you just fucked up.
I see this as also a very future proof career. Even if businesses move the vast majority of their infrastructure to the cloud they’ll still have an on premises network presence.
I didn't use any video resources back when I got into it, so really couldn't tell, sorry. But I'm sure there will be some networking 101 courses on youtube.
I didn't use any video resources back when I got into it, so really couldn't tell, sorry. But I'm sure there will be some networking 101 courses on youtube.