Trade school might be a better fit. Every company going through an AI revolution right now, so the corporate rules getting rewritten even for folks with a degree
6 Figures 6 Certs Random Thoughts Thread
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Yinny
Sweet and Sour Patch Mom
Agreed with PrnzHakeem, I'm in a role where you have to have a degree + market research background. But def unclear on the reality and market at large, AI is already a watershed - maybe SMBs have more flexibility with someone looking to learn.
Customer service/client type stuff may be an entry point to something else-all my companies required degrees for all the roles. Idk if they actually hire but PWC calls out that they don't require a degree.
Yinny
Sweet and Sour Patch Mom
It's sobering af how sudden and random my company lets people go - our main office admin was let go after 20 years, you be like huh?
A couple of people who were downsized last year still haven't found roles
A couple of people who were downsized last year still haven't found roles
Givethanks
Superstar
My boy just got notice of his job is getting dissolved in 3 months.
I've been telling my girl how we're so much closer to being homeless than being comfortable and she's just understanding now what I mean.
I work an entry tech position and my boss is telling me it's people with PHDs applying for my same role. It's tough out here.
I'm pushing her to move into a role/Feild where there's gonna be "job security" but it's not easy.
Yinny
Sweet and Sour Patch Mom
@phcitywarrior you somewhere studying intensely or did you get kidnapped?
SmoothOperator88
Your friendly neighborhood coli poster
16 months unemployed and counting
Today's one of those days where the anxiety's really getting to me. Trying to push through and do more applications though.
Exactly 17 months after I got laid off. I have received an offer same title and same comp as my last job!
Rhyme n Tekniq
Superstar
Not usually a trauma dump kinda person, usually a work through it silently type of person.
Been a rough 3 years on the personal tip
Lost my aunt(2022), my dad (2023), and just a week ago my mom who I was taking care of for the last year and a half before she went into hospice care.
(This is why I havent posted regularly in a long time.)
all my elders I was closest to are gone and i'm in a weird disillusioned place where life feels kind of unreal and chaotic; It's like a overwhelming sense of separation anxiety mixed with existential crisis, even though outwardly no one can tell. It's like a veil has been lifted and everything seems trivial and I also see most of my fam for who they really are, I swear they aint shyt.
finances are good, I'm thankful, but it hit me like a freight train that I've always lowkey hated doing IT infrastructure/Sysadmin work, and with my current company showing signs of decay due to new management, I suspect outright layoffs and attempts to drive people to quit are coming down the pike.
This is great time to pivot to something else tech adjacent. I'm sick of learning the insurmountable tech stacks , frameworks, studying for a gang of certs,.
Fukk all this shyt, It aint a phase. I've been through every type of burnout there is and this is it for me. I have enought broad experience to pivot into other areas.
My priorities at his point is to shift from WFH stateside to being 100% digital nomad on my expat shyt going forward. I need a change of scenery and new experiences while still making decent money and i'm getting closer to that goal. Not for vanity, but for sanity.
I need to get out of this dark place more than anything, I hate this fukking feeling. I've been a soldier up to this point, now the cracks are starting to show
Been a rough 3 years on the personal tip
Lost my aunt(2022), my dad (2023), and just a week ago my mom who I was taking care of for the last year and a half before she went into hospice care.
(This is why I havent posted regularly in a long time.)
all my elders I was closest to are gone and i'm in a weird disillusioned place where life feels kind of unreal and chaotic; It's like a overwhelming sense of separation anxiety mixed with existential crisis, even though outwardly no one can tell. It's like a veil has been lifted and everything seems trivial and I also see most of my fam for who they really are, I swear they aint shyt.
finances are good, I'm thankful, but it hit me like a freight train that I've always lowkey hated doing IT infrastructure/Sysadmin work, and with my current company showing signs of decay due to new management, I suspect outright layoffs and attempts to drive people to quit are coming down the pike.
This is great time to pivot to something else tech adjacent. I'm sick of learning the insurmountable tech stacks , frameworks, studying for a gang of certs,.
Fukk all this shyt, It aint a phase. I've been through every type of burnout there is and this is it for me. I have enought broad experience to pivot into other areas.
My priorities at his point is to shift from WFH stateside to being 100% digital nomad on my expat shyt going forward. I need a change of scenery and new experiences while still making decent money and i'm getting closer to that goal. Not for vanity, but for sanity.
I need to get out of this dark place more than anything, I hate this fukking feeling. I've been a soldier up to this point, now the cracks are starting to show