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There was a thread on something similar but I can’t seem to find it so I’m gonna ask again.

Looking for some advice in getting into IT. Any tips or pointers are much appreciated. I come from a design background and have spent the better part of the last decade doing that until I got laid off in September. Most of the jobs in that field are now contract work and have a great deal of marketing involved which I hate plus the field is competitive. I’m just trying to make some decent money while working the least amount as possible. I’m fortunate that I managed to have some cash through art sales that I’ll be alright for a few months. Might as well took to a better career path.

I’m going to try to do the a plus certificate this month but what are some other areas to look at? I hear good things about Cisco or net app

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

I second pisspissass's astute observation, IT largely became flooded back in the early 00's with all the certification bootcamps. It went from a field of self-taught nerds making pretty decent bank to low paying contract work. If you're looking to be a keyboard warrior you've gotta find a niche . I generally recommend people getting into some variants of pentesting and bugfinding; It'll give you a hacker mindset of always looking for holes to exploit, and realtalk, the mechanisms of capital's oppression are largely digital.

Here's a bunch of resources I've posted before:

jhaddix's bug hunter methodology - Two hour training video from defcon by jhaddix

The Cyber Mentor's youtube channel some good info on getting started with Bug hunting here.

Here's a Capture the Flag challenge that basically teaches how to work your way around Linux.

Automate the Boring Stuff with Python

Black Hat Python: Python Programming for Hackers and Pentesters

Gray Hat Python: Python Programming for Hackers and Reverse Engineers

Beginning Ethical Hacking with Python

Defcon just released a ton of videos for their online SAFE MODE conference - some are shit, some are decent, find something that interests you and explore.

Nahamsec is another good conference that releases a bunch of decent videos

Null Byte on youtube - this dude releases very basic walkthrough tutorials on hacking concepts

open source intelligence tools and resources

[-] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

Depending on how artsie you are, you may want to look into freelance work with aspiring game devs? /r/gameDevClassifieds/

Blender has a ton of tutorials on youtube.

Unity is free and there are a ton of free resources available.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago

Aren’t the working conditions for game developers pretty bad? Also it’ll take a while to make a portfolio and on top of that i generally detest video game aesthetics

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

That's why I was suggesting freelance and that subreddit. You might be able to pull in some spare cash helping lone/small groups of devs out with some projects. But it doesn't sound like that's something that you'd be into.

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