Good afternoon,
I am writing to ask for advice about starting a career in IT.
I am currently choosing a direction to study seriously. I plan to spend about one year learning one IT field and then try to get my first job in the industry.
Right now, I am considering three options:
I do not have any IT experience yet, so I want to choose carefully. I am trying to understand which field is the most realistic for beginners and where it is possible to get a junior job after about one year of study.
I am also improving my English. My current level is A2, and I want to reach B2 within a year. In the future, I am mainly interested in working in Europe or remotely. I currently live in Lithuania, Vilnius.
It would be very helpful to hear your opinion on:
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which IT direction is best for beginners today
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where there is higher demand for junior specialists
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which path you would recommend for someone starting from zero
Thank you very much for your time and help.
Welcome to the forum!
I can speak for the IT-infrastruture side of the business, maybe that’s your cup of tea:
Cloud/DevOps Engineer with Infrastructure as Code (IaC):
You will help companies migrate and run their infrastructure in the cloud or as a hybrid model (onsite + cloud), as well as help manage and secure access and data.
Another important aspect is integration and management of AI-tools,
which already run big parts of the current enterprise infrastructure.
A possible learning path is through
Microsoft (AZ-900 and AZ-104) + HashiCorp (Terraform) + fCC (Python).
The formula is
Cloud + IaC + Python,
you can for example replace Microsoft with AWS.
With this training and a good portfolio (small secure and automated infrastructures built with IaC-scripts) you can start applying for DevOps and Cloud engineer jobs.
This is a career if you like to run and automate IT, the software engineers in our forum can help you with the backend dev path.
Solution architecture and cybersec are harder to land a job in as a newcomer.
Best Regards
Thank you for the response! This is very useful information.
Happy to help.
After revisiting my reply I want to add two things.
New formula
Cloud + IaC + Python + CI/CD + Container
CI/CD best learnt over Github Actions, container through Docker.
Portfolio examples: Classic 3-Tier architecture (proxy + web + database), serverless app (storage + CDN + API gateway), 3-tier architecture with autoscaling (load balancer + auto scaling group + storage).
Load them up to AWS/Azure/Hetzner or else with your IaC, document the running architecture with screenshots and destroy it again. The documentation with your scripts and images is your portfolio piece.
Don’t leave it up and running, even a basic 3-tier infrastructure can be
20+ $/month. You have to keep an eye on your wallet in the cloud.
Best Regards