Hi everyone, I am a 17 year old currently in Austria. I am planning to start an Apprenticeship starting probably September this year or September next year (depends if I get a place as soon as possible). I am really confused on which field to have a career in, I am quite flexible in options, I’m not stuck in a specific fields so any advice is welcome. I really need a path to follow, even if it’s a vague one, what important to me is that the career is flexible in terms of changing jobs, maybe changing expertise too (not that important) and the most important thing is that the jobs are location flexible. Timings and pay aren’t a big deal to me, as long as they don’t give me a burnout even on weekends I don’t have any time left that type stuff is just not what I want. For the pay part, as long as it’s decent enough to survive with a few bucks saved it’s all good.
After the Apprenticeship, I also plan on doing a major in something if that helps my career. Please give practical advice on what can I do, for that reason I have also mentioned my country.
If you are asking about a career in tech: I always recommend to follow what interest you most: Planning, creating or operating software? There are a number of jobs in between.
With examples:
Creating: Developer for web, apps, cloud, mobile, AI
Creating and Operating: DevOps, DevSecOps, Site Reliability Engineer
Operating: Administrators, cyber security, cloud engineer, AI operations & infrastructure, network engineer on site
Planning and Consulting: Software architect, cloud solutions architect
I would include AI in any of the paths, there’s already high demand that will only grow. If training models isn’t yours, we will need plenty of specialist for AI infrastructure and operations.
Once you have found a path, you can plan it out.
Best of luck
I do have a rough idea that I wanna go into Cybersecurity-AI type direction. But, right now there are a few problems I am facing in the way with my school certification recognition but, I hope it would be solved. I am particularly interested in Cybersecurity due to vast roles in remote work. But, most resources say the market in general for software isn’t the best but I am talking 5 or 6 years later. How will the market look like then? will there be more remote roles?
Hard to predict what the market will look like even in five years from now. My belief: If you want to work in tech, no matter what, because you love the field (I’m such a case), you will find your spot.
Cyber security is an more of an operations/ infrastructure role. Unless you are writing antivirus software, but for the majority it’s protecting networks and servers. The operations side of the tech business has never seen the hype software development did. We are the people in the background that only get noticed when things go wrong.
It’s a good idea to start as a system administrator before going into security. You will have a better idea of what you protect later on. You will be ahead of the competition that only has certifications.
As you’re just starting your career and you’re in western EU; I would suggest below fields
AI/ML
Humanoid Robots
Private Space companies
Do checkout top VC websites in western EU and kind of job openings they have.
Just this week I saw got to know about this startup in Switzerland “nunu ai is building the first multimodal agent to test and play games. We infuse AI agents into the game development process, starting at QA all the way to player simulation.”
These are like Matrix movie agents, which will do your tasks.
I was into gaming industry ( Disney ) from 2010 - 2013 mid, we had a big QA team of 50+ engineers in India.
The scary part is that; if just few AI agents could taken over 50+ people’s job, what’s about other fields ?
@anavikin just this week, I had to visit hospital to meet one of our relatives.
I was discussing with my wife about quality of hospital for 1.5+ billion people of India
Same day, I came across this interesting startup from Charite hospital, called aignostics
Do google “aignostics charite”, “charite hospital sponsored AI project”
I’m into IT since 2002, but after some years; you wish to work on projects which not only get your monthly paycheck but does something good for society as well.
Tech fields like software development, digital marketing, or UX/UI design could be great. They offer remote work opportunities and allow for easy transitions into different roles. Apprenticeships in IT or digital fields are in demand and can give you a solid foundation.
Do you think an apprenticeship in Application Dev is better for future opportunities. Since, it is my first apprenticeship I have to choose between Sys Admin and Application Dev. The main reason I am interested in cyber security is because of it’s vast demand, popular remote jobs, high pay in the future and I’ve heard it’s plenty in demand.