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What can a senior desktop support tech do who is burned out? (lemmy.goblackcat.com)

submitted 1 year ago by ablackcatstail@lemmy.goblackcat.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I am wondering what kind of career moves I have available to me because I am over the bullshit of desktop support. I have been brushing up on my Linux skills, learning docker, and doing a whole bunch of networking-related things. At this point, I am 46 years old. Would it benefit me to go back to school to learn a skill to help me advance beyond this role? I just don't know what to do. There are many options, none of them truly low cost and all of them involving a significant amount of risk.

I get that there is no avoiding risk when making a career change so late in life. I was looking at training for Java or Oracle and it isn't cheap. Maybe given my experience I could teach A+ or Network+? I don't know. I'll welcome any ideas right now.

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[–] simple@lemmy.mywire.xyz 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

QA work has a fairly low barrier of entry, and from there I've known a few people who moved from QA into Developer roles. So there's that route.

[–] ablackcatstail@lemmy.goblackcat.com 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay, that sounds promising. By QA I believe you mean software QA, right?

[–] simple@lemmy.mywire.xyz 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, correct

Different companies have different requirements, but generally if you know a bit of SQL and a bit of Linux terminal commands you should be good. Maybe have a browse through a testing framework like Selenium, though frameworks would vary depending on what the company does, so don't fret too much about that.

[–] bumbo_jumbo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Playwright is another good testing framework to lean

[–] ivenoidea@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Can confirm, have taught a lot of QA people coding and got them into developer roles.