Pros: high pay, it’s easy to find hybrid work, every day there’s something new to learn, it feels nice to help people.
Cons: On-call rotation and sometimes long hours when SHTF (like the Crowdstrike fiasco last year)
I’d recommend picking a specialization early on and stick to it. Avoid cybersecurity, those folks get called after-hours all the time for security alerts that are usually false-positives. Azure devops or D365 are very much in-demand and easily pay 6 figures without needing a degree. Microsoft has free training on learn.microsoft.com and you can take the cert exams for a few hundred bucks.
Pros: high pay, it’s easy to find hybrid work, every day there’s something new to learn, it feels nice to help people.
Cons: On-call rotation and sometimes long hours when SHTF (like the Crowdstrike fiasco last year)
I’d recommend picking a specialization early on and stick to it. Avoid cybersecurity, those folks get called after-hours all the time for security alerts that are usually false-positives. Azure devops or D365 are very much in-demand and easily pay 6 figures without needing a degree. Microsoft has free training on learn.microsoft.com and you can take the cert exams for a few hundred bucks.