Start Your IT Career in 2025 or nah?

Is IT a good career choice in 2024 and into 2025? Lets address some of the biggest concerns you might have.
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[@reinen9006]

It's so discouraging to continue learning when seeing layoff headlines all the time, comments such as "cyber is not a entry level", "tech job market bad", "Ai is taking all these jobs anyway". I needed a kick

[@Itcareerquestions]

Keep your head up brother, you’ve got this!

[@MalikFumblesalot]

Completely agree. I got laid off from a government contractor 2 months ago and have not been able to land a new role yet. Roughly 30-40 applications and maybe received 5-10 rejection letters. Crickets everywhere else. Current certs= MTA, CWNP CWS, Sec+. I'm getting frustrated.

[@ngkngk875]

AI stands for Actually Indian

[@dan-cj1rr]

get good and a degree, no one care about your youtube learning

[@Thisguy88191]

*CyberSecurity* not cyber, which is true because you need to know how it works in the first place in order to protect and secure it.

[@ligdjumvidja8294]

I started my journey with watching one of your videos and I am still following up. Thanks for good respectable estimations and advices Zach.

[@majgetcash]

Video came at the perfect time thank you 👌🏾

[@Itcareerquestions]

You are so welcome, good luck to you!

[@lawrencek12799]

Thank you for this video I needed it. Going back this summer to finish my degree in cybersecurity/ IT. Most of the talk is negative about the job market and I needed this positivity

[@Theftex]

Graduated in 2022 with my IT degree and still cant find a job because employers want IT experience and I got none to show other than school projects. Cant get an internship either because employers want students, not recent grads >.> its rough out here but nothing else to do but keep staying up to date with IT software and applying I suppose. Grats on the weight loss by the way!

[@javiersaenz1040]

Your job was given to indian with HB1 visa

[@Itcareerquestions]

Build a home lab and create projects, document them, blog them, share what you learned as LinkedIn articles. Start showing verifiable examples of experience. Build an Active Directory home lab, learn about AD and ticketing systems...if you're interested in cybersecurity take this lab a step further and learn how you can compromise that lab to gain administrator access like a hacker would - and document that! then share what you learned as a blog or article on linkedin or share that as a comment on someone else's post. Get yourself out there.

[@geffestime5238]

Try a school district.

[@TheGunnyBadger03xx]

Zach, I'm here after watching one of your videos from a few years back. I just wanted to say how happy I am for you for your journey in IT, KZbin, and your health. Keep kicking @ss, dude!

[@pixie3013]

Thank you for this. This really helped me because hearing about the tech layoffs every week is very discouraging. Also, thank you for the information that cybersecurity is the way to go, now.

[@ThatGuyAlon]

I have a IT degree and the CompTIA Sec+ and I cant even get a call back for a basic help desk role. I plan on getting an AWS Cert next. Its definitely tough out here

[@TechDup]

I'm in the same boat here. But pursuing a different cert now.

[@Itcareerquestions]

If you aren't getting calls back it's more than likely a resume issue. Check out this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3bZnImIgJybrck

[@slevinhyde3212]

That's probably a US-centric problem. Here in france I just have switched carreer, and at a very beginner level I can get heldesk roles. But to get higher the gap is big.

[@kiwifrenchie6036]

No way really?

[@masterelf12]

Graduated back in late 2022 and got my first IT job then. Got laid off in the summer of '23 and I have been stuck in returning to security guard ever since. I have looking openings and NO ONE IS HIRING

[@Itcareerquestions]

Networking will be your best friend. LinkedIn is great for this.

[@mememan9890]

Bro you lost so much weight! Good for you!

[@joeblobyisme3708]

Hey bro. Great content thanks for the info. Is it possible to get project ares? Or can you make a video on the steps to get in. Thanks. Cyas. Do I have to be a student to get in? Or do they have individual programs? Or I guess if I wanted the ares experience I need to download team nite 4 or whatever it’s called.

[@Itcareerquestions]

Man, I'm honestly not sure, I haven't worked with Circadence in years, I'm not even sure they have it available any longer. Nite Team 4 is a great alternative and so is Haiku haikuinc.io/products/haiku-online

[@marcusmcdow3]

Honestly its hard to find a job in any where with any job title no matter what it is. So it aint just tech its everywhere. So I wouldnt feel discourage I would keep pushing thats what Im doing.

[@javiersaenz1040]

Companies rather hired indians with HB1 visas over Americans because it's cheap labor

[@markben53728]

Everyone and their momma now wants to work in tech not because passion but for paycheck

[@Itcareerquestions]

Yeah that's not always what it cracks up to be. But for some people it works, I suppose.

[@JD-vj4go]

I have worked in tech since 1994. 99 percent of the folks I've worked with did it for a paycheck not passion. The passion thing is something the managers and investors came up with to get free labor out of tech workers. It was and always will be BS.

[@nathanielplacide4119]

I would still definitely encourage anyone it to get an education if you’re going to pursue IT careers they’re starting to have more barriers to entry, in particular requiring a bachelors degree. Help desk and call center jobs are going to be the first to go and these are typically entry roles, even those might have chat bots at the level 1, any escalation could go to level 2. I’m in school and an intern, not in the position to give the best advice so take it with a grain of salt. Location, networking, internships, and adapting. There’s still a huge demand for workers physically and socially, in most cases AI will only be tools for people in those positions, similar to how Microsoft word, excel, the Internet, WiFi, and cheaper technology did revolutionized the workforce.

[@Ace-rr2tq]

Upload more videos, please.

[@geffestime5238]

For those trying to land their first IT job, I think school district jobs are the easiest to get. They may not pay well, but at least you can put that on your resume to show at least you have 1 or 2 years under your belt then you leave.

[@addacdd]

I wouldn't say easiest. I have a IT degree and had 6 months experience and could not land a IT entry help desk at my local school district K-12. I took their exam passed it and then went into a round table interview. I did this twice before covid and during covid. The competition was still fierce as it is today. I believe a few Sr. Devs who were laid off dropped down to entey IT help desk and applied then got the job.

[@user-ql5jk2bt9c]

The market sucks, but you can do it. It's also important to be honest with yourself: are you just doing this for the $$$ (not that entry-level IT job pay well in general but who knows), or are you actually passionate about tech, troubleshooting, hardware, software, etc.? Also, it's significantly WORSE in programming. You have hundreds and hundreds of people with B.S in computer science, others with years of experience as programmers, who can't get a job! I think IT is still a much easier field in tech to break into. Good luck!

[@marcusmcdow3]

So should I just go head and get the security + first or go for A+ first?

[@davidrose2899]

A+

[@manhoosnick]

8:15 , ok but how can I use AI to learn about IT and AI?

[@Itcareerquestions]

Ask it to break down any questions you have, explain things further, ask it to give you sample questions about specific topics, ask it to give you example projects in a specific topic, there are many possibilities. If you're studying for a certification, upload the syllabus from the certification and ask it to create sample questions, flash cards, example lab scenarios. I could keep going, it's a great tool to help you learn.

[@manhoosnick]

@@Itcareerquestions thanks a lot

[@TheBlader2720]

I'm graduating this month, and I regret going to university.

[@Itcareerquestions]

Having a degree will always give you an advantage. There are still SO many positions that require a degree. You will be fine, good luck!!!

[@achillesserrano4746]

Ai is so inconsistent it won't take our jobs anytime soon. Hey google what is this, and it gives you something other than.. you have to figure out what is resourceful .

[@Itcareerquestions]

For sure!

[@Cyber-Eddy]

Can you please show me how to hack this economy?

[@TruckerTay]

I.T doesn’t even make that much

[@mato_fato_ma-ah-fala-falafel]

Wasn’t there a recent video about if AI was taking over jobs. And your stance was that it wasn’t. Yeah I thought that was a stupid video too. Unlike the past, AI doesn’t allow employees to retrain and adapt as it displaces millions of workers lightening fast.

[@bobanmilisavljevic7857]

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