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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'd consider learning cloud. There are a lot of cheap certs for azure/aws.

You could also learn kubernetes, it's something you'll get paid quite well to be able to run for a company

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

What kind of technology did you work with while doing desktop support? If you like working with endpoints you could consider doing client platform engineering.

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