Hi. I'm considering switching back to this field after 15 years. I didn't have much experience to begin with, and never fully finished my degree. My dad always wanted me to get into the field to take over his companies. Things didn't go as planned.
I'm trying to get pointers on where to begin. I have chosen MANY fields I feel like I would be good at. I found some courses, training programs, etc but idk where to actually begin. It's still overwhelming.
I found this community because I found a post breaking stuff down, and then I lost it.
If you could point me into some posts I should read, links, whatever it would be greatly appreciated. If I need to post the fields I'm interested in, I can do that too.
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Hello :)
Welcome to dev.to. A good starting point is roadmap.sh and choose your favorite way/path of be an IT person.
Are you familiar with the roadmap... May I ask a few questions?
Yes, I have some experience with the roadmap... do your questions :) (plz: don't ask to ask, just ask)
Why does some have courses linked to it, but others don't?
I haven't finished it yet, but trying to compare some courses with certificates through coursera. I've heard the best about IBM and Google, they both have a few beginner courses but so far they interchangeable with the roadmap.
Thanks again so much, you sending me the roadmap has made half my stress dissappear with trying to find the correct courses.
In some cases, there is no course to be taken: for example, to use SES (AWS Email Service), there is no course because the implementation is part of another course. In other cases, the roadmap recommends seeing videos or reading an article to create the minimum knowledge about the topic, because it's a part of basic or general knowledge (for example in the design system roadmap there are many parts with only articles to read).
A few words before the end: if you see the getting started in the roadmap, please "don't get the tutorial hell"... try to create small and silly ideas about what you're reading or studying: the people fail if only see how other is programming or just watching videos =)
And more importantly: don't stress yourself if don't understand everything... be good at many things, but be better at 1 or 2 things :)
Welcome aboard 🎉
Extremely helpful! I'm trying not to stress, but this is a career change that scares me a bit. I'm not a huge creative person, but very good at critical thinking, communication, and hands on. I worry I may struggle with not being creative on creating my own ideas.
I will take all those articles into consideration and read them.
I'm narrowing down to data analyst first and then moving towards data scientist and AI. I've done data entry for many companies (15 years ago though) and been an officer administrator for 10 years. Taking previous knowledge and trying to add it into an IT field. It's been a long month reading articles, learning how IT field, searching jobs for qualifications. I think I'm officially ready to take the leap and sign up for my first course.
Thanks so much! Will check out now.