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.
When I got burnt out I did a hard turn. I now manage a Turkey Farm and just do IT on the side. Most relaxing decision I’ve ever made
Users are definitely harder to train than turkeys
And it is more discouraged to kill and eat the users when they get out of line.
And they taste worse. Farmhands are also hard to train maybe worse than users
Users are so hard. Turkeys you just have to find any way they may kill themselves and fix it before they do
That’s pretty cool actually. Wish I were in a position to do something similar but I need my next step to parlay with the base skill set I already have.
If your under 39 and in decent enough shape (and US based) the Space Force is looking for recruits and has plenty of IT jobs available. When I’m ready to get back in to the service that is my plan currently
LOLOLOLO! I am 46, suffer from bipolar disorder, PTSD, and autism. I cannot even qualify for a security clearance, much less go to Space Force. But that much said, I appreciate you reaching out to me. Thanks.
Hey just trying to offer options lol.
And I truly appreciate it. Thank you. 👍
I know how getting burnt out feels. It’s a rough world out there
Good god hell yeah it is.
I thought they were only recruiting from the AF, did they recently open it up more?
They never were only recruiting from the air force. They were pulling out of the Army as well. But, for at least the last couple years they have been doing public recruiting as well
Picking something that doesn’t take much prior skill is a very good way out. (Not saying you necessarily should) but, it’s very easy. The Farm even provides me with housing and paid me to move so it worked out very well
Man that’s a jump. My issue is leaving the fairly good pay. But I think it’s going to need to happen soon.
I left a Factory IT Admin job and honestly after factoring in my free housing only make 1k less a year than I did in IT. but, I left March 2020 and the factory didn’t survive COVID. Glad I jumped that ship
That’s interesting. How did you come about finding the job? I’ve done IT my whole life and wouldn’t even know what to look for if not IT.
It’s from the community I grew up in (1 mile from my dad’s house where I grew up) so it was posted in a community FB page
wouldn’t you know it, look who i found…
Yeah man I’m here lol weird seeing other JB guys out and about
the beauty of federation, you’ll find us in the weirdest places XD
good to see you, keep on carrying on friend
I’m impressed. To me, managing a Turkey Farm sounds like a lot of work and potentially stress. Isn’t it?
Almost no stress at all. I have like 1 or two deadlines a month (load out and baby bird arrival) we have 40k birds handled between me and a part time farmhand. Everyday is as easy as walking through barns and picking up dead followed by yard work and maintenance. And once a month I run a litter machine through one of 3 finishers to keep the barns clean. Other than that it’s just monitoring bird health which after you get used to it is easy. Most important thing is to keep the birds healthy, comfortable and happy
keeping them healthy, comfortable and happy until their throats are slit 🥰