Any former IT/security guys here who managed to leave these memetic fields and become developers? Every dev job I search for, even the most junior requires at least 1 year of experience.
I'm sick of IT and security. Been doing it for the past 4 years. Last year I enrolled in a java course and fell in love with the dev world. For the past 4 months I've been constantly self learning Android and Node.js in my little free time.
How do I break out of the IT/Cyber bubble and get a real creative job? I also wish to freelance in the future.
>>61834905
Go do some basic shit-work in webdev to build your portfolio and then apply for every job where you meet the educational/vocational requirements.
You never did security, it security isn't really security
If you're not finding your own 0 day you aren't doing security work
>>61834905
Apply anyways, you'll get an interview somewhere if your resume is decent.
If that doesn't work, try becoming a system administrator or getting into some other position that does actual development.
Development sucks, you'll just leave one meme for the other
>>61835099
Call it whatever you want. I did what I did and I had enough of it
>>61834905
As floaty as the word is, maybe try looking into devops for a transition?
I'm a nix admin who realized over the last two years that the the old sysadmin archetype is kind of weakening and earning potential correlates to development skills more and more.
I started picking up python and Ruby and have been getting a much higher volume of recruiter calls since they went on my publicly facing resume.
Buddy of mine (also sysadmin at the time ) left our company to a devops job a few months ago for a ~60% pay increase, then found another (full time and remote) position for another 30% on top of that.
He mostly writes code these days (like 90% of his workload) and he's happy as fuck.
>>61834905
What even is the IT field? I don't get it. I'm a C dev, and can do literally everything (and more) our sysadmin faggot can do, and better probably.
Is IT just being a poweruser?
>>61835354
IT is managing servers, security policies, Microsoft shit(like Active Directory), running virtual machine and managing storage, networking, and dealing with double digit IQ end users.
I don't like it.
>>61835354
It's for people too dumb to program, but want to act like they understand computers because they know how to install software
Put them in front of a debugger and they'll be completely lost
>>61835397
Your best bet is learn to code, complete some meme project, throw it on your res/git/whatever and start applying for junior developer jobs.
Your IT experience can be swung into a positive.."I wanted to learn more, expand my horizons with coding, etc etc."
You just have to apply first.