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human
Get the comptia A+

Work a helpdesk for a year to get experience, but dont waste time resetting passwords, ask to be put on projects. Projects are key to success and why I am where I am where other coworkers are still resetting passwords. Say a new netowork rack needed to be built out, Id volunteer, be pulled off the phones, and have a fun project to work on for a few weeks and I learned with my hands which is how i learn best.

Boom, after that I have real work networking experience worth far more than a cert think about it who would you hire someone that took a test or someone that built a functioning warehouse from a dude with a laptop sitting on a bucket to a fully operational network shipping 10 million in product a week?

Experience that easily leads to where I am: Patch management. I got alot of experience updating windows servers and this is the experience that got me the job today.

Other experience that tremendously helped me get into IT: Customer service, I had 10 years in over the phone customer service experience prior to IT and its helped me more than knowing how to do IT things. I like to say "Karens are my speciality" and it carried me a long way never having a bad call.
gpt
Do you need a bachelor degree for this