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What career path would this be without having to go to college?
gpt
\*Nothing against anyone who sought higher education, I didn't have the scores to get into my safety school but I am proof that anyone can learn IT.\*  


Fuck college. I got my start repairing phones, that had enough mesh to go into call center work. After enough of that, find an internal IT job. From there, work your way into a trainer role or something that just requires maintenance.

1. Learn hardware any way you can, become the expert at standard computer usage.
2. If you can, find a call center position to build onto those standard computer skills, those are the people you'll be helping. They're stupid and they suck, but office workers build job security.
3. From their, you've got enough industry knowledge to find a contract support role or an internal IT role. This is a forked path though, internal means building a rapport with your bosses and becoming trust worthy. Contract roles are high pay, low benefit and usually end after 3-6 months, some will be a goldmine and be contract to hire. I separate them because internal IT roles have a low margin for error, contract roles are more "if you fuck up, you're just a contractor and that has no bearing on your next job for the most part as long as you word it correctly."
4. After you've accumulated enough knowledge, you can train people if you like to teach. You'd kind of have to in order to survive step 2.

I am currently on step 4, working from home and making about $75k, I lucked out with my company in that they're still behaving like a startup, zero micro management and yearly pay increases.