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I’ll keep it short with a summary of my short education, my work experience, and my current courses, but with the provided information I’m curious about what avenues I could pursue that I maybe haven’t thought of. It’s tough trying to think of a narrow topic, when there is so much to learn.High school I learned Visual Basic and loved creating programs.In my professional life, I spent a year doing PC repair where I learned a ton of A+ topics. Replaced iMac hard drives, learned to troubleshoot, etc.Then I spent 3 years as a communications technician installing and repairing residential networks. Doing everything from diagnosing plant problems to troubleshooting client devices like switches, modem/routers, and the users device. Learned tons about the internet and mainly cabling.From there, I was a commercial security technician where I installed Access security, video security, and much more including tampers for banks and vaults. We even did fire suppression monitoring.My last stop was working help desk for a UCaaS multi service provider. We sold and serviced everything from 8x8 to Zoom, to Ring Central. I was main contact point for multimillion dollar companies IT departments for when their main loops or backup loops went down. Here I learned everything about telephony; PSTN, PBX, VoIP, etcNow, I’m learning Python3 on Udemy. I’m learning Data Anaylsis with SQL and R through a Coursera Google Cert, and also studying for my A+.I can pass my A+ and I’m waiting till I have the funds to pay for the exams, and I’m halfway through both of the other courses.I’m excited to hit the ground running and get back into technology after spending the past 4 years as a salesman, selling everything from Real Estate to Insurance.I’m overwhelmed though. Seems like Data Analysis is a great route, but so does actual programming and developing programs. The only thing that doesn’t sound good is climbing 30ft ladders in the winter anymore.I’d love some feedback about where my current skills could take me, or further specialization recommendations like Network and Security +.Tech is all I think about anymore.
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