Welcome to the forum.

IT admin intrigues me. What did that job have you doing? Software maintenance, hardware maintenance, clients servers, network, etc?

Thanks! My job included most of what you named, hardware & software maintenance/config, email server and client maint/config, network hardware maint/config, firewall administration. Pretty much anything related to my employer's tech needs, minus writing software. I was pretty much the grunt in the IT Department

I'm still in college to hopefully find myself doing that some day. In the meantime I buy and play with equipment for personal projects.

Running network cable, terminating cable.

10Gbit fiberoptics (SFP+ NICs)

Setting up managed switches, vlans.

Building and configuring Linux based file servers (setting up pools, network services, remote access, etc.

Currently looking into making a linux based VM server for hosting numerous projects.

Various other things that I can't remember off the top of my head.

Most of this I had to teach myself. My college barely touches on any of it but to get the job I have to have the degree.

Good luck to you! There's plenty of demand for it these days. I left my last IT position almost ten years ago, so I've certainly forgotten quite a bit. You know what they say... if you don't use it ya lose it. Just by your verbiage, I can tell that you've definitely got more skill than I ever had. Keep it up!