Advice for starting IT

[Net3]

Does anyone do any consultancies here, or work as a freelancer online? 

What are you experiences getting to there, what exactly are you doing if you had to summarise it that earns you money? 

 

Market is oversaturated, but never oversaturated with great minds. When should someone who is exploring topics and learning and putting knowledge to practice, be actually confident enough and put themselves out there and ask for money in exchange for services and what should they be actually doing that earns money - primarily online if possible. It's difficult for someone like me to get a job because of unfinished degree and I'd have to supplement that with certifications. 

 

What kind of projects at home or with some other people can someone do to get somewhat established and can be proud to show - like a project perhaps, something that is actually useful today. 

Any guidelines from people who have been in those shoes and faced some kind of adversity of pushing forward in IT.

 

I am learning like everyone else, my mind wonders to different topics and interests, i always think if something can be useful to me then is marketable, but the more i dig, the more discouraged I get about everything. There are people with tons of experience, way better probably than i will ever be, so just doing anything makes me feel like im not worthy of doing it at all, and it's really a bad mentality and approach to be had. 

 

My question would be; what do you do that others seek from you for your services or what kind of services are you offering to people or businesses that would want to hire you for exchange for your knowledge and skills? What are the things they seek from you and how do you stay confident in your skills and how do you perceive your work - "is what i'm doing worth doing and is it worth continuing?" 

 

What is or are you anchors of last stand when you get mentally exhausted? 

 

Perhaps some might want to ask what are my interests and I'd say, I'm looking at VPNs, DNSs, Linux, LLMs, programming when necessary, networking obviously and the rest that falls into such sub categories, but im not good at anything quite yet, still struggeling with many concepts that i have to untangle for myself. I'm always self critical and programming for me - since it is a big part of IT world - never got me thinking "i cant wait to start programming" if anything i always tried to avoid it. I'd like for brutally honest comments that have some ground to it, thanks.

 

How do you make everything more fun and bearable if you are in it - alone? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[saintlouisbagels]

Not 100% related but this thread had some great replies

 

[SinistralFern23]

I'm confused as to what this post is actually asking compared to the title.

[Basix]

What IT are you referring to exactly? I can count at least ten separate position at my company which handles IT, and the path you should follow varies a lot by what are you looking for.