Hello boys and girls!
Ive been lucky enough to get hired on a small IT company without any prior experience in the field. Ive been working there for a year now and have had some great hands-on experience within active directory, windows server-environment, cisco, vmware and other great stuff.
However, I do feel its time for me to sort of “pick a path” and specialize within one specific job role. Im between 25-30 and feel like i should have started alot earlier, but since I dont have years and years of experience, id like to make up for that by studying hard (from home). My boss has told me its pretty much up to me what I want to do, he is going to support me as long as its helpful for the company and within what we do..
Im a bit torn in between what I should choose, and I feel i have to make that decision pretty quickly because the other guys at work are becoming better and better at what they do and Im just becoming “broader”, if you know what I mean..
I really do see that this is much or less a one in a million chance for me to do what I want with my career life, Im still very afraid to sort of pick the wrong path.
Doing lots of thinking about the matter, Ive come up with these two things:
* I need to enjoy what Im doing
* I dont want to pick a path in a job role that is being phased-out within the near future, if you know what I mean, but rather something that has great potential in the future.
* Salary isnt really that important.
These are a few things I can see that I would think is fun and that I would do well in, but Im still not sure:
* Windows Server Administrator
* Cisco Networking
* VMware specialist
Id also very much like to work with network security but I dont really have much experience about it, and also not really sure if my company would need a securtity expert.
So.. what am I to do? I could work with something else than these areas too, this is just what I have in mind right now so if someone have any suggestions id be happy to hear!
I know that no one but me can pick a carreer for me than myself, but Id very much like to hear from more experienced people what they would do in my situation.
Thanks for reading and please reply if you want to!