go on udemy and take some courses there and get your cloud certificates(I did Microsoft Azure). You can get work experience on volunteermatch.org

dam

this but
programming is not for everyone and there are many other fields in IT that do not need it, in case you are still passionate about computers and stuff but not about coding

Depends on what industry you want to be in. Like others said, learning how to code would be big and it wouldn't be necessary to go to uni for that.

Acquire skills through training or education or hone your skills at your current job
work on your resume
Apply to good jobs
Alternatively volunteer and network, meet new people make new connections

yea I was thinking IT is my best bet, anyone know if those Google courses actually lead to job placement?

Become a traveling nurse

that’s back to school gangy. plus nursing is 2-3 years I believe

Hit the gym and become a professional wrestler

Get that comptia certification

Yea,an RN traveling nurse could be a decent gig if that’s what you wanna do. The job itself has kinda become a meme tho cause a lot of traveling nurses will have you believe they make no less then 6 figures every job lol. I think an RN can make a nice living wage tho,it just depends on how frequent you get jobs and what not.

been seeing that WGU (wgu.edu) is a pretty damn decent online school for IT, so that's prob worth looking into if you wanna go in that direction. school can/will definitely help, even just to get past HR, but it's not like you absolutely need it.

some good, basic certs for IT would be A+ (if you don't have any experience), Network+/CCNA, and Security+. might be worth shooting for a help desk position, work that for 6-12 months while studying for certs, then just bounce when you find something you have more interest in/specialized.

as a (very new) security a***yst, i can tell you that it's a very good field.

I’m 23 and terrified to turn 30

Sell weed

I needed to hear this today I’ve only worked random jobs through indeed and just hope one will work out my only experience is warehouses and restaurants but I want a good “real” job that pays

buy and sell pictures of monkeys

That year is around the corner for me

in a couple months I go 27

Men level up until we die. It’s your choice to peak early

A couple years younger than OP & this gave me hope

Thanks for this

@op got me scared boutta be 20 in 12 days

I made my shift towards my career by 25. You just have to know what you want and plan ahead.

If you wanna get into CyberSec get first Cisco CCNA and LPIC 1 and 2, also when you learn for this certs try to get a Help Desk Job and after earning them try to get a better pay better position. After you get these 3 certs do either Cisco CCNP or CompTIA Security+, after those if you going for big racks do OSCP or CEH(this s*** hard as f***).
Bonus: Learn how to code that will help alot if you wanna do CyberSec (Python and JavaScript mostly)