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[DarkPot]

What jobs would I be able to go into that would use these elements?

[smo]

i dont know if i fully understand the question, what elements are you talking about? i assume that you mean hacking/coding skills and in that case there is a plethora of possible professions that you could get into and make shit loads of money, for example my sisters boyfriend/fiance is currently a systems architect at a cloud computing company that host servers for major businesses like cox and at&t and they host private servers also, anyways he works from home for only a few hours a day writing scripts in bash and perl and troubleshooting the servers, basically he sits on the couch and casually codes while he plays Call of Duty and WoW, he started out hacking and now he makes 6 figures doing close to nothing, by the way he is only 21, he used to be the systems architect for Scale Matrix (google it) the point of this whole story is to let you know that in the world of scripting and programming there are endless possibilities as long as you put work into it, dont do it if you dont enjoy it though


if too long and you dont feel like reading all that: there are endless possibilities, google it

[DarkPot]

I read the whole thing and thanks. It's because Im 15 and really interested into scripting and the everything else just dont know exactly what kind of job titles out there that actually incorporate these things.

[Satan911]

I'm a software engineer. I code programs and scripts but more importantly design software architecture.

[smo]

figure out exactly what it is you would like to do and google it to see what jobs incorporate your interests, i read your introduction and you said that you would like to learn, i would suggest learning bash and python and working up from there (i like perl too but you dont have to learn that if you dont care about it) google has a class on python here if you look on the left sidebar there are links to video lectures on youtube, there are a bit long and boring so i would suggest taking it in chunks, as for learning bash my best advice is to go to your local bookstore and buying an O'Reilly book on it, also you should learn linux if you havent already

[DarkPot]

I actually started to learn some stuff on python and so I'll continue to do that because as far as I  can see everyone is saying that it is the simplest. And I really have no knowledge of linux, all I know is that it's a OS.

[Z3R0]

I'm a network engineer, so I configure and troubleshoot switches and routers, create new lan segments, I do voip installs (cisco, not vonage). I maintain ACL's, etc. I have a long list of responsibilities, but I'm part of a really good team.

From my perspective, I see three main functional areas of IT:
-Architecture (network, security, servers, engineering, etc).
-Applications/Services (web, products, customer support, etc).
-Plans/Management (projects, policy-making, finances, stupid shit like that).

Any job you will ever want to look for when it comes to IT will most likely fall under one of those three areas. What you want to do really depends on where you think you would fit in best. If you see yourself as more of the programmer/server admin type you will probably fall under the Architecture category. If you see yourself being a sales guy/customer support, you'll probably fall under the Applications/Services category. If you see yourself being a manager/supervisor you'll be in the Plans/Management area. There are also odd-ball jobs that fall under all three, such as penetration testers/forensics and response. It's really all about what you love to do.

[techb]

And if you get into IT, KEEP AN ENGINEERING JOURNAL. Log all your trouble shooting, what the problem was, and how you fixed it. Trust me, it will come in handy. And will give a reference point for any new guy.

[DarkPot]

Thanks a lot guys. Really showed me what there is and isnt so fuzzy now. Im thinking probably software engineer. I like the idea of making programs.

[Kulverstukas]

I'm planning to take up network engineering this year, depends on how I pass the math exam, and if I ever get in

[Deque]

I am just saying this, because it wasn't mentioned yet, but research and teaching are possible fields too. If you work at a university you can do even both.

Research is a very interesting field imho. You have to know how to write your stuff (papers, articles), you need some love for theory. Especially in computer science there is a lot of interdisciplinary research. So if you, i.e. love Biology too, go into DNA-Computing. If you like anthropology you might help digitalizing bone scans. If you are interested in medicine, you can create models that help to understand the workings of the brain. You can also write software that analyses MRI pictures.
(those are actual examples of fellow students of mine, who went into those topics for their master or bachelor thesis)

[DarkPot]

Thats cool. Never really thought of it that way. But Im leaning more towards the creating new programs.