I'm a wage cuck looking for some advice. I'm recently married, now renting a house and never missing installments on my car, phone bill, etc. I'm paid a shit tier 16-17k per annul and only barely managing to support myself and my wife who is struggling to find new work.
Here is my situation. I've been working a help desk job going on 4 years within an IT company in the UK. There has been zero opportunity to advance even before COVID. Per most companies, the help desk isn't valued because, on paper, it doesn't directly turn a profit. Due to this, there is a high turnover at the desk, morale is always low and the desk is understaffed. It's depressing having to work in an environment where people look like they have genuine desire to neck themselves.
Despite this I have pushed through like a good little wagie and survived redundancies. Ive genuinely applied myself and worked overtime unpaid. My best efforts have always been provided in attempts to promote myself, willing to even work just for higher level experience or certification.
I've asked my manager about opportunity and he's literally told me they are "few and thin on the ground"
I'm not asking "Zig Forums, how do I make more money" and expecting some formula to making millions, I hate people like that, who lack the independence to think for themselves... I've tried to make best of my situation and actively promoted myself, I am not going forward. I'm applying for other work of course but with current experience, I am expect to go back to entry level and be low balled again.
Is there any advice you can offer which I can follow to better my situation. I have zero knowledge of cryptocurrency but I am willing to invest if the general consensus is that it would be a good idea. What skill sets are genuinely valuable today, I have a fair understanding of unix.
>inb4 learn to code I know a little python but any programing language is useless without a goal or project to aspire to...
you should understand crypto before investing. otherwise you're just going to chase prices
Mason Roberts
Bob Cratchet but Scrooge ain't having a change of heart in this story
Caleb Watson
Do you live near a major city OP? If you do focus on developing good customer service and interpersonal skills. Transition that base skillset into technology sales as a Sales Engineer at a software company/startup. A good starting salary with someone with no previous experience in sales will be about 50k. After continuing to focus on being useful and continuing to develop your ability to explain complex technology to customers, you can get yourself a six-figure job in a few years. If you find yourself bumping into a roadblock in career progression, switch companies. Don't let yourself be undervalued. Continue to invest regularly and you'll eventually make it.
Luis Bailey
Do not buy crypto. Why do you have car installments? What's the car? Can you dump it and buy a shitbox in cash? Other than that, it seems like your wage is shit. Use what you learned in 4 years to market yourself as a experienced wagie in the job interviews.
Zachary Smith
there are only 2 important aspects when i comes to crypto 1.pump 2.dump
Adrian Cooper
Are you ripped? Why did she marry you?
Samuel Cooper
Just make a list of everything you have going for you and find a career that you can build on. If you're in IT Helpdesk the logical next step is to find graduate/trainee program for something like web dev, networking or some other 'entry level' IT field. Let's face it, you're not going to be a sysadmin or a data analyst but you can still get a good career out of being on IT support. Of course your boss would say there's nothing out there - there is, trust me. Tech and finance are the two sectors where there are actually MORE jobs than before covid in some areas.
I was in a similar position myself but with finance - I worked a shit 19k a year admin job at a big bank that rhymes with Parplays. Although it's a bottom rung job you learn a lot about corporate finance, compliance etc so working in that role for a year is equivalent to employers as me doing a finance degree (seriously, it is, degrees mean less and less every year). I started doing my CII exams in Financial Advice in my free time using savings and then applied for 28k a year job as a junior Financial Adviser. I am now on 33k a year as a paraplanner (what a paralegal is to a lawyer) and career is looking really promising. Sure, I could and should have done a better degree and gone into a good grad scheme rather than wasting age 17-25 on being confused and stoned but it's always possible to change your situation.
Benjamin Hall
user , I been in your situation and still , just work and save money then invest it in shitcoins that have hype around them. Wait for a pump than sell and repeat. In the mean time learn c# or c++ and apply for work. Or make your own games in free time. Don't learn python it's easy and a normie friendly which mean alot of competition. But don't learn code if you hate it or can't stand coding.
Charles Green
Invest in yourself - your development. Build skills centered around what you like which are useful to others. The minimum you should require out of a job is that you are always learning and becoming better. Forget pay. Only do overtime is that you are learning something you dont already know. More pay comes with more skills.
No use programming if you don't like it. If you do then look around your office/life for mundane things to automate. You will know you like it if you get lost in the process of writing code
Adrian Gutierrez
some girls are ugly, poor and insecure too you know
Dylan James
Your trying to be too honest in this clown world. Literally lie about everything, put fake certifications on your resume and claim you have more experience then you actually do. You'll fuck up a few interviews but its not like it really matters literally everyone out there is lying about one thing or another. You just need to practice until you can fool some company enough into paying you at least 50k a year. And as long as you have an actual functioning brain you will figure out how to do the job within a month and they will keep you.
I'd hang in there until the new year then try and new work, the job markets gone to shit right now with kung flu mate.
I'd suggest putting an amount of money you're willing to lose into crypto, pick 3 coins MAX (diversify is a meme) and leave them for a year or sell when you're happy with the profits.
Apply yourself on weekend and try do some online courses in python or java. All the best lad
Julian Anderson
>the help desk isn't valued because, on paper, it doesn't directly turn a profit that's what they tell the wagies to keep them in check, they are fully aware of the cost of downtime, otherwise they wouldn't fill these positions in the first place the most important thing is becoming mission critical, where your absence costs several thousands of dollars and putting pressure upwards
Nicholas Lopez
Going to say it anyways, learn how to code. It totally changed my life. I was always barely getting by before learning how to build websites. You say you're a hard worker, now put your money where your mouth is.
check out: the Odin Project or FreeCodeCamp
and get on with it man. Start building shit. Work on a project every day. No more fucking around, no more wasted days.
>I know a little python but any programing language is useless without a goal or project to aspire to... those are a lot easier to aspire to when you've got a sense of what you can actually do - programming's never useless, it's a tool and a way of thinking
Ryan Richardson
Also because you have some IT background you can learn networking and get an cissco certificate. Or go and get your driving licence to drive big trucks most of the time you be driving alone and having peace of mind rather than wasting your life in an office for a shit tire job. You last option would be applying for a janny on Zig Forums but than you get nothing paid and you be betraying us frens.
Isaac Sanchez
unironically it would. Though to be on the safe side i would just claim that i'm a mixed race
Brayden Moore
Oh and don't just 'learn to code' and make a GitHub while being a NEET like others will suggest here, get on a grad scheme or some bottom rung trainee job. Being unemployed and working on projects is a complete meme to employers.
LEAVE. IF YOU APPRECIATE YOUR MONEY AND YOUR LIFE. LEAVE THIS PLACE NOW
Landon Miller
the only thing to know about crypto is how to pump it, and when to get out. lot of retards think their shitcoin is going to be the next bitcoin, but if never take profits, chances are they'll get wiped out within months, maybe years.
David Brown
all in link if you dont make it by 2025, kys
Easton Smith
Lol, OP having low standards never even crossed my mind.
Bro, monkeys could do first line help desk work. You work in a pigeon hold job being mainly responsible for basic tech support. Anything greater than that is passed up the chain. I actually tried learning 2nd line work going as far as to run a group policy update batch script on some lads machine. I was issued a warning for acting out of remit and my job description due to "the secure nature of our working environment". Basically because the company has some small government bodies as clients I can't go above and beyond without total understanding and consent from higher management.
High turnover, under valued, shit tier pay, basic monkey work. No one is mission critical on the desk. They could replace the team lead tomorrow with a homeless guy. She was hired in an IT company years ago and somehow is still hanging on. She thinks her work is amazing because she's not out in the rain. 10+ years and they could swap her for a primary school kid...
Lucas Garcia
The only solid thing you can do is to save more than you spend. Invest in indexfunds and your money will grow. If you have time to learn about crypto, there is alot of oppurtunities to make alot of money. Read about stocks,crypto or whatever. Get more knowledge and you will be able to make better decisions in life.
Elijah Collins
For me personally, i couldnt give a fuck about trying to climb the wagecuck lead. Maybe it would work for you, but investing is the best way to get rich. Not making other people rich.
James Price
then definitely try to leave, they actively try to keep employees down, and keep them from deveoping skills that would even benefit even the company themselves
Mason Jones
Unlikely given she's deeply religious, how insecure and unhappy you must be to seethe at the thought of someone being happily married hahahah
Thomas Sanchez
>posting actual sound advice on Zig Forums NGMI
Evan Ortiz
Yes but many people fall into a trend of having fully went through a python course and learning a programing language. Then having zero clue what to do after that. No projects to work on etc. They make little things like a rock paper scissors or basic command line scripts...
