30, male, Australia

>30, male, Australia
>Lost 76k a year job
>Had to sell home and move back in
>Few months later obtain 50k a year job
>Thanks corona

Seriously didn't think corona could fuk me up this much....what do I do now....lost my friken home, earning crappy money wtf now

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>ellipsis spam

can you normies leave this board forever? at least take this nonsense to r9k or something

Get into a better industry.

I'm in Australia, and I made an additional $50k this year thanks to Corona.

You just need to be in the right lines of work that are always considered "essential".

>fell for the wage cage meme
>fell for the mortgage meme
>moved in with daddy and mommy instead of renting

Just accept you are a sheep in the jew rat race and leave this board you fucking filthy normie.

Okay what line of work you in? Also what would be good industries because this is going to last for years to come

>Advocating renting
I wonder who's behind this post

cybersecurity.

I make $120/hour. thanks to rona I went from 40 hours a week billable to about 80.

Would a Tafe certificate IV is CS be okay or do I need a degree? Also I do security on the side and I'm lucky to clear 1300 with both jobs

what industry mate?

did you need a degree to get into that field? what does your day to day work entail?

Consultant?

niggers?

I have a bachelors degree but it was useless. It took 8 years of shitty IT jobs to climb up and then become a contractor.

My day to day work? Systems integration, specifically working with cyber security systems. Just knowing a few products that are hot in the industry (Tenable/Splunk/Nexpose/Trend/etc.) are more than enough to get in.

The easiest way is to get a full time job with a larger company on an average wage, skill up on their dime, and then jump at the first contracting job you find. Preferably with large government so you can have some stability in work.

Dude - cool it with the racism. Thats not cool. I punch nazi's jackass.

Lol Corona has upped my wages in WA mining industry since noone from other states can come in.

Was your bachelors in anything computer related though? The IT industry feels so foreign to me - I guess I don't really get what you lads do. I'm in civ engineering. Is it an easy industry to get into?

Yeah it was IT. But again, very useless in reality. All skill I got was from getting a real IT job and self-study at home.

IT is always struggling with finding enough competent people, so if there's a niche that looks like something you would like to work in then go for it.

Things to avoid:

Working for the big 4 consultancies - they will overwork you and underpay you, and you won't get very far.

Working for big India-backed companies, like Accenture and Oracle. They'll also overwork and underpay you, because all the real product building they do is outsourced.

If you like software dev, don't become a disposable generic dev (e.g. sharepoint or plain old .NET devs). You have to learn some something niche to make yourself valuable, otherwise your contract will be terminated when cuts roll around.

Good stable jobs:

Integration work with complicated products, like Salesforce, anything made by Oracle (but don't work _for_ Oracle), SAP, ServiceNow, etc. Products that have huge contracts with big organisations and will take decades to be replaced.

Niche software dev. Like if you know how to do performance improvements on .NET or Java web applications, then you'll be in high demand.

Networking, but only if you're good. CCNA-certified people are a dime a dozen, but a good network engineer that can actually troubleshoot fast is a rare skill, and well paid.

Artificial Intelligence. I've heard some people make $4k/day in this field, but you usually need a PhD first. But, it's such a meme knowing enough to excite executives with small projects could be enough to make a lot of money without the PhD.

Thanks for the information. Its super interesting.

Don't work in AI. I work for an AI company. We get hundreds of applications every single day from people with PhDs from top universities, perfect grades, maths competition winners, etc. We don't even pay well or do interesting work. This field is a meme with a few jobs and an enormous sea of overqualified applicants.

I know a lot of ex-engineers that move into IT, so you wouldn't be alone. They seem to like embedded systems (digital signage, Internet of Things devices, building management systems), because a lot of what they learned in engineering transfers across.

Most of them got out of engineering because it's a pretty saturated job market at the entry level, and they got sick of waiting to get promoted.

>digital signage, Internet of Things devices, building management systems
Haha, you're bang on correct.

Entry level is a pest, but there seems to be a plethora of gigs around for people with a few years experience.

How would one go about transferring into the IT industry? Not that i'm considering leaving, its just that I don't understand what the process would entail. Thanks for the information mate.

Yeah from what I've seen the people that actually make money have found a way to actually deliver some sort of product around it and land a contract.

The rest of the memers are just doing academic crap that will never be used in reality, or it's just so execs can go to conferences to talk about how amazing their R&D departments are.

If you make the jump you'll need to deal with the initial shitty step of applying for an entry-level job that doesn't pay you enough because the business will be taking the risk to skill you up. The best kinds of companies to work for are small to medium businesses. Small enough so you end up working in multiple roles because there's no-one else, but not so small that there's a risk of them going under. It will be difficult and intense, but as long as you don't blunder and break too many things by mistake, and you can always find solutions without giving up, you will be rewarded.

Big businesses are ok for stability but you'll forever be climbing the ladder and trying to play the promotion game.

Don't bother with public service jobs. They're far too competitive to get in to. The only thing that works easiest getting in there is grad programs, but even then they're hyper competitive.

Project-based work is really good to try to get in to, as there are clear starts and ends to the jobs, and it feels less of a grind. Look for junior project officer kinds of roles if you can find any.

It's ok user, you were earning crappy money before. Don't worry.

Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions in more depth than you needed to. Take care mate, have a good week :)

AI is gay. However, using ML to solve optimization problems is needed. The new ticket is data engineering, as AI/PhD/Data Scientists can't program their way out of a paper bag.

>He's happy he can slave away for 80 hours away for a corporation that would replace him the next day if he didn't create profits in 5-10x excess of what he's paid
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I don't give a fuck about rent if it's to save up for buying a house without mortgage

If I had taken a mortgage I could have put much less into LINK and wouldn't have 6 figures now.

Aside from that any man with an ounce of self-respect who isn't a manchild and desires freedom should not move back in with parents, how fucking pathetic.

29 Australian Male here, comfy 90k job essential as fuck, what I would ask you though is what state did you buy the house, and if you bought around Melbourne and Sydney, why?

Listen to this. The industry is booming and it’s hard to find good people.

become a criminal. that is how your great great grand pappy ended up on the island anyway