Start Your IT Career in 2025 or nah?

Is IT a good career choice in 2024 and into 2025? Lets address some of the biggest concerns you might have.

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[reinen]

It's so discouraging to continue learning when seeing layoff headlines all the time, comments such as "cyber is not a entry level", "tech job market bad", "Ai is taking all these jobs anyway". I needed a kick

[Theftex]

Graduated in 2022 with my IT degree and still cant find a job because employers want IT experience and I got none to show other than school projects. Cant get an internship either because employers want students, not recent grads >.> its rough out here but nothing else to do but keep staying up to date with IT software and applying I suppose.

Grats on the weight loss by the way!

[geffestime]

For those trying to land their first IT job, I think school district jobs are the easiest to get. They may not pay well, but at least you can put that on your resume to show at least you have 1 or 2 years under your belt then you leave.

[ThatGuyAlon]

I have a IT degree and the CompTIA Sec+ and I cant even get a call back for a basic help desk role. I plan on getting an AWS Cert next. Its definitely tough out here

[TheGunnyBadgerxx]

Zach, I'm here after watching one of your videos from a few years back. I just wanted to say how happy I am for you for your journey in IT, YouTube, and your health. Keep kicking @ss, dude!

[masterelf]

Graduated back in late 2022 and got my first IT job then. Got laid off in the summer of '23 and I have been stuck in returning to security guard ever since. I have looking openings and NO ONE IS HIRING

[ligdjumvidja]

I started my journey with watching one of your videos and I am still following up. Thanks for good respectable estimations and advices Zach.

[markben]

Everyone and their momma now wants to work in tech not because passion but for paycheck

[HenryTomasRos]

I was getting a little discouraged as I’ve been going through my studies (working on ITF+ then going into A+). I’m very new to IT but I just want to learn and get my foot in somewhere. I came across this video and it was super encouraging. You earned a follow.

[majgetcash]

Video came at the perfect time thank you 👌🏾

[javiersaenz]

Companies rather hired indians with HB1 visas over Americans because it's cheap labor

[lawrencek]

Thank you for this video I needed it. Going back this summer to finish my degree in cybersecurity/ IT. Most of the talk is negative about the job market and I needed this positivity

[marcusmcdow]

Honestly its hard to find a job in any where with any job title no matter what it is. So it aint just tech its everywhere. So I wouldnt feel discourage I would keep pushing thats what Im doing.

[mememan]

Bro you lost so much weight! Good for you!

[TheBlader]

I'm graduating this month, and I regret going to university.

[pixie]

Thank you for this. This really helped me because hearing about the tech layoffs every week is very discouraging. Also, thank you for the information that cybersecurity is the way to go, now.

[nathanielplacide]

I would still definitely encourage anyone it to get an education if you’re going to pursue IT careers they’re starting to have more barriers to entry, in particular requiring a bachelors degree. Help desk and call center jobs are going to be the first to go and these are typically entry roles, even those might have chat bots at the level 1, any escalation could go to level 2. I’m in school and an intern, not in the position to give the best advice so take it with a grain of salt. Location, networking, internships, and adapting. There’s still a huge demand for workers physically and socially, in most cases AI will only be tools for people in those positions, similar to how Microsoft word, excel, the Internet, WiFi, and cheaper technology did revolutionized the workforce.

[krucialraider]

Its not looking good for me. I screwed up

[joeblobyisme]

Hey bro. Great content thanks for the info. Is it possible to get project ares? Or can you make a video on the steps to get in. Thanks. Cyas. Do I have to be a student to get in? Or do they have individual programs? Or I guess if I wanted the ares experience I need to download team nite 4 or whatever it’s called.

[qljkbtc]

The market sucks, but you can do it. It's also important to be honest with yourself: are you just doing this for the $$$ (not that entry-level IT job pay well in general but who knows), or are you actually passionate about tech, troubleshooting, hardware, software, etc.?
Also, it's significantly WORSE in programming. You have hundreds and hundreds of people with B.S in computer science, others with years of experience as programmers, who can't get a job! I think IT is still a much easier field in tech to break into. Good luck!