Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Rediscovering His Tech Skills for a Career Change

When Deegan was a kid, his tech-savvy father was the type to pick up the latest tech gadget which, at that time, meant a PC with its cursor flashing at the DOS prompt. Then came Windows. Deegan got into that operating system’s first wave of popular games, all the while teaching himself the basics necessary to use and troubleshoot a machine of that era.

He found it fun to compute, but life took him in a different direction. In high school there weren’t any classes on IT or computing to guide him down the professional path. By graduation, he found himself employed in a non-technical field making good money, and it seemed like it was good enough.

Throughout his career in management, though, he continued to tinker with computers. Assembling a desktop here, fixing a laptop there; it was always in the periphery. As was his theoretical interest in the mechanics of white hat hacking.

Suddenly, these interests jumped to the forefront. Deegan took a programming class to start getting a feel for the contemporary standards of the tech world, while also looking for jobs. When an entry-level IT position availed itself, rather than just sending over his resume, he spoke with the hiring manager. He went in for an interview, and his combination of natural tech acumen, potential and recent study got him a job at the help desk.
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