OK soo lets give you some bullets about my life:
1. Military 13 years (mostly active duty)
2. Been IT for my whole adult life
3. Have no college degree and don’t really want one
4. Have had jobs ranging from 45k - 98k / year
ok so what I’m currently at is a 64k job with Amazon, but i’m not doing anything really IT, i’m running fiber lines, labeling them like some machine and then plugging in transceiver ends for fiber optics… it’s something i could teach to somebody who knows NOTHING about IT stuff, in the matter of 4 hours.
I see jobs in my area for cyber security that start at 90k and I just need to get a degree (about 2 years for me) and i’m good to go. but I honestly have no interest in going through school to get a job that I have gotten before without a degree. I also have trained IT’s below me and on my teams that have had degree’s and you can’t even tell, I have no way of telling in the IT world who has a degree and who doesn’t based on work performance and knowledge. I think our society has too much wrapped around degree’s and what they mean. For me it means that somebody went through a lot of trouble to learn something they could of learned with on the job experience and some certificates, and paid WAY too much for that. So why are degree’s valued so much when I haven’t noticed at all throughout my entire career of professional jobs (till now where it’s not professional at all, but something for income)
So what my question really is here:
1. Should I even try to get a degree and go for it? make more money and just move up in life a little bit (even though I currently make enough and have over 1k extra a month after all bills are paid). Plus with these higher paying jobs.. usually comes more responsibility and then I have to still worry about my work AFTER my job is done for the day, which.. nobody likes this.
- Just stay here and do this easy job, but feel like i’m losing all my IT knowledge and getting dumber.. But then again this job doesn’t have any responsibilities outside of work and no trouble tickets that dictate my job performance, I do the work and i’m done for the day (which is nice for me to just go home to kids and family and not worry about a thing, but moving up here is almost nonexistent due to location, and the pay doesn’t go much much either due to the fact that they maxed me out on my offer when i got her 6 months ago, saying that I was over qualified for this job title but would be a good addition for the Amazon team as a whole).
What do you all think?
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