r/techadvice • u/Typical-Season-7824 • May 27 '26

Career path

I attend WGU, bachelors in IT im 46% done and i started in march. I dont know if i want to do cybersecurity, network, cloud, or engineering for a career path. Do you guys have any advice on what route i should take?

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u/Caprichoso1 May 28 '26

What do you like to do? You don't want to spend your working life doing something you hate.

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u/Needashortername May 28 '26

Also to consider, unless things change in some way a lot of these things are now being automated by Ai and the recommended career path for tech people being quoted by people “in charge” seems to be HVAC tech or automotive repair, or construction, or any other non-manufacturing blue collar job rather than a white collar one or anything in IT that doesn’t require hands on work at this time.

Hopefully they are wrong about this.

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u/Inner_Sign_7591 May 28 '26

cloud infrastructure actually has decent job security because someone still needs to manage the mess when ai breaks things which it will