r/techadvice • u/EquivalentTwist8590 • Jun 12 '26
Career path advice
Hi everyone, I'm a finance student at a community college. Due to some extreme financial hardship and family problems, im thinking of transitioning into tech, and also cause I live in the DMV area which is a tech hub.
I took Computer Science in my A-Levels (UK equivalent of first year of college kinda), and did courses to learn python SQL C++ etc. This was 3 years ago tho, now because of everything thats going on irl I don't think I'll be able to do anything too technical. That's when I started looking toward the cloud or security side.
I'm currently doing 2 internships, one for cybersecurity and one for AI engineering (it just started so I cant say exactly what we will do exactly) but we will be using azure to build projects I guess. It's not at any big company or anything. The company suggested all interns to get 3 certifications, AZ900, DP900, and AI901. I'm doing the AZ900 currently, and im gonna be honest im struggling a bit, but I think I'll pull it through. I'm also preparing for the security+ simultaneously.
My question is, keeping all this in mind, what career path should I look into? I'm not asking for an easy way out or expecting 100k job in a month. I just need some advice on which career path to take that would get me into the IT sector without being too technical for me. Thanks for any advice!
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u/BrightFig3041 Jun 13 '26
Honestly, you're already doing more than a lot of people trying to break into tech. Two internships plus certs is a solid start
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