Ask HN: Recently hired for my first job in IT. What tips do you wish you knew?

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After nearly seven years in retail I finally landed a job in IT. As of now I’m working as an “IT Support Specialist” provisioning and managing user accounts with many opportunities to grow.

Are there any tips/tricks/hacks/warnings the netizens of HN have to offer for establishing a professional IT career?

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Keep learning new skills/tech so you can advance + making more $$.

Learn to code... Python, bash for Linux, Or Powershell on Windows side for example.

Absolutely. My homelab was a big reason I got the job, I’ve done a lot of basic sysadmin tasks on them.

Funny enough I may need to set up a Windows Server install here, that’s my main blind spot after having used Linux for a decade.

My programming skills are definitely rusty, I can hack together bash and Python but I wouldn’t consider myself fluent in anything - even with years of false starts to “finally learn how to program”. Closest I’ve gotten is Guile Scheme which is obviously a small language.

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