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[โ€“] books@lemmy.world 40 points 8 months ago (6 children)

If you really want IT. Then telecom

Most people in telecom are old and are analog phone people, they don't know ip/sip and don't want to learn.

It's basically a small networking job that you never get calls on nights and weekends about and if you do it's a system you can reboot remotely. If it's not the system it's a switch and its someone else's job.

Telecom isn't sexy but it's still needed, no one's going into it as it's not 'sexy' and to be honest it's easy AF.

[โ€“] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Telecom seems fantastic except it's really hard to get into At&T or Verizon at the moment

[โ€“] books@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You don't need to work with the big guys.

Small businesses, managed service, utilities, hospitals all need telecom guys. Ive been out of telecom for years and I still have recruiters occasionally reaching out to me.

[โ€“] mmhmm@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

All of this is true. I work with telcom and it is needed in all these areas. I'd add schools, government, anywhere with lots of phones.

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