@fuego if you had to choose a career path in tech in 2026, what’re you choosing? Cybersecurity, programming, sysadmin, etc.

I’ve been in helpdesk for 6 months now and I’m trying to figure out which direction I wanna head down from here.

havent seen a lenny face in yearss

being a SOCanalyst has a good work-life balance I’m told and I #needthat

do a start up to rival apple and samsung

i feel like i’d have to care about app development to do a good job at this!

i put 10 dollars in your company for 90%

i feel like anything to deal with programming requires a level of passion thats not there for me

well I cant pass that up

chop chop timestamp boy!

s***!

purr

lets do this, you'll be the new steve jobs, I'll be the owner!

closer you are to the platform the less of your role can be automated so far. things like security for tech companies, infrastructure, devops, sysadmin, etc.

forward deployed engineer type roles are also incredibly popular right now.

kind of combining a developer, infrastructure, designer, customer service, all in one.

typically the goal is meet with customers, determine their needs, us ai and other tools to proof of concept integrations, or setup customer solutions

idk what experience requirements are like for that tho

I was thinking of cybersecurity or maybe something cloud related.

i mean a friend of a friend is a multimillionaire and he just runs a company that does phone/printer/wifi setup for local businesses

Yeah I’m gonna assume that’s something I’d have to work up towards haha

That’s sick lmfao

yeah, im tryna build out like a small ai consulting type of business for myself. maybe itll turn into that at some point.

going to companies that do s*** via spreadsheets and different communication layers or buried in paperwork and helping them introduce ai

I feel like there’d be a lot of money in that.

I want a job that I can do remotely, work my low-stress 9-5, and be done for the day. Preferably high paying. Is this too much to ask for!

yeah hopefully. i havent figured out what ill charge this construction company yet but i imagine itll be 10k range, I can probably do 1 of these per month working in my spare time, if it took off could do more and quit my current job but we'll see if it gets there.

lol unironically yes its a lot to ask for, i mean like it should be the bare minimum, but in reality its not common.

Gotta have ambition bro sounds like a decently obtainable goal to me

if you had to throw out a job title that most closely aligns with that post what would you say