In what direction should a beginner develop in IT?

Question

IT education

I have been working in the IT field for four years.
Now I work in a financial company as a 2nd line support specialist. In general terms, the job is to receive messages about errors and desired improvements in internal accounting programs from company employees and scatter these tasks among different development departments + a little testing on a case-by-case basis.
I don’t have any special skills and abilities in the IT profile:
school level Pascal, simple SQL queries, hello world in a couple of languages.
Education is generally humanitarian (political scientist).
I would like, firstly, to do something interesting, and secondly, looking through the vacancies, I realize that my current salary is the ceiling of what a specialist without a technical education and without special knowledge can receive.
Attempts to independently study some programming languages ​​were not crowned with much success, simple tasks are solved without problems, I hang on more complex ones.
Tell me, which way is better to move? What to study? What are some good books/tutorials/resources for dummies and demented babies?
There are thoughts to get a second technical tower, something like "applied computer science". But how much will it help? Is it possible to study there without any existing base?
Or maybe take courses of some 1C?
In general, I'm looking for advice.

Answer 1

And maybe in the loaders? To the warehouse where 1C is used. You will observe how the storekeeper uses it. Or to a wholesale office selling computers - you will wear IT equipment. And you can also go as an installer - an important activity in IT.
By subject, you can decide what you want to do. If you screw up, then what? Unfortunately, nowadays they don't pay for hello world in a couple of languages

Answer 2

The second education will definitely not help you. Just waste your time, and even now few people look at diplomas, only at knowledge.
Try to learn Java, not a very difficult language and there are a lot of courses.
The main thing is to review for yourself what professions there are in IT and see what you like best, or what you need to study.

Answer 3

javarush.ru - learning java. I like it, because I study myself.