In what direction should enikeyu move at 35+?

Question

Career in IT

It so happened that I worked as an enikey system administrator for a very long time, the companies made good money and, accordingly, offered a good salary (constantly raising it), and therefore everything did not go away from there ... Now I understand that the moment has come to realize my dead-end path of development as a specialist. Therefore, I ask for advice: in what direction can enikeyu move at 35+ years old? Programming is not given (tried more than once). With case design +\- . I am well versed in a variety of techniques, from washing machines to cars ... maybe quit all this IT and go to work as an auto mechanic?

Answer 1

Towards entrepreneurship. At this age, it's time.
Or devops/programming.

Answer 2

Well, about the design - this is nonsense. There are no designers from God. Rather, there are, but there are only a few of them on the entire planet. There are more good designers in the digital world - web or apps - of course, but there are also enough fingers and toes to count. I mean those who are able not only to follow trends, but also to create them. All the rest are just guys with good experience and vision.
Design is not an artist. There is a lot more engineering than creativity here. And if you add platform limitations and established patterns here, then the scope becomes much narrower.
In short, do not invent something that does not exist. I have seen how people in a year or two turned from zeros into respected and cited specialists. It's just a matter of having desire and an iron ass. Well, as, I think, and everywhere.

Answer 3

from an enikey sysadmin, you can become just a sysadmin, just a cool one.
you can devops
Yes, at least by whom you can go wherever you want. there is no such law that after the enikey sysadmin something else was prohibited.

maybe quit all this IT and go to work as an auto mechanic?

Can. outside of this IT, in general, there are a hundred times more options

Answer 4

Take the MCSA Windows server + CCNA courses, get a diploma of reprofiling your higher education and start looking for a job already as a system administrator, especially since you have considerable experience, and then try to pass the Cisco and MCSA exams, it’s quite difficult, but you can eat question database dumps on the Internet, they can be memorized before exams and thus pass. And at the interview you will show them and they will hire you, another thing will be to work hard and hard with new technologies for you, but the salary is appropriate!

Answer 5

Thank God you don’t need to program for devops, it’s just that the tools are different, well, there is programming at the elementary school level there