What career development options are available to me?

Question

Visual Basic

Hello.
I am young - 21 years old, the second year I work in a medium-sized bank
(management reporting; position - a monkey trained to press buttons).
There are still two years left of study at the evening as a production manager in the oil and gas sector.
In fact - I have some SQL skills, I can write macros in basic, I also mastered javascript.
The level of English is intermediate (and I would like to develop it and use it in my work).
What options do I have for further development in terms of work and/or education?
Is there a job near IT where my knowledge can be useful, not only related to coding and reporting activities?

Answer 1

You seem to imply that you want to do development, although you do not explicitly indicate this. Your question is worded in a general way: what career options are available to me? Any career options are available to you, if you do not specify what you have an inclination for and what you yourself want to do.
If we talk about the career of a developer, then a fairly obvious way is to get a job in a large company that trains its own personnel. The presence of such companies in your city (which you also did not say, if it is the default city, then there are many options), see for yourself. Usually they are. Such companies provide free courses for developers, testers, requirements analysts, etc., sometimes they even pay scholarships to successful students. At some stage, the best are selected and taken as juniors for the minimum wage. If you are not afraid of the prospect of working "for food" for some time, then this is a good way.
The second way, which I know only theoretically, is to independently study a programming language (codeacademy.com, books "for dummies", thousands of ways), participate in open source projects, then you can freelance "for food", develop a profile and gradually increase rate until you are taken remotely to some office, so a number of acquaintances work through odesk.com. Probably, this path is more difficult, because. requires a tendency to self-organization, lack of fear to try new things after failures.
The methods I have outlined may require a reduction in income, "downshifting" in case you are already working and earning something. If you want a "smooth transition", that is, to continue working with the same income, but to develop as a developer, try to break into your company for tasks such as
By the way, I forgot to mention the English skill. Teach always and in any case, if it is already there, then use it regularly. Search here, a lot has been written on the topic.
My answer is in the style of "finger to the sky", but it's hard to offer something more specific here, since the details are not known.

Answer 2

> production manager in the oil and gas sector
and who is this?
> Is there a job near IT where my knowledge can be useful, not only related to coding and reporting activities?
And something about knowledge not a word. Judging by the keywords - let you be programmers.
In general, a career is the art of being at the right time in the right place, to grease someone, to send nafig to someone, to drink vodka with someone and go hunting. Ordinary diligence does not break out into big bosses.

Answer 3

You can try to go to web application testers (as an intern to start), but you need to have at least an analytical mind. For example, a common interview question for an intern is how would you test the operation of an elevator (in the form of test scenarios).

Answer 4

The answer is simple - go to the oil and gas sector, all the money is there :)