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Who can become a web developer, with a background of a system administrator, and an SEO specialist?
He started his career as a system administrator, served the Win-infrastructure like the main office-branches, is familiar with AD, SAP, 1C, and other admin joys.
Later I went into web development, created sites on CMS, ecommerce, mastered html, css, but not a full-fledged front-end, I don’t draw golden ratio layouts, I don’t use preprocessors, etc., I can add / fix something on js/php, to make it work, did not become a full-fledged coder. I also have a background from SEO, I was in the environment, plus I worked in the direction for a long time with different clients. Not an enterprise marketer with a tower, but I can move, I will do basic analytics.
Question: where to move, what to do? I want to consult with an experienced community, where it would be more effective to decide.
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As for me, these areas practically do not intersect anywhere:
From the experience of administering a Win-infrastructure for web development, there is practically no sense. Exactly like a system administrator, there is no use for knowledge of CMS and SEO. I'm not trying to belittle the value of this knowledge as such. All this sooner or later can come in handy in any industry related to IT, no matter what you choose.
If you are closer to web development, consider going into back-end development on ASP.NET.
Also, as an option, given that you actually worked in three completely different areas (system administration, web development and SEO optimization), collect all your portfolio, describe all the projects you participated in and what contribution you made, and mark to web project managers, team leads, etc.
What is closer to you and the more you like to go there and move.
In your subjective opinion, if you have not worked closely in that area for the past couple of years, you may no longer consider yourself a specialist.
My background started with marketing/seo/context/advertising and after a couple of years I stopped working on it. SEO is even more dynamic and unpredictable than development or administration. So after several drops of all tactics and decisions from the side of the search engines, it reduces your previous experience into a bunch of unnecessary inf. Yes, I still know the basic things: the right anchors, anchors, etc. - but in SEO I figured out one important thing, do it WELL and CONVENIENTLY people will reach out to you.
Admin joys do not end with setting up AD and 1C - this is virtualization and deployment of Windows installations on a bunch of machines, and mass activation, and the Internet, and a lot of things. Starting in tech support, and just at a wild pace absorbing all the information that now also at least seems outdated. No one works with XP anymore, sevens don't deploy like that anymore, not many people are interested in the problems of Exchange 2007. Dubious experience, it's true. I used to consider myself a specialist, having raised a stable and well-thought-out system of office work in half a year. But, a student of a technical university with an inquisitive mind in a year will knock me over the belt on the experience of Windows administration of current software / technologies / approaches.
An actual question for me. What to do next?! But it's okay if you don't know everything. Many advise when you no longer have time to follow fashion / technology, you need to go into business / management. But this is when you really fail, you need to do something.
For myself, I definitely did not decide what to do next. And good luck on your journey.
The optimizers move, work with slow sites and optimize their backend and front end.
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