Over the last three weeks, I gave you a full deep dive into my IT career history. I talked about my first job, my current job, and everything in between! I was as honest and thorough as I could be (probably more honest and thorough than I should have been), but now I’m going to look a little bit deeper and provide you with a few lessons that I’ve learned from navigating my IT career and the professional space. I figure that if I’ve devoted this much time to a career, I might as well try my best to help others who are looking into the same thing.

After I wrote the post for part two and then edited the video, I realized that it was painfully long. I made the decision to break up the IT Career History into three parts, saving my advice video for the fourth part. Thus, here we are in the third and final part of my IT career history! Last week, we left off with me having just gotten let go from the "job" at a startup that was questionable at best. Let's pick up from there!

Today, I thought it would be fun to share my personal IT career journey and talk about how it started and how I got where I am. This is going to be split into two parts since there’s a lot to go through. My hope is that by being thorough and open about this, I can show others that it’s entirely possible to build a career in a field like IT and support yourself without the need for a degree that you don’t actually want or care about.

Why are uniforms and dress codes such a big deal? It’s just clothing, right? And you only have to wear it for a maximum of eight hours a day, don’t you? So why on earth would I be adding uniforms and dress codes to this series on why your job sucks? Well, buckle up, because there are going to be quite a few examples in this one and no uniform/dress code-enforcing employer is going to be happy with this article.