Hello reddit, hope is everyone is a-ok today.
So here's my story:
Dropped out of high school when I was 17, got a g.e.d,tried going to community college and work a full time manual labor job but that kind of blew up by my 2nd semester. I'm now 24, I've been working on a shipyard as a painter working 50+ hours a week and being absolutely miserable. 8 months ago I had my first kid, and I want to find a job that will let me work more normal hours so I can be, you know, around more, or at least not so exhausted I don't want to do anything when I get home. So I've always been very good with computers as I've been on them since I was very young. I'm the guy my entire family comes to with PC issues, and I truly enjoy working with computers. That said, I'm awful at math and never even passed a high school math class. I've been looking at jobs as a web developer( I literally made websites when I was 12,13,14 years old but it's a different field today) or in I.T but I have no idea where to start. Google is yielding mostly information from 2007-2011 and I feel a lot of it might be outdated. Looking for genuine advice on how to get out of this manual labor rut I'm in but I have no clue where to start. I am willing to take classes but I'd like to avoid any 4 year programs. it seems I could just study books and take certification tests for certain things but, I literally have no idea. I know I'm not good at explaining things so please ask me to clarify something if this doesn't make sense. Also not sure if this is the right subreddit.
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dropped out of high school, got a g.e.d,worked a manual labor job, want to get
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Hello reddit, hope is everyone is a-ok today.
So here's my story:
Dropped out of high school when I was 17, got a g.e.d,tried going to community college and work a full time manual labor job but that kind of blew up by my 2nd semester. I'm now 24, I've been working on a shipyard as a painter working 50+ hours a week and being absolutely miserable. 8 months ago I had my first kid, and I want to find a job that will let me work more normal hours so I can be, you know, around more, or at least not so exhausted I don't want to do anything when I get home. So I've always been very good with computers as I've been on them since I was very young. I'm the guy my entire family comes to with PC issues, and I truly enjoy working with computers. That said, I'm awful at math and never even passed a high school math class. I've been looking at jobs as a web developer( I literally made websites when I was 12,13,14 years old but it's a different field today) or in I.T but I have no idea where to start. Google is yielding mostly information from 2007-2011 and I feel a lot of it might be outdated. Looking for genuine advice on how to get out of this manual labor rut I'm in but I have no clue where to start. I am willing to take classes but I'd like to avoid any 4 year programs. it seems I could just study books and take certification tests for certain things but, I literally have no idea. I know I'm not good at explaining things so please ask me to clarify something if this doesn't make sense. Also not sure if this is the right subreddit.
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I'm a laborer in a manual labor job, want to switch careers but am a
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