Episode #0012 – Growing your IT Career

In this episode we explore current events related to a couple of ugly hacks before diving into the second part of our series covering how to grow your IT career. We’ll talk about the hottest and coldest jobs in IT job market over the next 10 years. We’ll give you some tips on navigating your way up off the service desk and some ideas about what types of jobs you might be reaching for.

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This episode goes/went live at 1:00PM CT on 5/1/2023 (exact time of episode availability will vary per platform – Spotify is always live first)

Contributors

• Brent
• Matt
• Jordyn
• Shaun

Tags: #IT, #Cybersecurity, #Jobs, #Matt, #Jordy, #Shaun, #Brent

Audio Design

• Shaun

Sources

• Hackers claim vast access to Western Digital systems | TechCrunch
• 3CX blames North Korea for supply chain mass-hack | TechCrunch
• Italy’s ChatGPT ban attracts EU privacy regulators | Reuters
• Network and Computer Systems Administrators : Occupational Outlook Handbook: : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (bls.gov)
• Sales Engineers : Occupational Outlook Handbook: : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (bls.gov)
• Computer Programmers : Occupational Outlook Handbook: : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (bls.gov)
• Computer Support Specialists : Occupational Outlook Handbook: : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (bls.gov)
• Information Security Analysts : Occupational Outlook Handbook: : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (bls.gov)
• Breaking into the IT Industry by Digital Ascent (spotify.com)
• Meet Chaos-GPT: An AI Tool That Seeks to Destroy Humanity – Decrypt
• GitHub – Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT: An experimental open-source attempt to make GPT-4 fully autonomous.
• AI Just Cloned A Girl’s Voice In Million-Dollar Kidnapping Scheme (giantfreakinrobot.com)