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Hello All,
New to this forum but seen you around during my research into the next steps of my career. I am an IT professional with 12 years of IT experience and two years of Linux Engineering Experience. I am interested in learning and touching the backend of financial systems. Currently I use a lot of bash scripting and python in my day job as a client facing technical support engineer, but I feel like I am at the peak of this career. Everything else that is interesting seems to pay less with way more responsibilities and everything else is either sales or dev. So my five year goal is to land a job as a Dev in finance, banking, hedge funds and crypto. I hear that these industries rely on Linux and since I have been specializing in it for the past two years I think that would be a good next step. I also do Python and C++ projects on the side, but nothing I really think is bragging rights.
My career so far has been pretty unconventional and don't believe the current IVY League/Grad School route would help or be relevant in my situation, but happy to be proven wrong. i do have a bachelors in Computer Information Systems that I obtained in 2012 from a small school in Florida. Been working in IT ever since.
Progression has been:
2014-2019: Field Technician at a Charity.
2019-2022: Tech Sales Retail/B2B
2023: Help Desk in local prison (contract)
2024: Night Shift Sysadmin at the FAA (contract)
Present: Linux Engineer at SAAS company
The salaries in fintech jobs NYC and surrounding areas seem very attractive too at 120K-140K. However, I really don't have any network in these industries and would be relying on luck to get my resume through. Is there anything else I can do like a masters degree that would help me break into the finance world and get seen?
Thank you for any help, advice, or stories. I always enjoy chatting with people about their careers at networking events or in bars :D.
New to this forum but seen you around during my research into the next steps of my career. I am an IT professional with 12 years of IT experience and two years of Linux Engineering Experience. I am interested in learning and touching the backend of financial systems. Currently I use a lot of bash scripting and python in my day job as a client facing technical support engineer, but I feel like I am at the peak of this career. Everything else that is interesting seems to pay less with way more responsibilities and everything else is either sales or dev. So my five year goal is to land a job as a Dev in finance, banking, hedge funds and crypto. I hear that these industries rely on Linux and since I have been specializing in it for the past two years I think that would be a good next step. I also do Python and C++ projects on the side, but nothing I really think is bragging rights.
My career so far has been pretty unconventional and don't believe the current IVY League/Grad School route would help or be relevant in my situation, but happy to be proven wrong. i do have a bachelors in Computer Information Systems that I obtained in 2012 from a small school in Florida. Been working in IT ever since.
Progression has been:
2014-2019: Field Technician at a Charity.
2019-2022: Tech Sales Retail/B2B
2023: Help Desk in local prison (contract)
2024: Night Shift Sysadmin at the FAA (contract)
Present: Linux Engineer at SAAS company
The salaries in fintech jobs NYC and surrounding areas seem very attractive too at 120K-140K. However, I really don't have any network in these industries and would be relying on luck to get my resume through. Is there anything else I can do like a masters degree that would help me break into the finance world and get seen?
Thank you for any help, advice, or stories. I always enjoy chatting with people about their careers at networking events or in bars :D.
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