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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

I'm still trying to figure out what I really gravitate towards, but I know it's still early for me. My company has been talking about migrating to Azure and fortunately, I've been studying to take the AZ-104 so cloud technology is definitely an area of interest for me. I'm also liking the cybersecurity aspect of IT as well.

I also get really giddy whenever I get the chance to do something in Active Directory for whatever reason.

Honestly you won't know what you'll want to specialize in until you've been in IT for years and had a chance to get your hands on things. Spend at least your first 5 years or so being a jack of all trades. Not only will you get the hands on experience but you'll have a better understanding of how different areas work together.

Cloud is a given these days but like on prem, there's a lot of different stuff in cloud. You could be the guy managing the networking and infrastructure or running automation scripts to redeploy apps/servers. Small company you'd be doing it all, larger companies you'd be silo'ed into a particular set of responsibilities.

Make sure you learn how hybrid infrastructure works and not all cloud. Most companies have finally realized it's not cost effective to run everything in the cloud so they're pulling back and running the appropriate workloads in the cloud and on prem.

Also yeah AD is fun cause it's powerful and easy to use.