[ivolimmen]

The only thing I actually had in school I still found useful (even though I only use the theory of it) was networking. All other stuff I learned in school I never or barely used. What you actually learned in school (unknowingly) that is the most important part (something I found out later) is learning to learn. Knowing to ask the right question at the right person to the right person (or medium). Most stuff I do in my job (and I am a senior) I still need to look up because the amount of stuff you need to work efficiently you can not all remember.. I learn every day... and you will too, and it is still fun! Even after 39 years.

So get a job as a junior and start hacking. Your basis will be fine to quickly understand everything.

[gonzo41]

Second this, go deep on networking and platform tools. it's the plumbing of the future and all the plumbers I know are rich.

[Hellbanevil]

What do you mean by "platform" tools? (I'm just a hobbyist coder.)

[gonzo41]

You can do networking by getting on a server and opening ports, or your can do software defined networking via things like terraform or other solutions which includes defining lots of other stuff in a technology stack. The platform tools answer the question of, how do you get the servers? how do you get the code on them? and how do you manage changes in those environments?

Devops CI/CD, SRE and the cloudy stuff all sort of fall into the bucket of platform tools and have jobs attached at the end of the day. Whilst it's not the most exciting work (to me at least) there's a lot of it out there.