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Hi, I’m considering going back to school for a different college program and want to know if it will allow me to transfer to uni.

(I already got a college diploma but it turned out to have no jobs), if I start an engineering technology program and get a high average, could I get into first year engineering at somewhere like York or queens or OTU? Would I have to finish it? Should I get highschool calculus and sciences? Does the program need to contain a lot of math and science or are more practical programs with good GPAs acceptable too?

I don’t care about transfer credits, just considering engineering and whether it’s possible for me.

How does this work? I can’t find any info on this online.

Hi,

Some background, I’m considering doing a different college program than the one I’m in now.

The short version is, I had depression due to the covid lockdown in hs and my marks tanked, so I went to a local community college. I chose IT cause a prof told me it’s better than my original (programming) to get into cybersecurity, which was my childhood dream to work in.

I was sick during two of my semesters and hospitalized for two weeks during one, but still came out with a 75 average. I seem to be doing better this year but it’s a chronic thing that can flare up.

There’s however zero jobs in helpdesk, the default stepping stone job, only 3 people out of 300 found a co-op, this is due to many factors, mainly student overproduction, AI, the economy, foreign IT workers, and the geography of the GTA. So no cybersecurity for me, that’s not an entry level job.

I want to go back to school for electromechanical engineering technology, as it would use a lot of my networking and databases education, and my local area actually has manufacturing jobs as far as I know.

After this however, I really want to go to university. My grandfather was an engineer and researcher, and he really sold me on the idea of doing this and explained a bit of how it works. I’d want to do this after I get some work experience ideally, as that’d probably give me insight into applied research stuff vs someone with only theory.

However I’ve been looking a lot and can’t find any clarity on how this works. How do transfers from engineering technology programs work? Can I even go back to college? Will my IT diploma with a 75 average doom me?

I’m really confused about this whole process. Everything seems designed around high school students and international students, and my situation seems so unusual and confusing.

How do university and college admissions work? I can’t find a central source anywhere.

FYI I’m not a developer - how hard would this be to make?

Every game ever made has had 1 item + 1 item = new item. But what if you had a game that simulated forging (hammering something until it changes shape) casting (pouring molten metal into a cast and cooling it into that shape) and welding (joining two pieces of metal with a weld). You could have players make genuinely any shape, and probably do many things with this, such as challenging players to get a shape within a certain threshold, or recognizing the shapes as certain presets of items like a sword, and then allowing them to do things like welding swords to a car and driving into something.

You could also apply a similar framework to construction, ie digging foundations, pouring concrete, putting up walls, only thing is this parts less interesting so you’d probably want NPCs doing it and having the player direct them. Maybe also some kind of structural simulation?

There’s nothing as far as I know in 3d graphics that prevents this. But again - I know nothing about 3d graphics.

So is this doable? How hard would this be to make? Would you have to basically reinvent a game engine?

I’m an IT student who’s absolutely desperate to find an entry level IT job, and want to do volunteering for a few months to have a possibility of actually succeeding in this market. Does anyone know where I can go to volunteer? I’m in durham region. I checked the usual volunteer sites but there’s nothing.

I live in a very very bad area for entry level IT jobs (greater Toronto area, commuter area and bad economy, lots of skilled IT immigrants). My friend whose been tinkering with computers and networks since he was 12, had 1 year of experience, and his A+, and a community college diploma and it took him 6 months and the high hundreds of applications and he had to relocate for a minimum wage job that has him on the road for 11 hours a day. I honestly don’t think I could handle that much driving, I don’t even have my licence yet due to Audhd sensory processing issues. He’s like the cream of the crop and this is what he ended up with. Dude even had a year of experience.

I’m going to get my CCNA and MS-900 soon, I’ve been playing around in a developer tenant and reading the CCNA book and am about 3/4 the way on each. Also know all the basic Linux commands.

That said I’ve just started looking online at jobs and reaching out to friends who graduated and holy shit, no one’s gotten a job. Not one person I went to school with did, this is a sysadmin focused community college mind you not general cs.

So I’m just like…should I give up and go take another program? I’ve wanted to do cyber since I was a kid but at this point idk if it’s even possible.

Is there another way in other than helpdesk? The funnel to get in is so narrow…there’s gotta be another way…but every job I see online requires years of IT to get cyber…but IT also requires IT experience. I’m thinking teach myself the OS internals malware analysis and reverse engineering stuff for a year or two, then transfer into cybersecurity and try to get into undergrad research. But would that even do it?

Are cybersecurity jobs cooked? I imagine eventually the lack of new IT people will force them to open up the stupid helpdesk requirement but that sure as shit hasn’t happened yet. I applied to unpaid volunteer IT positions and they rejected me.

Intellegence agencies used to hire felon cybercriminals, and those guys now have six or even seven figure careers, meanwhile I can’t even get a helpdesk job bro it’s fucked 😭😭

Hi,

I’m a community college IT student in Ontario Canada wondering about if it’s possible to start my career by freelancing for local MSPs? The markets reeeaally bad here for new grads so I’m thinking they’d be more willing to employ a freelancer than take a risk on an employee. I’m also very ADHD and benefit from having my own hours and independence.

In terms of skills, I’m good with M365 (Entra, Intune, SharePoint, exchange, graph API), Python, RESTful APIs, powershell, Active Directory, AWS, networking (VLANs, subnetting, TCP/IP model, etc), Linux scripting and commands. I’m also trying to start learning LLM stuff like RAG and vector database cause I think that might be good for MSP automation. I also want to learn servicenow and its API before I graduate.

I’m thinking of starting to send out cold emails to MSPs and message people I know from prior years who got jobs at MSPs at the end of this year when I graduate. Is this possible? Or am I just screwed lol.

Hi,

I’m a community college IT student in Ontario Canada wondering about if it’s possible to start my career by freelancing for local MSPs? The markets reeeaally bad here for new grads so I’m thinking they’d be more willing to hire a freelancer than take a risk on an employee. I’m also very ADHD and benefit from having my own hours and independence.

In terms of skills, I’m good with M365 (Entra, Intune, SharePoint, exchange, graph API), Python, RESTful APIs, powershell, Active Directory, AWS, networking (VLANs, subnetting, TCP/IP model, etc), Linux scripting and commands. I’m also trying to start learning LLM stuff like RAG and vector database cause I think that might be good for MSP automation. I also want to learn servicenow and its API before I graduate.

I’m thinking of starting to send out cold emails to MSPs and message people I know from prior years who got jobs at MSPs at the end of this year when I graduate. Is this possible? Or am I just screwed lol.

Hi, I’m an IT community college student in a very difficult entry level market (Toronto) looking to get help desk or some junior support role. I’m looking to do anything I can to boost my shot at a job.

Do IT managers care about home labs?

I’m thinking of making one with an old desktop + 1 I build, and a dedicated switch, a dedicated router/switch/firewall/AP, a windows AD/M365 joined network running on proxmox, DNS/DHCP on the windows server, and a backup for the M365 SharePoint written with Python to talk to graph API hosted in AWS S3. This is a lot of stuff I’ve worked with individually but never in this big of an integrated project.

Problem is none of this teaches me much troubleshooting, it just teaches me automation and how the systems I’ll be troubleshooting work. And it dosent simulate hundreds of users.

Is this a good use of time? Or should I focus on certs? I only have one year before I graduate.

Any advice would help.

Why are cybersecurity bachelors seen as useless? At least when compared to compsci degrees which just teach algorithms and math? What’s the difference between getting a security bachelors and a masters in security?

I’m wondering cause a lot of job postings in my local area list a cyber bachelors as allowed, but I’m not sure what the overall security community thinks.

Given how horrible the entry level IT situation is, this more and more seems like the only option. Grads just don’t get jobs in IT anymore. Not since COVID.

Is this doable? For reference I’m in Toronto, like the worst area for anything entry level ever.

Im currently in the process of setting up a homelab with Active Directory, DHCP, windows server, going to add some Cisco switches and routers and an AP and DNS and Microsoft 365. Then I’ll just run attacks on it and learn the security side I guess? I really only know sysadmin stuff from school. I know John Hammond, network chuck and those types have lots of videos on YouTube on this kind of stuff.

Like what is the minimum to get into a SOC job or some other entry security job? What certs and homelab? My community college program has a transfer to a security degree so I have that covered, but ofc I need more than just a degree in this f*king market…

Help need advice pls 🙏

Given how horrible the entry level IT situation is, this more and more seems like the only option.

Is this doable? For reference I’m in Toronto, like the worst area for anything tech ever.

Im currently in the process of setting up a homelab with Active Directory, DHCP, windows server, going to add some Cisco switches and routers and an AP and DNS and Microsoft 365. Then I’ll just run attacks on it and learn the security side I guess? I really only know sysadmin stuff from school.

Like what is the minimum to get into a SOC job or some other entry security job? What certs and homelab? My community college program has a transfer to a security degree so I have that covered, but ofc I need more than just a degree in this f\*king market…

Hi, I’m from an IT college, self teaching is common there so forgive me if this is an ignorant question. I did see someone else mention it though.

If I’m coming from an IT community college diploma, if I self teach industrial automation stuff, could I get a job in this industry doing both IT and industrial stuff? Sorry about my total ignorance, I just hear industrial + IT is a good niche.

I’m currently strong with Windows’s server, networking, Linux, and some AWS and firewall configuration.

From what I hear these two worlds sometimes overlap, and when they do someone who knows both is very valuable.

Sorry again if this is dumb 😅

Literally trillions of dollars are going to get invested?? They’re making these massive fucking data centres. Some are like as big as cities.

WHO is affording this? Like is AI is good but not that good, and honestly who tf is gonna spend that much on a really smart AI if it costs 1000000 dollars per prompt???

If this is a bubble (and it has to be right??) how do I make money off it???

I personally think a new AI purpose built computing architecture will be needed, and that’s in its infancy. All the existing data centers will be outdated if it comes around anyway…make it make sense.

Is this what happens when private equity feels like spending some money? Imagine they wanted to feed poor people or smth smh 😭

HOW IS SPACEX WORTH A TRILLION DOLLARS WHEN THEY WONT BE PROFITABLE FOR 4 DECADES??!! Space is a nation state thing Musks moat isn’t that big if you factor in future decades of technological advancement and future genuine institutional incentive in space 😭

Also as an IT nerd, AI doesn’t have a very big place in the ms365 windows ecosystem. A helpful tool maybe, but not at all worth what they’re spending. They should just use open source models and build data centers ONCE THE TECH IS READY.

It’s like the emperor has no clothes, like the biggest bubble in human history. It’s just too early for AI…

Hi, my grandad who was a professor told me a long time ago before he passed (probably 5 years ago) that he thought biology + math + AI would be a big field and, and that they’re literally making new forms of life, that was going to be big in the economy, and that I should consider that. I’d always ask for his advice on “what should I do for my career?” and he’d always tell me he didn’t know and only I can answer that. That was his answer when he finally got annoyed lol. He was a math professor himself.

I didn’t really pay much attention but recently learned there’s this whole genetic engineering thing, or synthetic biology. I’ve been considering going to school for a cs/math degree, and wondering if I do a bio minor if I could get jobs in that? I already know python, AWS, and some IT stuff like databases/sql and some fullstack dev stuff, as well as some of the math used in uni from MIT opencourseware.

Should I do a bio degree or is an integrated cs/math degree with bio minor enough? I don’t want to risk doing a degree totally outside what I do now (IT) but worry I won’t get in.

Also does anyone know exactly what I’m aiming for? What jobs exist in “biology + math + computers”? I’m not sure what he meant by that.

Is it possible to do a cs degree with a minor in chemistry, take some extra physics courses, then do a masters in materials science?

I’m doing a community college program (in Ontario Canada) in IT, and don’t want to just fix PCs and setup routers the rest of my life.I have the option to transfer into the third year of a cs degree. I am considering this, but am also interested in materials science due to it being listed on many geopolitical/macroeconomic analysts “top industries of the future” lists, and seems to have overlap with AI, and therefore things like cloud computing and networking/security which I’m already trained in.

Is this progression possible? CS with AI specialization + chemistry minor + extra physics courses -> materials science masters?

Hi, Im an IT/software student wondering about maybe creating my own business or product one day, but keep running into the fact that every industry IT supports is different. It’s hard to predict in advance what to build. This is especially relevant I feel for industries typically underserved by software and IT services, like construction and manufacturing, basically non office jobs with lower cross pollination between the fields.

Is there a centralized or decentralized place I can go to gain this knowledge? Anyone want to give me some cool information on an industry they’re apart of 😅?

Some background, I’m an IT community college student.

My professor, a former IT consultant, told me that lower revenue manufacturing companies often have terrible IT, despite it being important for efficiency (and probably profit margins?) and that made me wonder if I could build a career around this?

How would I go about learning how the industry works? Is this a viable niche? Basically a technical generalist for lower revenue manufacturing companies?

I hear there’s a lot of bots and I’m telling you I couldn’t sell you anything worth buying if I tried, I’m a student lol. I have zero valuable connections or information. I am 21 😂.

Sorry if this question is poorly formed, Im not a scientist lol I’m a software student.

Some background, I’m an IT student at a community college in Canada and curious about what I’m going to do when I graduate.

I heard from a professor academic labs are often really under resourced in terms of IT/software automation. Is this true? Is there a possibility to make a niche out of this, especially early in my career at low cost to them? Would they hire someone (in person and local, maybe part time), to come in and help improve their network speed, security, file hosting, etc?

I’m partly asking cause I liked science in high school lol. I think I’d see cool stuff.

I think the future of programmers and new SaaS companies will be divided into two buckets:

1: working for an established non tech business using AI
Or
2: building vibe coding frameworks/libraries on top of standard code for specific niches and industry, rather than purpose built tools.

This mirrors the original idea behind software, which is just “software serves business purposes, it’s not its own thing”, which is probably the ideal most efficient state. Domain experts write better software, and they will once they are able to.

The problem is I doubt general LLMs will do a good job translating business requirements into a specific tech stack and backend. But a framework/library could have this built in to some degree. Then the domain experts handle the business logic and front end using generative AI.

This wouldn’t even necessary be bad for programmers if it allowed them to sell their services to a wider audience. It would though probably kill commodity dev work.

Do you people think this is true? Especially over the coming decades?