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[quote=Anonymous]I have worked in IT for 30+ years and hold no certifications.  Honestly, no one has ever asked about them in interviews.  I am pretty general, however, and have mostly worked in smaller organizations.  I do networking, Unix admin, automation, etc.  I think that most of these certifications are pretty useless without the experience (or at least education) to go along with them.

OP:  do you have any interest in IT at all?  If not, just stop right now.  If so, are you interested in programming, networking, databases, web development, etc.?  These are all very different career paths, and the work will be very different at a large company or a small one.

People in this OP's position (who have no experience with and know nothing about information technology, but "want to work in IT") generally end up as project managers or agile scrum masters (or whatever the buzzword of the day is), in my experience.  A few of them are actually good, but most are just an impediment to progress.

I think that the "technical writer" suggestion above is good--if OP has writing skills, that might be something to pursue.  Sales might be another option, since most IT people (myself included) are not especially personable.  If OP is interested in more technical work, it might be a good idea to get a job (any job) at a smaller company and express an interest in learning about and moving into the area of interest.  That would give OP a chance to learn about the work and try it and see if it might actually be interesting.

Note that there is a fair amount of age-ism in IT.  Rightly or wrongly, no one is going to hire a 60-year-old AWS architect.  A 60-year-old COBOL programmer or mainframe expert has a good chance, but only with decades of experience.[/quote]

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