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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am surprised nobody suggested IT. Do a simple QA certification, plenty of centers in NoVa, will take 4-5 months and you can get a 60-70k job and most probably WFH. A fiend of mine just did this, she is 40 and had no prior work experience at all, now she has a 70k full WFH job. Something to think and research.[/quote]

What is QA certification? Is it more like admin work? I always associate IT work with coding, which isn't for everyone, and you won't get good at it in a few months (unless you have natural inclination and talent for it).   If it were easy then every idiot would apply, 70K remote after such short training sounds too good to be true without some connections..[/quote]
QA is basically a tester.

Quality Assurance.

-someone in tech[/quote]

Also don't go to those tech job fairs. Some dumbass on here recommended it to me and they only wanted engineers.[/quote]
oh, yea, no, QA testers don't get recruited at tech fairs.  That was a dumb recommendation.  You can look for those jobs online.

However, OP being a sahm for that many years with no tech background isn't getting a QA tester job.[/quote]

She can.. My mother did this in her mid 50s.  She took a course or more in a local community college and started working contracts. I think taking a course helped because this opens the doors to potential work, but This was a while ago, like 15-20 years ago? I forgot a lot of it.  She was making something like 40-50/hr I believe.. don't remember much.  I just remember she had to take SQL (data query language), and she got good at it quickly, so this allowed her to get more jobs and higher paying ones.  She was in STEM before in her country, so tech stuff came easy to her, but she had zero experience in the field, she was waitressing prior to this job.  Ironically waitressing paid a lot more with tips, but she couldn't physically do this anymore and didn't want to do low wage jobs either.

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That's not going to happen for OP, who is a sahm and has no background in tech. Also, back then, companies were desperate for IT people as there were not enough of them. Today, the market is flooded with low level IT folks, many of whom are on Hlbs.

I also took sql programming classes in cc, 25 years ago, and found a job in tech. But, it would be really hard to break into it now as a 50 year old with zero background in the field. [/quote]

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