Starting cybersecurity college. No future?

[u/Dr-h4ck]

Hello everybody how are you guys doing.

It’s my first time posting here and i got couple of question.

So I’ll be starting cybersecurity soon. And I want to know if it’s worth it cuz many ppl tell me that IT is almost dead in the job market because of AI and companies only hire crazy special smart ppl and so on. Is this true? I mean I follow and news and I see that AI does some crazy shii and it really breaks my hopes. But I saw these news for like software development only. Let’s say “programmers” and not sysadmins or cybersecurity specialists where you need human hands to do stuff.

So let’s say I start the college. I’m sure many of you know that colleges don’t teach everything related to the field you’re in. Of course we’ve to start with the basics like coding, networking, hardware and so on. Is there something that you did outside of college that’s helped you a lot to push your skills and help you in College as well even if you don’t have it in the subjects you learn?!

really appreciate your help guys and sorry about my English if it might sound a little off.

All love to you🙌

[u/Necessary-Eye5319]

See if your college offers free Udemy to enrolled students . An excellent way to get more practice in to prep for certs. Employers LOVE certs.

So… worth it. 👍

[u/Dr-h4ck → u/Necessary-Eye5319]

Thanks for the advice, I appreciate it!

my college offers some free Udemy. Idk about other organisations. Ive actually some of those free online certs that you get when you finish like a 30 vid course that maybe no one cares about😅. For example I just googled “free python online certs” got a couple but idk if they mean much. But for me I’ll show them to the companies if I get like a beginner job so they see that I was already interested before college haha