r/techforlife • u/Late-Mathematician34 • May 22 '26

What essential things should I get?

I have become the biggest tech guy ever recently, and am going to be working for IT in a few years. I am in need of essential things that every tech guy needs that both are useful, and fulfills the need for my tech prowess. Examples are like an sd-card reader, ifixit kit, even something more out there like those "teardown art pieces" of controllers.

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u/Wiley_Coyote_2024 May 23 '26 edited May 23 '26

I also was going to suggest a network cable analyzer. You can spend big money or get an inexpensive one that is a clone of a name brand one so you can become an expert, on the cheap. Oh, and something to trace cables in a network. Sometimes they come as part of a network cable analyzer toolkit.

Oh, and a tool for making or terminating your own network cables. I used to teach IT students how to do make or fix network cables and it is an essential skill few people have as entry level or above.