Hey man, Austin TX told me you do Software Engineering for a living?

Yeah sort of; industrial design/automation type thing

I don't do anything in terms of a living for IT, but I've built myself a decent homelab in which I've played around with vSphere and Docker for building applications, learned JS/TS to a fair extent, and am wondering what I can use these skills to translate into a job

JS is widely used in a number of different industries, vsphere and docker will be more specific

They all can, the issue is with no job experience or education/certifications you cant demonstrate that knowledgr

Youd need to first think about the broad sector you want to look at, then look into related certifications

A short coding school can get you injected into the market because they usualy come with some sort of gaurantee

I have a buddy that did an online 6 month one then got a job as a coder

Should I invest time into CompTIA? I was watching a livestream NetworkChuck did basically saying what he do if it was starting down the IT path in his 30s and with 4 kids, and he was heavily pushing this.

He was advising A+, Network+, Security+, and Linux+ as the minimal

If you are looking very specifically at IT then maybe - i personally think all the comptia stuff is garbage, teaches you very little, and no one cares about it

Look at job postings and see what they want, again starting from zero job experience you need something to fet aytention

A school of some type/training program that helps job placement is your best bet for any job

Applying randomly online to places is horrible

What about Cybrary? Looking at the courses, and considering going down Systems Administrator then Network Engineer

you need to start somewhere

when say school, i mean an actual coding school, where you are in a class and those some with some placement help

i have a buddy that did that, i can find more information

that position isn't a bad place to start

but given what you've told me you should be able to start entry level somewhere and a school ( i think there are 6 month programs) will help you with placement

Thoughts on this? https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=a7532e6615eac708