Is it hard to get in an IT career?

@OldBrit did you get paid well? What type of with did you do?

@Lilliesandlight I was extremely lucky I had some periods of very good pay.

OK I trained as a software engineer working on avionics originally. Then moved into publishing and financial services where I was a coder largely. That though got me into databases and I became a database developer / administrator. I went into life sciences with that. Then I became a technical leader then a project and programme manager before heading into service management for last decade when I moved into higher education in a life sciences research led university.

My favourite thing was to be in an end user organisation helping the people at the coal face actually get value from the systems and services provided rather than in a supplier building the system from the ground up.

@OldBrit did you have go to college?

@Lilliesandlight as part of my training I did a computer studies hnd over the first 3 years of work. Essentially what now would be called an apprenticeship but that seemed a shunned word in those days.

Now I'd probably needed a BSc as entry requirements. But some do offer apprenticeships

@Lilliesandlight what qualifications do you currently have? If you have degree think of doing a masters as one way in

@OldBrit I don't have any qualifications... I've just done office work for several years

@Lilliesandlight look here https://www.bcs.org/articles-opinion-and-research/routes-into-the-profession/

The ecdl is a good starting point