Leaving sysadmin to become an IT teacher

Posted by Whiswhisth22@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 56 comments

Hey people,

interested in opinions and experiences of others. I have been working long time in IT support, helpdesk, and sysadmin, working in small and big infrastructures and processes. I realized changes for future job posts, and needing to learn to becoming devops, cybersecurity and cloud expert, but i don't want to go that route. I have experience with web programming, but in todays world of AI it isn't worth going thar route also. Also, of course, getting older.

I have a lot of broad IT knowledge and like to work in person. There is a need for providing learning of IT in my area, kids but also in different parts of IT, and AI seems to only increase that need for human learning interaction.

I am interested for your experience if you have any - going that route, from an hardcore IT specialist to IT teacher. Do you know examples going into teacher, educator in the field of IT? Thanks.

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slugshead@reddit

Teach the basics, they're not going anywhere and are DESPERATELY NEEDED.

We have students that don't understand when you ask them where they saved something. They just press save and search for it afterwards.

We have literal steps in exams that they get wrong

Open this zip
Extract it to
close the archive
Locate document
Rename it to your student reference
complete task in document

The amount that get those few simple steps so wrong is unbelivable.

Basic fundamentals (That we take for granted as part of "That's how you use a computer") have never been in such demand.

Learn to turn the damn thing on before you vibecode an app.

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Master-IT-All@reddit

That's work of yesterday, not tomorrow.

As someone selling customers on the future I'm working to change people from "I need to organize things with multiple levels of long folder names" which breaks SharePoint and OneDrive to, "don't worry where it goes when you ask Copilot to save the file, Copilot will take care of it."

When you want it later, ask Copilot. Stop wasting productivity on picking where to save a file that you asked Copilot to create.

This is like Friday, my Project manager asked me to put together a diagram for this little network. I blurped that into Copilot and it produced the END format which is supposed to be a PDF. He couldn't wrap his head around the idea that you don't need to create a Visio or draw io when the AI can just shit out the end format. How do you update it? I ASK COPILOT. But how does it update it? It can read PDF. But how would someone else update it? I'd hope they'd not be dumb and just use the Copilot license you're paying for each of us to use.
So I worked out the compromise that would satisfy their block, and will have Copilot output Visio or draw io compatible files.

But I'm not ever going to open draw IO to create diagrams. That's stupid wasteful use of time when an AI can shit out the result faster than you can type in the prompt. When Copilot saves it, the data rules will take care of where the file gets saved. In this case since I told Copilot what project we're working on, it puts it right to the project folder. End users needing to think about where to save files is so 1986.

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slugshead@reddit

That's all good and well, but when students are literally examined on how to saves files and create a folder structure. They kind of need to be able to do it.

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