I didn't go to college, I got out of high school, took care of my mom and almost immediately worked for an ISP as customer service, worked my way up over 3 buyouts, and 20 years to be a sysadmin for the company that everyone depended on.

Sadly something I only recently allowed myself to understand is that I really don't have passion for networking, I absolutely love coding and creating new integrations, interfaces and backend, I did a lot of it to patch holes in the company i worked for and streamline my own and others work.

I'm a remote contractor for that same company now still doing the networking and some dev work for them but really want to get out and find a company that I can focus more on the DevOps side.