Confused

doobu

Greetings,

Nice to meet ya! New here and I've already read a ton of useful posts.

A little about me:

Bachelors in accounting in 2012 and I started working my first professional job a little into 2013. I've been here over a year and it's been pretty good to me. Lots of nice people and good work environment. The problem? I only do tech-based things. I'm managing the e-mail server(making users, changing passwords, etc), building computer systems, buying/purchasing software, some minor networking issues, on and on.

Basically my job has been a help desk job and I've done ZERO accounting. I'm actually loving the computer interactions and I think I should have gone this route in the first place (I was a dual major in information systems and accounting but dropped the I.S. due to program changes).

Our IT vendor (who I talk to candidly a lot) said he basically used to live here fixing computer complaints. Now he's rarely here. I'm pretty much the IT department/guidance for our clinic. If I don't know it, I find out how to get it or how to do it.

We've had some breaches, DDoS attacks, etc. recently and the aspect of security is fascinating to me.

Where would I make my first step into such a field? I have an accounting degree..and was trying to decide to study for my CPA exam, but the call for IT is rather strong. I'd love to do both...

tl;dr I've capped my ability to learn more where I am at, but I need more. IT is calling me, but I feel like I wasted my time in college. Help?! lol

Thanks for reading (maybe replying?!),

Rob

doobu

Khaos1911 wrote: »

This is such a distribution and medical town, really rare to find good Infosec jobs here. I got lucky.

Yeah. You either work for FedEx or Baptist/Methodist. Haha. I am not above moving, thankfully. Where do you work?