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Originally Posted by Rathji
The first thing that comes to mind is get some basic certifications and try a sys admin type role. It has lots of potential and a reasonably short training time to get your foot in the door. Lots of ability for remote work, depending on the company(s) and many opportunities for consulting are around.
Next thing is coding, but I think it might be a little less on the growth and income scale unless you are really good.
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and don't be afraid to start at the bottom on the helpdesk if you have trouble jumping straight to sys admin (OP didn't list his current experience, so i wasn't sure). at my current company i started on the helpdesk and within a year i was moved to the system admin team. got involved in everything i could that looked interesting, volunteered to take an SCCM course since that was the direction we were heading, and (6 months later) i just finished implementing our production SCCM environment
the trick is to find a company that invests in their employees, i left my previous employer because they never did