# IT techies..help me pick out a new place to venture!

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**Created:** [July 17, 2001, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-techies-help-me-pick-out-a-new-place-to-venture/72854 "2001-07-17T22:37:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Heath\_Doolin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Heath\_Doolin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heath_Doolin)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2001, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-techies-help-me-pick-out-a-new-place-to-venture/72854/1 "2001-07-17T22:37:58Z")

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As a tech, I have been progressing along at a rapid pace to try to keep up with the market as such and now feel I am at a crossroads. I got a lot of things I NEED to learn and am wondering what you guys may suggest for stability in the coming job market.

What I mean is, if you had a choice to learn something in languages or computer related field, what would you shoot for? And where would you go?

Specifically I am looking for those techs out there that can suggest a good field, tell me why, and give me a stepping stone to learning.

I can book learn but like classes and am thinking maybe UNIX but am unsure where to start.

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**Author:** ![Spiritus\_Mundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Spiritus\_Mundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiritus_Mundi)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2001, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-techies-help-me-pick-out-a-new-place-to-venture/72854/2 "2001-07-17T22:53:11Z")

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And it serves as a great jumping off point for any number of future pusuits (performance tuning, perl scripting, SAN implementation, HA design, systems architecting, etc . . ) There is a lot of demand for Unix folks, still, and I don’t see much evidence that critical business processes are jumping to NT/Win2K in large numbers. Plus, linux offers a great future opportunity for the “small company” market.

Of course, if I had to do it all over again I would probably go into high-end computer animation. 😉