Here are some random things that are guaranteed to work for landing a well paid IT job. * get your CCNA and become a junior network engineer. * Join the milit

Here are some random things that are guaranteed to work for landing a well paid IT job. * get your CCNA and become a junior network engineer. * Join the military. You can join the US military without living in the US or being a US citizen and achieve citizenship in 3 years instead of 5. If you have a 4 year university degree you can start life as a management intern as a 25A. If not you can be a 25B or if you are more ambitious and not afraid of failure a 17C or 25D. * Learn JavaScript. When I say learn it I mean actually learn it as in writing original applications, walking the DOM, avoiding frameworks. Most people paid to write JavaScript never actually learn it and they need tremendous help from frameworks, abstractions, tools and other things that slow them down and makes for slow/shitty products. Employers generally realize the incompetence associated with this technology but they have products they need to ship. If you actually learn the technology with confidence companies will hire you just for the potential of solving problems other developers refuse to accept.