if someone asked me, i'd help them pick a job that we were going to target, then find/get that job, and training and learning and connections and whatever to ac

if someone asked me, i'd help them pick a job that we were going to target, then find/get that job, and training and learning and connections and whatever to achieve that job, or related. reason is because there are innumerable skills/technologies that are useless to innumerable job listings and companies, so, imo, you need to pick one or three or ten or whatever skills/techs that will 'get you into IT' -- that is, that will land you a specific role. i feel like security is a good place for newbies, esp if they are not programming/math-inclined. and i'd find 3 or 4 job roles and start applying to them - after using gpt to fix up my resume, obv, then start training, first informally, then maybe formally studying for the various certs. that's just one path -- security. there are many. i would probably stay far away from anything web dev-related for many reasons - like it's just super-low margin, it's probably going away and already has to a large extent, programming may be going away, etc. etc. but outside of that, most 'tech jobs' are not actually tech jobs, so there is that option, too. like marketing, sales, finance, training, etc. for tech companies. nothing is completely safe from ai so i wouldn't really worry about that either. the rules of financial security are not changing. i'd probably also keep asking if she has thought thru her other field options. i don't like the "oh, don't do IT, it's _so_ bad now!" option -- one, i don't actually think that (yet?), but i'm sure there are plenty that do. it reminds me of myriad doctors i've heard over the years say, "Don't become a doctor anymore, it's _so_ bad now!" -- what they mean is they can no longer afford a second vacation home. but i don't think IT is the sure-fire thing it was 20 years ago. English is probably super-important. if a non-native English speaker was asking me for advice on how to get into IT, I'd say start practicing your English every day -- you really need to get as close as possible to native as is practicable. listening, written, spoken, slang, etc. i would say this is a prerequisite unless you just never want to appeal to an English-speaking company. maybe that's obvious, but maybe not.