Title: First a little background:
I`m in my mid 20s, worked my way up from a help-desk position. Done 4years of sysadmin work and i am currently employed in of the largest Scandinavian based firms.<p>My day to day jobs consists of daily operation of various software solutions (mostly java applications), projects (kubernetes is the new hot thing) and various other sysadmin related tasks.<p>I have been approached by several people that want me to jump ship and join another department and or firm. But I`m not sure what i want going forward in my IT career.
I have two offers coming to me in early 2019, one is joining a penetration testing team, enrolling in a 6-12 months insane learning program. The other is joining another firm where i will become an Azure architect.<p>The problem or rather what i feel insecure about is that i don`t know enough, especially for the penetration testing gig. I don`t know programming in general, yes i have tweaked some php&#x2F;bash&#x2F;python&#x2F;go code but never made anything from the ground up.
So I`m debating if i should move away from my &quot;comfortable&quot; position where I`m usually praised and involved in a lot of projects and I`m making a big positive impact, for both customers, colleagues and the firm. To a new position where this will be limited (atleast for a couple of years) in both skill, earning potential and possible impact I`m able to do.<p>I`m basically looking for advice, if someone has been a similar dilemma and would like to share their experience, then that would be really appreciative.
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