Lost in Life! 🙏🏼 Help a brother out...A cry for help!

Unfortunately, IT is saturated and you will be competing with trained people fresh out of college with low salary expectations and low responsibilities which means an appetite to work long hours. Also, the low coding jobs in IT such as manual tester jobs, are getting automated at great speed.

If I was in your situation, I would invest in learning in demand skills that have a future and hence can be used to make a career. A couple of them would be:

1. Video editing - content creation in general is on the rise and is creating new jobs. You can look at the video editing course by AevyTV.
2. Digital marketing - businesses are selling online big time and are looking to reach their audience through digital mediums.

Both of then have freelance opportunities as well, and lower your dependence on a job.

If you want to try something that has a mix of online and offline, you can try the Amazon seller program. It will give you both a layoff proof income and the skills required to manage a business.

These might seem like tough ideas with uncertainty, but it's important to be self reliant in this day and age, especially if you don't have great college pedigree or a network or inheritance to fall back on. The earlier you start this journey the better your chances of coming out of your current situation.

I’m just suggesting, did you take a look at project manager related roles and certifications?

If you are interested into I.T roles as an MBA. You can target these roles

1. Project manager
   2.Program Manager
2. Business analyst
3. IT Sales specialist
4. Customer support specialist
   Skills you may need
5. Hard skills a. Gen AI( MOST POPULAR) use cases - don't go into architecture, algo etc. You can find it in YouTube. Put in your resume lines such as you helped support with the chatbot analytics
   b. CSM/PSM -
   c. Azure certification

All the best