How I Entered My Current IT Job

First of all, I am NOT a graduated IT fellow. I got my Electrical and Electronics Engineering degree back on 2016.

Then how I got into IT related job? Well, here is the story.

Let's start from back then. I was graduated from my college, and searching for job. Then I found a vacancy for network and security engineer at a factory near my home. At that time, it was kinda an ideal thing to work at this factory, considering it was a big factory and pretty near to my home (gonna save cost of living and transportation!).

The requirements were kinda suited, where it stated can be a person with Electrical and Electronics Engineering degree or IT degree; so I gave my shot. And after a lot of corporate tests, finally I arrived at the end of the rope -- the last interview with the team and the owner of the factory.

Back then there are only two left -- me and my junior back at the high school. He got an IT degree in four years, while I got my electrical and electronics engineering degree in five years. Hence, we were on the same spot - fresh graduated and applying for job.

At the interview, the team asked some questions about technical IT things. And oh boy, I got some network curriculum long back at maybe second or third semester. It was pretty much erased from my brain, so I answered however I can.

The team also asked what project was my last assignment at college. I explained that I modified the movement algorithm of my hexapod robot -- which is luckily there was a lot of coding on C (and physics actually).

Our hexapod robot

 

To be honest it was not pretty awesome-and-complicated project (considering the awesomeness and hard things you have to deal when studying at this field), but they seem to be interested about it (or maybe just... don't know what to ask to me since I know very much nothing about IT).

I didn't get my hopes up since my rival maybe more suited than me for the job, but I made it! It was pretty suprising to be honest.

I was assigned to be a network and security officer, where I will handle lots of networking things, server things, and bunch of cybersecurity things. Never crossed in my head that I will be studying about these things after I graduated, but whatever gets me paid right?