 What's happening guys? It's Shane here and in today's video I'm actually going to do something that I've never done before. I have a guest on the channel and we're going to be talking about 24 different tech related careers that we think are really good. So I had Antoine from Black Heights on the channel. He has another YouTube channel where he talks about tech sales and other tech related careers. A phenomenal channel. Definitely go check it out. And we ran across this article from careerkarma.com that was talking about the top 24 tech related careers in 2022. Now typically when we see these articles they're really not all that well done. They're very surface level. But this article actually had some really good careers on it. So we kind of wanted to basically review the article and go over each of the careers and give our opinions on each of them. And Antoine has 10 years of experience in technology. He's also worked in several different roles all the way from supply chain to IT to software developer to technology sales. So he really knows the technology industry in and out and he was able to give his insight on this. So let me know if you like this type of content. This is basically the first time I'm trying something like this on the channel. Also gently tap that like button hit the subscribe button and ring the notification bell and let's jump right into it. What's happening guys. I've got a special guest on the channel Antoine. We are going to be going over this article by careerkarma that we thought was a really good article. Careerkarma is a great website. It's called best tech jobs in 2022. We're going to be going over this list and kind of given our thoughts on it. Antoine has like a decade plus of experience in technology. He's also had many different roles within technology and then he has four years of experience in technology sales specifically. I also brought him on the inter on the channel for an interview which we just did that should be posted probably within the next few days if this one hasn't been posted yet. And we're going to go over our thoughts on these different careers and the opportunities there and where we see these going in the future. So thanks again for coming on the channel Antoine. I appreciate it. Absolutely thank you so much for having me Shane. I'm looking forward to discussing some of these awesome careers in tech for your audience and for my audience as well too. So looking forward to it. All right well let's jump right into it with number one on the list. We've got IT manager. I'll have that pop up on the screen. It looks like IT manager median annual salary according to career karma is $151,000 a year. Job growth in the next 10 years according to BLS is about 11% which is much faster than average. So what are your thoughts on IT manager? I think it's a fantastic career Shane and let me just tell you why right because you know as an IT manager you are someone who has the responsibility over the information technology sector of your company. So you are in a leadership role. So you plan, you coordinate basically everything with inside the department. You may have a lot of people working for you some says software developers, system analysts, system admins and so forth but you are the person that's in control and if you are a person that likes you know management in leadership which I find to be absolutely fantastic you will like this career. So I think it's one of the best opportunities out there from a career standpoint in tech. Not only that something that I talk about on my channel quite often Shane is management information systems which is a degree that helps to translate into a role as an information technology the manager. So I think it's a fantastic degree you already know statistics 151,000 that's a good amount of money and not only that the job growth is faster than the average. So it's it's it's definitely a good career Shane. Got it and yeah MIS probably my favorite business degree slash you know slash technology it's kind of a mixture of both it teaches you a lot of really important stuff that you need to know for both of those worlds which I think is really important as well so definitely agree with what you said there. Number two on the list computer research scientist we've got a median annual salary of about 126,000 and job growth of 22% according to BLS which is much faster than average what are your thoughts on that one Antoine? This is a fairly new sort of a specialist role Shane but what I would say is that I like this role I like this role because if you think about it they are researching how to make technology better right so you're researching research right you're researching software hardware you're researching things to make technology even better so you can discover new ways to do some of the awesome things that we're getting today so AI and machine learning and there's going to be other things that exist out there that's going to come into technology space as well and you're going to be the person that research is interming if it's a good fit for your company or it's a good product or not for yourself or for other people to leverage so I am I have a very good feeling about this one right here and know that if you are in a computer science space this is a role that you can transfer into directly out of college because one thing that college does is actually teach you how to do a bunch of research as well too so fantastic numbers fantastic statistics and a huge huge job growth percentage at 22% Shane. Got it yeah and one of the reasons Antoine and I both like this list because most of the lists will just go over like the very surface level careers you can tell they don't really know too much about technology but this list got really down and dirty in the details a lot of these careers on this list aren't even listed on BLS for instance right so and that's what you're going to find in tech because tech moves so fast there's careers that pop up that you know now that maybe didn't even exist five years ago because that's just the speed of innovation and you know people have to keep up with that speed of innovation that happens in tech so number three on the list is going to be machine learning engineer average based salaries $122,000 a year the growth is not going to be listed because BLS doesn't have this one on their website because it's one of those newer careers but what are your thoughts on machine learning engineer these are the guys who are causing a whole bunch of change into technology space not only just a technology space Shane these are the ones that are causing a whole bunch of change in the world in general because these are the folks who are automating roles these are the folks who are automating careers these are folks who are automating positions so i'm excited about this one as well too many people won't be excited because they may be displaced out of a career relatively fast but if you think about a machine learning engineer they are the ones who create programs that allow computers and so forth to handle certain tasks and duties and that means that no longer do you need to you know enter a script all the time at a certain time of the day the machine your computer can actually do that on its own now and machine learning engineers are the ones who help to make that come to life so these are automation experts these are the folks who are displacing people and getting rid of jobs and so forth but they also are creating efficiencies as well too because we think about it machine can do it there's going to be a little bit more what they're going to there's going to be a lot more efficiency and the company is actually going to save money as well too so increased profits and so forth but this was an exciting one as well Shane and i'm excited about this one as well got it and we're going to do this rapid fire so next one on the list right away one of my favorite careers in tech i really like this one a lot and that is dev ops engineer so salary here is going to be about $121,000 or $120,000 a year and it doesn't list the job growth but i can tell you there is a ton of demand for this one in the technology industry so what are your thoughts on this one and one big time i like this one too Shane i have a couple friends who are in this row right now and they love their job right there are ones that's responsible for making sure things are working the correct way and they're configuring things the correct way and so forth and whenever there needs to be a big employment or deployment of software in the company there are ones that's responsible for it exciting work always working on the latest and greatest technology this is one that you're always going to be learning and that's what a lot of people want to do in their career they always want to learn and not only that Shane it comes with a huge amount of money so this one is a good one Shane i'm really liking the dev ops engineer got it and then next one on the list computer hardware engineer median annual salary here is about 119,000 job growth is 2% over the next 10 years which is slower than average but i think that this is one where you know in the technology industry just because this specific career has a slower than average job growth i think something that bls misses on a little bit even though they think they do a fantastic job overall is the different industries it's very easy to switch to different careers so there are careers that are very similar to computer hardware engineer but they just don't have the same name and so bls doesn't group them together they have a lot higher you know job growth so what are your thoughts on this one Antoine i would say this one i like this one but this is more of an average for me they make a lot of money first of all Shane but obviously you can tell by the job growth and yes there are other careers that a computer hardware engineer can translate into or there's other names for the actual career itself but just on the hardware sides of things i've never been in the hardware side so i'm a bit biased from that aspect of it but the people that i know who are on the hardware side they absolutely love it and they're always looking at ways to find speed and efficiencies within hardware products think about silicone and so forth so if you're looking to go on the hardware side or stay on the hardware side this is a good opportunity for you most of these people typically stay in that area because you can make a lot of money especially if you're working on a specific type of product that you know is it going to get in the cycle anytime soon i think this is a good one for you so i consider it to be average but at the same time it is a fantastic career is a tech career there's nothing nothing average about tech and pull like this that salary that salary is twice the median average in the united states so you're making big money there Shane definitely yeah it's it's still pretty good i mean even the ones that you know don't have the best numbers on the list are still going to be extremely good next one on the list is going to be computer network architect so this one about a hundred and sixteen thousand dollars year job growth is five percent according to bls what are your thoughts on this one i love this one shame even though the numbers from a job growth perspective perspective is only five percent this is still great because cloud is continuing to grow you have even countries that still aren't you know leveraging the cloud much like the united states in some of the developing world so this one is a fantastic career that many people should focus on especially with the competitors out there such as google amazon microsoft and so forth um you learn cloud and you become a expert in one of these uh companies and their technologies you're going to make a lot of money into demand into the man for these rows or continue to grow up because as the cloud continues to expand in other countries and so forth you're going to be in higher demand as well too got it and then next one on the list i think everybody knows this one number seven software engineer medium annual salaries 115 thousand dollars a year and the job growth is absolutely ridiculous at 22 percent which is much faster than average what are your thoughts on this one fantastic career i just say this right i think software engineers the foundation to the technical industry and what do i mean by that well i mean outside of the help desk it's going to give you the best foundation of technology in general this is where i started my career off in as my first role and i really do think that this is what allowed for me to be able to expand across many other roles and also to end up in sales because as a software engineer you're taking requirements you're talking to a lot of people you're talking about business at the same time and you do this just about every single day and as you can see the numbers are high because it's not easy but it is a really really good role to be in and one that will demand you to grow so you see that the job growth is that 22 fantastic the median annual salary is at 115 thousand fantastic i recommend this one and i am a big fan of software engineering number eight on the list kind of a repeat of one of the earlier ones with a little added on artificial intelligence and machine learning engineer salary here is going to be 111 thousand dollars a year any thoughts on this one another good one as well just like i like machine learning this is the same exact i have the same exact sentiment towards this one as well too shame artificial intelligence something that is going to continue to be needed in the technology space and you're going to have a great career if you are in artificial intelligence so wonderful wonderful wonderful job outlook wonderful salaries as well got it and then another one that's very similar to one we just talked about which was software engineering number nine on the list is going to be software developer median annual salary is 110 thousand dollars a year and the job growth is 22 percent which is much faster than average so kind of the same things along the line with software engineer on that one so we'll just go ahead and skip that one and go to number 10 which is tech sales engineer what are your well the median annual salary is 108 thousand job growth is 8 percent which is as fast as average i looked into how bls sort of groups their sales roles together and i didn't really think that they did it the correct way but with that being said what are your thoughts on tech sales engineer i love this one shana absolutely love this one because these are the people that i rely on on a daily basis as somebody who's in sales i need to have somebody who can actually demonstrate the software and who is an expert in the software itself so if you are a person that has a nap for wanting to know the details of software or solutions and you'd like to talk to customers and you don't want to be the person that's constantly building their relationships because you want to stay on the technical side absolutely fantastic role will get you a lot of money 108 thousand dollars you can see the job growth is 8 percent but let me tell you this that median salary is 108 thousand dollars you can make a lot more you can double that as a sales engineer working for the right company so i love this one right here and it keeps you staying technical if that's your pursuit within your career now anton has a channel it's called black heights i'll link that down in the description below he talks about tech sales in that channel and he is extremely knowledgeable in the technology industry in general he also has four years of experience in tech sales and you know spoiler alert i i hate to say this because you know you you probably get you know a little bit embarrassed if i bring this up but he makes over 500 thousand dollars a year in tech sales guys so anton really knows his stuff okay so if tech sales is a career that you are interested in one resource that anton and i both recommend is a company called course careers they basically will train you on how to you know the basics of tech sales the basics of what you need to know to get an entry level role in tech sales and then they actually get you interviews where you can either get a job right off the bat or you can get a paid internship so i mean this is incredibly valuable lots of people i've talked to that went through the program have gotten a job in like one to two months some of them even less than a month which is just mind blowing like nobody else gets results like that so if you want to take the free training troi did put together a free training i will put that down in the description as well as the pinned comment below and if you decide to use their service we do have a $50 off coupon i think it's like shane 50 or something like that i'll put that down there as well and then number 11 on the list i actually interviewed richard who is a product manager i'm going to have to interview i don't know it'll probably be out by the time this one's out product manager median annual salary 108 thousand dollars a year job growth is five percent according to bls what are your thoughts on this one i like this one shane i like this one because a product manager in my opinion is very similar to like a mini ceo of a product right there are ones who gets everybody to rally around their initiatives on the actual product so they always get customer feedback to get marketing feedback to get finance feedback on how things are working and they are a person that collaborates across the board and one thing that's really cool about product management or product manager you can enter this field from just about any other career you just have to have a business mentality and be very very strategic you don't necessarily have to come from a coda background or developer background i love this one and it is a place that many people are finding their nap in because they think strategic and they want to expand their career so think about it as a mini ceo if you like to you know lead things and be the person responsible for products or services fantastic fantastic career to get into shane got it yeah i've heard that one described as entrepreneurship uh with training wheels basically you're kind of you know as an entrepreneur you'd be wearing maybe like 12 hats something like that uh as a product manager you're wearing like maybe eight hats eight to nine hats so you're really taking care of like a lot of different areas marketing sales finance etc um and that's kind of training wheels for basically figuring out how to be an entrepreneur or a ceo in the future so that's a really good one as well and that's why i brought richard on the channel um number 12 on the list is going to be python developer so python one of the most common languages very very hot language right now for sure probably one of the best ones for you to learn if you're just starting off median annual salary is 108 thousand dollars a year job growth 13 percent which is faster than average what are your thoughts on this one another great one shane especially if you're looking to get into machine learning or ai you're going to need to learn python that's one of the requirements for these roles as well so i think this python is going to be around for a long time because it's so um it's such a easy language to learn but also at the same time it does a lot especially around big data and so forth you can manipulate a lot of data and i think it's a fantastic skill set to have so python developers thumbs up another one along those same lines number 13 on the list is going to be java developer this one 108 thousand dollars a year job growth 13 percent which is faster than average what are your thoughts on java another good one another good programming language as well you know when i was in school i was learning c plus plus and c sharp and so forth and java was you know relatively um relatively it wasn't new but it was out there right but now it's such a robust programming language right now and it's useful across many different applications from finance to you know programming in our android phones if you have an android phone and so forth so if you have java skills you're going to be employed you're going to be employed i give this one another thumbs up shane got it and then another one along the same lines number 14 php developer 107 thousand dollars a year 13 percent job growth much faster than average what are your thoughts on this one well i think php i'm not a big fan of this one right here shame and the reason why i'm not a big fan of this one is not because of the developer title it's more because of the technology a lot of things are becoming a lot easier especially when it comes down to building web pages front end pages and so forth and pmp php um is really being automated itself and it's making it easier to where you don't need to learn the language anymore so i'm not as highly uh on this one like i am with java as well as um python uh but this one right here um it has some good numbers but again uh i think this one php is going to continue to slip down uh the list uh year after year i would agree with that as well yeah definitely and then uh number 15 on the list information security analyst this is a good one so 103 thousand dollars a year job growth is an absolutely ridiculous 33 percent which is much much faster than average what are your thoughts here well these are the guys that are protecting us in our companies these are the guys that are protecting data and protecting company very very sensitive company information so they're needed they're needed they're needed obviously whenever there's a data breach it costs companies millions to billions of dollars so you see how much in demand information security analysts are i think it's a fantastic job with fantastic numbers and it's an easy or it is the entry level into cyber security so if you're thinking about cyber security consider becoming an information security analyst i think it's going to be good for you yeah and that's another one that is kind of relatively easy to break into um i wouldn't say like super super easy but it is one that you can break into without a college degree in many cases so i really like that one a lot as well uh number 16 on the list database administrator 98 thousand dollars a year eight percent job growth what are your thoughts on this one i like this one shame and i like this one because to be quite honest you don't need a degree to be a database administrator now most jobs you're probably going to see out there that exist are going to say you do need one or they're going to ask you for one four years or so for but you really don't are you really need to know a sequel you need to know about microsoft tools or oracle tools or some of the other um non-sequel type of databases that exist out there so if you can uh learn those tools or those systems you can become a database administrator not only that you can also transfer that into something of a data analyst role or machine learning or data science and so forth um and vice versa you can be a data science become a database administrator so i like this one because of the flexibility behind it and not only that it doesn't necessarily require you to have a degree got it number 17 on the list now this is one that is very controversial um data scientists okay 98 thousand dollars a year that's what uh they have as the median salary um and then on top of that it does have pretty good job growth but it's not listed on bls so uh what are your opinions on data scientists um glorified data analysts um i like the career these are big data experts and so forth but they glorify data analysts in my opinion i think that's going to continue to or we'll put it like this shape i think that the title is going to change overall and we're going to see a new version of this it may transform into a database administrator it may be a data scientist 2.0 whatever it is um i'm not as sold on data sciences role as much as i am on some of the other roles that we've talked about here got it yeah and you know if you look at bls you look into the uh you know the data and the placement everything a lot of the people who become data scientists do have master's degrees at least that's what happened in the past but that just goes against everything that tech is about in my opinion having this kind of like barrier where you're like oh you have to have at least a master's to get in uh that's not what tech is all about in my opinion but with that being said you know the the numbers do show that a lot of people who go into this role data scientists uh do have master's degrees uh but there's many people who get into it uh with bachelor's degrees and there's people who even get into it without a degree they you know become a data analyst maybe they move into data engineering and they eventually become a data scientist companies also incentivize people with uh the role names because you know there's some prestige attached to being a data scientist versus a data analyst and so they'll kind of incentivize different roles by just calling the data scientist role data scientist when in reality it's very similar to a data analyst role so there's a lot of controversy there definitely um but still i'd say overall very good career uh to get into number 18 on the list is going to be database developer uh 96 thousand dollars a year here doesn't show the job growth but again going to have pretty good job growth for sure uh what are your thoughts on this one another good one another good one as well Shane uh and you can you know become a database developer if you are a developer and you like to work with SQL or database management system so I like this one uh another role that you can transfer from as being a database administrator as well if you want to become more technical so a lot of the flexibility that the database administrator data analysts and so forth has you would find that in a database developer as well too and great numbers I mean like 96 thousand dollars I mean that's a good median annual salary I mean like I would take that any day um you know uh versus coming out of college making 48 thousand where I started my career absolutely and there is so much opportunity uh with databases for sure um I remember I've told this story on my channel a few times but I've met this database architect he was working in I saw him at like Starbucks in McDonald's uh where I was studying when I was in school and uh he would he would be there all the time and so finally we you know we saw each other a bunch of times so we talked to each other and uh yeah he'd just be he'd be working and and just doing his thing and he was a database architect and uh eventually I you know I asked him kind of like the details of his career because I was just really curious about it and you know he was making well over 200 thousand dollars a year and he told me he worked about 10 hours a week he told me some weeks he'd be working more some weeks he'd be working less but yeah it's one of those jobs where it's just a super valuable skill set um and he didn't really have to do too much except for you know certain times when when something happened he would have to work a little bit more but a lot of the time he was working five to ten hours a week so yeah really really good one there um computer systems analyst is the next one on the list uh 93 thousand dollars a year job growth is about seven percent so what do you think about this one I love this one Shane because this one is basically you think about a computer systems analyst these guys are consultants these guys are the ones that are working and understanding new technologies not doing deep dives on this technology understanding the code level but they can right but they really understand how to make systems work together and therefore you can go into sales so I think this is a fantastic role that exists out there for individuals who want to stay on the latest and greatest technology who like to help people solve problems if who wants to make a lot of money uh computer systems analyst I love this one got it and then number 20 on the list network and computer systems administrator media manual salaries going to be about 84 000 job growth is five percent which is slower than average so what are your thoughts on this one I like this one too I like this one for people in their early careers because you know you're somewhat of a jack-of-all-trades you're you know helping with you know the network you're helping with a little bit of cybersecurity you're helping with printer installations and computer patches and so forth this is a jack-of-all-trades role and you can gain a good foundation in information technology from this sort of a role so I like it and as it continues to as technology continues to change you're going to learn more about it so this is another one that I like now the numbers aren't as good as a computer system analyst because probably you're not customer facing but this one is a really good role as well to Shane that I give a thumbs up onto all right number 21 on the list is going to be mobile application developer median annual salary here is going to be 84 000 a year the job growth is not listed but pretty pretty good job growth I'd say here what are your thoughts on this one I like this one Shane but what I would say is mobile applications are starting to be easier to build meaning that a lot of this stuff is requiring no code you see a lot of companies creating no code software and so forth so this one is starting to fall further and further down the list for me but if you like to work on mobile applications and you want to work on video games or cell phone games or whatever it is this is a good one it will help you with creativity and help you learn a whole bunch of problem-solving skills so another good career I don't want to knock it but this one isn't as high on the list as some of the other ones that we talked about got it and then number 22 on the list web designer and specifically UI UX designer you can specialize in one or the other or both and median annual salary here is going to be 82 000 a year so this is one that I typically like to recommend to people who have their heart set on getting into an art related career you know their their their mind is just made up they're going to do their career as an art related career and this is one that I tell them to look into so what are your thoughts on this one I love this one too Shane and just for the simple fact of what you said this is for people who graduate with a liberal arts degree or a degree where they may not understand how to use it well if you become a web designer specifically in UI and UX you can help people with the layouts of web pages and so forth right and one of the things is that's very important is the interaction that people have with the technologies that they're experiencing and you will be a person that's helping with that so that's art in itself that's a good understanding of details and so forth I like this one I like this one for people who who want to get into tech that have a different sort of a mindset and arts a liberal arts sort of a I wouldn't say I would say somewhat of a collected sort of a mindset which really translates into this sort of a role got it and then number 23 on the list very similar to one that we already talked about which is a web developer 77 000 a year job growth is 13 percent which is faster than average do you have any thoughts on this one I love this one because it's a low barrier of entry Shane you don't know you no longer need a degree for many of this one these careers that we talked about or these roles that we talked about specifically for this one you can become a web developer self-study boot camps and so forth so I love this one for the low barrier of entry and not only that when you get into a role like this you will be able to expand it in your career into technology because you're going to be learning a lot of different things and working with different people so I like this one a lot so and I recommend for people who don't know where they want to go this will give you a good foundation as well too got it and then another one with a pretty low barrier to entry number 24 on the list is going to be data analyst this one 73 000 a year median annual salary and then doesn't show the job growth but I know the job growth is very very high for this one so uh what are your thoughts I love this one I love this one data is the new oil and what I would say is this is that you see that this is a role that's constantly being recruited for not many people who are asking me about the data analyst role you think about these guys they are consultants as well but they're consultants really on interpreting data and making stories out of data and so forth and this role can translate into many of the roles as a database admin or a database developer or a data scientist and so forth so I like this role low barrier to entry as well like Shane mentioned and you get paid a good amount of money got it all right well that's the list yeah Antoine and I were both pretty impressed with this list because it kind of got a little deeper than most of the like listicles you see out there on the internet career karma is a good website definitely go check them out also check out Antoine's channel Black Heights I will put that down in the description below all right well those are some great careers that we went over definitely some other ones that I'm seeing a lot of opportunity in as well they didn't really talk too much about cloud I think there's a ton of opportunity in cloud just like this just like different cloud related careers they might not even have a name at this point but companies like these roles are popping up at companies that's definitely where I see a ton of opportunity in the future as well but yeah great careers on here these are good ones to look into some of them are a little bit more analytical some of them are a little bit more customer facing where you're actually interacting with people and depending on your skills and your strengths and your weaknesses or what your passions are what you enjoy doing some of them are going to be better than others but this is a really good list definitely check it out I'll link that down in the description below as well thanks for watching the video and I will link to an interview that I did with Antoine right here I'll have that pop up right here so definitely go check that out