If i wanna move to some based eastern european country one day, getting decree in IT might be my best bet. I have tried applying as UX/UI designer however you can only study that here in Lahti so it would be terrible tactic to apply to only one school.
Honestly you can pick it up. You’ll need to understand and apply what is a for loop, a class, a map, a set, http request, snmp request, byte vs bit, ip 4 vs 6, what is a container, what is a vm, internet vs intranet, port forwarding, rate limiting, load balancing, network shares, maybe elasta search queries.
That’s mostly it. In the states a lot of vets get hired as network engineers without degrees. They sometimes have it experience in the military.