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I got half of my A+ certification before deciding fuck this and going into a different career. I can code very simply, I have very basic networking skills, and I use none of it. I'm amazed at people who can do it but I am not cut out for IT anything I don't think. Too much work.
I'm a big believer that computation should be a skill we learn in school. I think a lot of normal people would benefit from being able to make some simple scripts in python for personal use or even just for fun. I hope you don't always think that the coding skills are useless <3. That said I agree the networking stuff you can throw out the window! I know enough to know that I will never fully understand how network topology works. Every time I get to the /24 or whatever that's called my eyes start rolling.
Not just computation, but algorithmics. People should learn how to break down any complex task in a suite of simple, logical, deterministic steps and conditions.
At least it would help me stop getting requirement written in "human logic" that are literally impossible to implement...
As a network guy at work, it took me a long time to grok it, but now it amazes me how poorly these concepts are usually taught. They're actually fairly straightforward in concept. Oh well, it means I have a secure job, and most people don't really need to know.
Shit, brother, I got into IT largely because I'm too lazy to do mindless shit over and over the hard way. It was a strong motivator to learn regex and coding in general. I automate that shit and then I fuck off with the time saved.
Or at least I used to. I was too good at it so now they want me to keep other developers from fucking off all day, and that's a lot of work.