You can spend six months doing everything that looks productive in IT and still be no closer to a better job. Finish a course. Get certified. Build a lab. Watch hours of technical content. You’ll know more than you did six months ago. You might even feel like you’ve made serious progress. Then you open LinkedIn and realize you still don’t know what job you’re applying for. That’s what I call knowledge entertainment. It’s not necessarily bad. Learning technology is probably a better use of...