What are some new careers for me?

What skills do you have? Budgeting? Managing a Staff? Project Management? Take the specific skills that you have developed that you want to apply in a new way and recast your resume.

IT Admin skills translate well into many technical fields especially computer science and electronics technology. Depends on what you want to do. Electronics technicians are in high demand, some places will hire based on relevant experience without the tech degree. Also some places will even hire and then send you to school.

I know you say you want to get out of IT and I can appreciate that, but have you considered leveraging your considerable IT skills and experience by contracting to companies who aren’t hiring or which need those skills for special, short-term projects? You’d probably be able to negotiate better rates than if you were a full-time employee, and you wouldn’t be tied down to one company. My former company used freelance IT services a lot.

What are you currently doing as a System Admin? That’s not a very definitive job description.

You say you got in when employers were hiring anybody who knew what they were doing. What did you know then, and what skills have you added? What sort of salary do you need? Are you willing to take less to escape the IT field?

It’s really not a question of what you can do with the skills you have because those skills will transfer to just about any field well enough to get you a start. You need to pick something out that would meet your needs (happiness, stimulation, money, whatever) and make that a target. Then build your skills to match, just like you did for your Sysadmin gig.

Customer Service, technical know-how, and analytic skills are basics that will serve you well anywhere, and every business has an IT component at this point. Build a bridge from here to there.

If you’re looking for a place to start, there’s something you enjoyed about systems administration that drew you to it in the first place. There’s probably some portion of your job that you enjoy now as well. Try to expand on that.

If you occasionally write scripts and enjoy that, you can follow that a long way with programming.

If you enjoy setting up networking architecture, that’s a huge field and very much in demand. There is so much training out there you could never learn it all. Get some.

If you like the web, there’s a million directions to go there and you can see the best in the world and exactly how they made their magic. Try something out.

If you find you really enjoyed learning new things and just miss that where you are now, maybe it’s time to go deeper with what you have. Attend a conference, get a certification, start a side project, join a trade group.

I don’t think anyone can tell you what will make you happy, find something that feels good and follow it.

If you are not interested in IT field so go with that where you feel comfort. As you said you don’t have a college education so its tough to you to find a new job in new place & specially when you are switching to other field.