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- Least Stressful IT job
- Big Data, Data science, data engineer and data analytics
- I have listed everywhere on LinkedIn and my resume that I am a systems administrator and I do systems work. Why do so many recruiters keep contacting me about coding jobs?
- Surviving in Silicon Valley as a non-developer
- Start new job tomorrow as Network Administrator.
- Is it actually worth it to jump into IT at 30?
- Which path would my skill set best transfer to?
- How did you balance online gaming vs learning and starting in IT
- How do I tell my manager I'm not a developer?
- Most difficult position you've held?
- I have three years experience and a associate's degree. I work as a sysadmin at MFP and I do quite high end stuff but I feel IT lags in pay.
- I want to know if I can major in ISDS or if it is too late in college to change
- Information Technology vs Network Administration
- Looking for career advice and getting my foot in the door in the IT field.
- Funny answers to IT interview questions
- Completely hopeless recent grad, contemplating ending it
- Any IT Jobs near NY?
- Recent college grad advice
- Resume Critique
- What IT jobs lie between technician work, and admin work?
- Are there alot of jobs for 2nd shift IT?
- Career crossroads. Advice needed
- Should I try to get into system administration?
- Long Term Career Progression: SRE/Cloud Engineer/Architect v Solutions Architect / Pre Sales Engineer
| Posted: 02 Jul 2018 04:14 AM PDT Been working at a level 1 help desk for a few months and not a fan of the stress. In addition, I'll have to start being on call for 24hours a day for a week at a time on a rotating schedule. My main problem is dealing with people....Anyways, I'm just wondering what the least stressful IT job everyone has found to be? [link] [comments]  |
| Big Data, Data science, data engineer and data analytics Posted: 02 Jul 2018 08:20 AM PDT Good day everyone, is it just me or do I see this pop-up during job search, I have tried doing some research but it seems from day to day the line between data science and data engineer becomes thinner, intact now I don't know which is which anymore except maybe data analytics. I would like to ask what is the typical profile(skillset) of each of this fields based on your experience and knowledge. Thanks for answering me in advance .. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Jul 2018 04:53 AM PDT It's starting to get really annoying. I'm not a coder. I don't want to be a coder. I think it's because in a few places I say I know Python, Javascript and I can interpret Java code. I can script. I just am not a full stack developer and frankly I don't want to be. Should I just cut all the languages out of my LinkedIn profile and resume? [link] [comments]  |
| Surviving in Silicon Valley as a non-developer Posted: 02 Jul 2018 06:18 AM PDT I currently live in North Jersey in the NYC metropolitan area. I am majoring in MIS and work in my university's IT department as student desktop support. I've roughly mapped out my post-graduate career path as desktop support > junior sysadmin > senior sysadmin, with the possibility of eventually moving up to a managerial role. I've always wanted to live in California, mainly due to the weather. Lately my dreams have been tempered by what I hear is the reality of California, mainly the exorbitant cost of living even compared to North Jersey. I'm still on the fence about moving to California because I really can't stand the climate in the northeast. I'm interested in San Jose or somewhere else in Silicon Valley. I've also flirted with the idea of living in San Diego. I would be more in the suburbs of these cities as opposed to the downtown areas and would be willing to commute as long as it didn't take a huge chunk out of my day. With that in mind, is living in Silicon Valley sustainable if you're not a programmer? I'd also be interested in the non-dev IT roles in other SoCal cities. [link] [comments]  |
| Start new job tomorrow as Network Administrator. Posted: 01 Jul 2018 02:10 PM PDT So am starting new job tomorrow, in a local broadband company that uses wimax technology to deliver broadband connection. I have been working as an ict technician for 10 years now in various different roles so have plenty of experience accross the board. However I have never been in the position as network administrator before. Anything I should know ? / Be prepared for ? [link] [comments]  |
| Is it actually worth it to jump into IT at 30? Posted: 01 Jul 2018 03:04 PM PDT I'm 30 and am trying to make a career change to IT. I've been studying for certifications but I have no background or a degree in IT. I grew up too late and I've had several jobs that led to nowhere and an irrelevant Masters I probably will never be able to pay back fully. It is my understanding that while it doesn't matter as much in the beginning, people will prefer those with a degree over those who only have certificates later on. After getting Comptia A+, I plan to start from the bottom as IT help desk, despite I currently have a stable (yet terrible pay with no advancement) job right now. But after that...then what? Will I be 40 then who can't move up because I'll be considered old with no degree? My only guess is that the retirement age for IT is lower than average? Any stories of people who jumped into IT not as a recent grad? I wish I started this career path sooner, even a year or two sooner. My insecurity is killing me; asking for a friend. [link] [comments]  |
| Which path would my skill set best transfer to? Posted: 02 Jul 2018 09:24 AM PDT I have almost 20 years of experience as a maintenance tech in manufacturing (the last 14 have been for the same company). Most of my experience involves electrical troubleshooting, AC voltage up to 480v, DC voltage up to 48. As well as working with Allen Bradley PLCs and RS Logix 500. Not long ago we integrated SAP into the corporation and I was given the responsibility of installing the kiosk ( Lenovo all in ones paired with a printer), maintaining the RF scanners (mostly just using SOTI MobiControl to reflash the profiles) and label machines. For some reason my plant decided that I am now the go to person for everything IT related and now am expected to do all the plant level IT duties. While I can do things like add a printer to a PC,retrieve a prior spreadsheet in Excel, and swap hardware, I am also being tasked with helping with more complex issues such as installing APs and making modifications to networking equipment. While I can follow the directions given, and make the repairs, I do not have a thorough understanding of what these parts do or why they failed. Honestly, there are several pieces of equipment in our closet, that I'm not even sure what they are or what functions they perform. I'm headed back to school to take some Microsoft networking classes and hoping to follow that up with a CCNA (our switches are made by Cisco), so I can have a better understanding of what I'm working on. The excitement of heading back to school has also gotten me thinking about possibly changing fields. I love troubleshooting electrical and PLC problems and would love to find something comparable in IT. My wife's company is also trying to get her to relocate and manufacturing is not plentiful in some of the areas they are located, so this seems like a good time to explore other options. TL:DR Will electrical and PLC troubleshooting skills transfer into IT, and if so, where? [link] [comments]  |
| How did you balance online gaming vs learning and starting in IT Posted: 02 Jul 2018 09:18 AM PDT I bet many of you was or still online game addict , what was your strategy for studying and earning certs and your love for gaming? [link] [comments]  |
| How do I tell my manager I'm not a developer? Posted: 02 Jul 2018 05:16 AM PDT Position: Business Analyst. I'm on the lower branch of a consulting company that deals with a lot of data from clients. Our bread and butter is reporting. My manager saw the php and html on my resume from my college projects and assigned me to learn python and build them a data cleaning bot in about a month. I've been trying to stay optimistic about this since they are in between projects and don't have much for me to do, but I came here to be an analyst not a developer. I can learn things fast, but honestly I suck as programming and don't think I can meet these expectations. It's my 4th week here and I haven't really done much besides trying to learn and create stuff in Python, I'm getting a little weirded out. How do I tell my boss that I'm not a developer? [link] [comments]  |
| Most difficult position you've held? Posted: 02 Jul 2018 08:42 AM PDT I see alot of post asking for the community to post dream jobs, easiest jobs, easy paths, ect. I wanna know the toughest jobs you've had, not ones you hated but just the most challenging! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Jul 2018 07:45 AM PDT My question is if I want to get higher pay should I go get my bachelors and I was almost thinking about getting it in programming with a side of cyber security. I already have my mcse and vmware certs. [link] [comments]  |
| I want to know if I can major in ISDS or if it is too late in college to change Posted: 02 Jul 2018 06:55 AM PDT I'm going to be a junior at a big SEC school and I am currently in economics. My friends brother just graduated from here, with a Masters in econ and got offered 50k starting + a company car, idk how much of a difference that is. This led me to rethink my choices at the beginning of the summer when I found that out, so I started looking at accounting and ISDS. I think with both, I could get a bachelors, then either the CPA or A+ and security+, and both of these would give me a pretty safe job out of college if I have a solid resume with it. So I started looking for ISDS internships. I got a job on campus working with a database they made, but it is basically just doing entries all day, not learning very much. I kept looking and my school has an IT help desk for Jacob's engineering. I just got offered a job there that I will start on the 23rd. I was hoping to get a job like this earlier in the summer, so that I could see if I was miserable or not for a few months. I am worried because I don't know much about computers. I know how to use them and more than the rest of my family but I've never build one or looked at the parts for one, things like that. TLDR: In econ, it doesn't provide the career I thought it would, want to change to ISDS. I will be a junior in the US next month. I don't know very much about components of a pc or anything more than the basics really. Just what I know from using one daily. Is 2 years enough time for me to learn everything I need to and to get enough work experience? I start a job at my university at a help desk on the 23rd. Edit spelling [link] [comments]  |
| Information Technology vs Network Administration Posted: 02 Jul 2018 12:41 AM PDT Hey guys, I've been a long time lurker of the Reddit community as a whole and bit the bullet to finally make an account. I would also like to preface that I did try the search bar, both subreddit specific and site-wide, as well as Google and I don't believe I found anything quite like my current quandary. Sorry about the wall of text. So without further ado, I need your insight! Right now, I recently accepted a position for IT Help Desk and I'm excited to start. I lost my previous job almost a year ago and this will be my first step into this field. In the offer letter it is said I'll learn/work with Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Active Directory, VMware vSphere, Wi-Fi and networking among other things. During the interview, some other duties that I can't recall right now but gave the picture in my head, sound like they are on a higher level than what I previously thought Help Desk would do. This isn't a bad thing as I want to learn all I can but the title kind of downplays the role. (Maybe later on once I learn the full scope of the position I could ask/negotiate a new title that would accurately represent what I would be doing.) My plan was once I was able to get any IT position I was going to start school and do both at the same time so by the time I finished I would have a couple years experience in addition to having a degree. Win-win, right? Well the internal roadblock I encountered is the community college I plan on going to have the options of: -Computer Information Technology A.A.S. -Computer Network Administration A.A.S. -Healthcare Technology A.A.S. -Computer Support Specialist Diploma -Microsoft Office Professional Certificate -Mobile Application Development A.A.S. I have been told that I should go for a general AA so I am able to transfer to a state university to get a bachelors degree. I plan on moving in the next year or 2 across the country (new employer does not and will not know this until the time has come) and by the looks of it the AA most likely would not transfer to an out of state school, plus I'm not sure I can/want to do 4 years of schooling straight away right now. So what I think I should do is get an A.A.S then if I end up deciding I want to continue schooling, I do the extra year for the generals part of the education (then totaling 5 years instead of 4) and specialize. I looked at the classes for the IT A.A.S and they seem pretty basic and not too in-depth while the Network Administration was a little better. (This is just how I personally see it and not and not a rating from somebody or something) The others I don't think would really be anything I should waste my time and money with. I'm also old enough now that FAFSA does not include my parents income which means I can qualify for grants that I otherwise would not have even though I had not been living with my parents since I graduated high school and they paid for nothing, but I digress lol. I believe if I did the math in my head correctly, I should be able to do at least 1 year free-ish/heavily discounted and pay with cash for the second year. I should add that I currently have the CompTIA IT Fundamentals cert and the A+ cert. In my head a milestone, or goal-post if you will, is to become a SysAdmin and/or possibly do Cyber Security. (SysAdmin more so than Cyber Security) I don't have any concrete plans laid out for the path I want to take since the field, as well as myself, is ever-changing so I may need/want to change direction as time goes on. What are your guys' thoughts on the direction I should take? I welcome any and all thoughts, advice or questions you have for me and I appreciate any help I may receive. Also, if there is anything Reddit specific I have forgotten or missed in terms of how I should do things, definitely let me know so I'm not the idiot trying to push the pull door lol. [link] [comments]  |
| Looking for career advice and getting my foot in the door in the IT field. Posted: 02 Jul 2018 06:38 AM PDT I am looking at jumping into the IT career field and need some advice from people who are currently or have walked this path. I'm currently employed at Best Buy in the Geek Squad department as a CA (Consultation Agent) my primary tasks there are to be the front lines when it comes to interacting with clients. I greet & check-in clients at the front counter and field any questions that they have. During that check-in process I capture a a few notes of the issue they are having with their device and present them with the options that they have in terms of getting the device fixed. I plan on attending a technical school this upcoming fall that will allow me to obtain my certs in CompTIA A+ and Network+. I currently live in Florida but when I obtain my certs I would love to move back home to Oklahoma and start my IT career there. [link] [comments]  |
| Funny answers to IT interview questions Posted: 02 Jul 2018 02:42 AM PDT What funny or stupid answers have you given in an IT interview? If you are an interviewer, what funny or stupid answers have people given you? [link] [comments]  |
| Completely hopeless recent grad, contemplating ending it Posted: 01 Jul 2018 03:45 PM PDT 350+ applications and I've gotten maybe 3 calls back from recruiters that don't respond back to me when I tell them I can't take an offer for a part time position that would pay me less than the college job I had, which would eat up maybe 90% of my paycheck to commute there. Please don't refer me to a hotline or whatever, I just want to know if there's an answer or a trick to finding a job that I'm missing out on. You might think it's my resume, but I've posted it several times on here, gotten good feedback, was told that I should not have issues finding a job by several users here, and I don't want to reveal it anymore because I'm afraid people could identify me after this post. I don't know what to do. Every day I wake up is filled with shame and regret that I let it get this way. I don't know why I thought sticking with my college's awful IT program was worth it. I ended up getting a 3.5 GPA and interning at a few places, but I'm still left feeling like a complete idiot that doesn't know what I'm fucking up. How are other people getting jobs? I scour Indeed, LinkedIn, Craigslist, Glassdoor, Monster, etc. for entry level help desk/support jobs every single fucking day for hours, only to get an email telling me to eat shit forever. People tell me I have excellent social skills and I've always felt comfortable doing interviews, but I'm not getting any. How many more applications do I have to send out before I can finally accept an offer to pay off all this debt? The only source of comfort in my life at the moment is seeing other people having the same experience as me at r/Unemployed, but I'm coming close to snapping. It is essentially impossible to stay positive knowing I have crushing interest rates raping my future life, receiving rejection email after rejection email, the same fucking story about there being a better candidate for the position, and being left in the dust to repeat the same process ad nauseam. Yes, I have a roof over my head and I am able to feed myself. I appreciate this greatly and I know I should be using this opportunity to study to expand my skillset. But, I can't afford anything. Factor in a nagging mom that wants me to fuck off out of the house to a retail job that's even harder to find and to commute to and I just don't have the patience or energy for any of this anymore. Every retail position just tells you to apply online, only to be told that they are not accepting applications anymore. All my savings are going towards paying off credit. I want to take a break from this but I don't feel like I even deserve comfort anymore. I wish it wouldn't be so hard but I can't even get a minimum wage job. What are my options? I have tried being persistent and applying/calling places back, with no reciprocation. I don't know why this is so hard but I don't think I can keep it up. I'm sorry for sounding like a pussy but I have exhausted my options and my view of this life has permanently changed for the worse. I am a crankier, worse person than I was two months ago. I have zero hope and interest anymore and don't want to do anything besides just finding a job, but it appears that I can't even flip burgers without sucking the dicks of five people working there and having them in my phonebook. Somebody please help me deal with this piss earth. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Jul 2018 05:40 AM PDT I am highly interested in IT and Computer programming related jobs (Have basic knowledge of C programming) and i believe I can learn anything to do the necessary job. The setback is i don't have a related degree. so any entry level positions where i can grow and learn and begin a career would be a great help. I can also work a week for free as a trial. Thanks [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Jul 2018 05:18 AM PDT Hey there, I graduated from IU (Indiana University Bloomington) a full year ago with a bachelors degree in Informatics and a minor in Music. I learned mostly Python, SQL, C#, Git, HTML, CSS, And Illustrator. I was an Assistant instructor for two semesters in an advanced python class, developed a windows application in C#, and interned at an independent record label for 6 years. I have gotten interviews at a pretty reasonable rate, but have continued to just barely not make the final cut because of lack of professional work experience. That always seems to be what it comes down to. These are mostly entry level jobs so I find that kind of odd. Either way, while the search has been exhausting, I think part of me not having a iob yet is me not wanting it quite badly enough. None of the jobs I end up applying for truly excite me, only enough to apply. However I'm aware that this is normal when looking for a first job. My passion definitely lies in the music industry but I am in no rush to get there, as I already run a small record label on my own and that is enough for me. When it comes to my first professional job, I am most interested in opportunities to move up, starting salary, and the usefulness (or relevancy i suppose) of the software/language I'd be using. Ultimately I'm not sure why I'm posting but it feels great to get this off my chest. I'd love to hear some advice from anyone. What kind of job sounds good for me? Are my expectations too high? Could my lack of passion be seeping into these interviews somehow? I still live in central Indiana, but am very much open to moving somewhere new. Thanks for reading :) -Jake [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Jul 2018 04:51 AM PDT I am a recent college graduate, looking to enter the IT workforce. I do not have much experience that is relative for IT, but I am in the process of obtaining my CompTIA A+ certification. I am just applying broadly at the moment while studying for the certification, but know that that will help my chances at obtaining a help desk job. I would love some critique on my resume! [link] [comments]  |
| What IT jobs lie between technician work, and admin work? Posted: 01 Jul 2018 08:35 PM PDT Aside from, like, an IT Manager. I'm currently at an MSP, low on the totem pole, soon to be fresh out of school and plan on working on certs post graduation. I really do love IT work but I'm worried I won't cut it for higher tiers, in part due to the inherent stress those positions hold. I also have come to realize just how much there is out there that I do not actually know, I plan on sticking with this and progresses as well as I can, but I was curious what jobs are out that are half IT, half sales, analyst, marketing, etc.? The bottom line is I am at the start of IT road and I have a lot of forks in the road I can take depending on where I want to be, so I guess I'm asking what sort of paths are out there. Fully IT or a mixture or whatever. Thanks in advance! [link] [comments]  |
| Are there alot of jobs for 2nd shift IT? Posted: 02 Jul 2018 02:40 AM PDT What are they? Iv heard noc and soc positions that can be 2nd shift. Il be graduating in the summer of 2019 with a BSIT. [link] [comments]  |
| Career crossroads. Advice needed Posted: 01 Jul 2018 04:51 PM PDT Last week, I received some good news and bad news. The good news is that I passed the Sec Ops 210-255 course, earning a CCNA Cyber Ops certification. The bad news is I found out that I will not be getting the Systems Admin position that I applied for internally at my current employer. They want someone with more experience to help out the other Systems Admin. Let me give you some background on my IT career. I have been in IT for three and a half years. I work in Southern California. I have worked help desk and desktop support. My current position is a hybrid help desk/desktop support role. I make 60k with good benefits. I have CCNA Cyber Ops, CCNA R&S, and the CompTia trifecta. I have worked for current employer for two and a half years. We support 400-500 employees. I am one of three help desk employees, with three other admins(two sr. and one jr.). Before me, two other help desk employees had been promoted to jr. systems admin around the same time/two year mark of employment. One of the jr. admins left about three months ago, making me think I would have a shot at moving up. Initially, his work got split up between the three other systems admins. A couple weeks ago, I saw the position posted on the company job site, so I uploaded my resume. This week, I was called into a small board room where I talked with the IT director and the Sr. Admin. They said they appreciate me applying, but that they needed the person with more experience. The Sr. Admin said he wanted to include me in projects in the new fiscal year(After June 29th) and I can learn the infrastructure and how things work. On one hand, it felt good to know right away that I won't get the job, so I can stop worrying about it. It also was nice, if they live up to what they said, that they will give me this experience to learn. I guess I find myself losing patience. I have a five year plan. I am sick of working on the help desk. What would you do if you were in my position? I am thinking about staying for a little while to see if they live up to their word, but there was no promise of a promotion at the end of this or a time frame. My current plan is to start sending my resume out around January 2019. I would like to stay until March, when I can get an extra 25% vested interest in my 401k match. Do you think I am waiting too long or do you think I am not giving them enough time? I want to move on from help desk to either systems or network admin. Eventually, I want to get into info sec. Thank you for taking the time to look at this long post. [link] [comments]  |
| Should I try to get into system administration? Posted: 02 Jul 2018 12:13 AM PDT I'm sorry in advance if this post is dumb, I didn't know where else to search for valid advice (also sorry about my English, is not my language). So I have been using linux since 2010 (ubuntu, fedora, #!) but I didn't really never went too deep onto it, I just used it (I know how to use the terminal and all that). The thing is some months ago I got myself into an interview for something related to networking, they were asking for Spanish, programming, and knowledge about linux, so I applied, I didn't get the job. But I started to get interested in all this about networking and stuff (fun), and now I'm preparing to get the linux certification, then maybe AWS certification . The thing is my knowledge about hardware is very limited, never build a server or stuff like that, also I'm broke so I can't afford that. Also i'm gonna start uni in the field of health so this two are completely unrelated. My question is, should I try to get into this and find a job? Can I find night jobs or remote jobs if I start so I can go to uni? Do I need to buy servers and stuff like that? or should I just abandon this? I also thought about abandoning uni and just get into this. (also I tried asking in the sysadmin sub but my account is not old enough) [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 Jul 2018 08:11 PM PDT Hi World. xpost from /r/cscareerquestions What are the objective pros and cons of taking a technical heavy career path versus that of a sales path? ie if you could either be a purely technical architect versus a solutions architect, who deals with sales and business and clients, which might you choose, and more importantly, why? How hard is it to switch between the two, especially from sales back to pure tech? How is the pay throughout the two different career progressions? I'm at a crossroads. I'm a highly skilled cloud infrastructure and operations engineer who works for a top tech cloud consulting firm on great projects. I get emails from FAANG on a monthly basis, and have previously received SRE/Production Engineer types offers from them. I know I am a technically proficient in a highly valuable knowledge domain. All of the hottest tech is what I seemingly work on. CI/CD pipelines, IaC, Containers (Kubernetes), obviously cloud, multicloud. I'm also very proficient with coding and programming and linux/networking fundamentals. I have a impressive number of certs to match my experience with formal "stamps" of approval. I have an opportunity to try a pre sales type role, specifically a Solutions Architect role, for my firm. I would be matched with sales folks and help understand customers needs and talk them through finding a technical product or implementation that could solve their business need. Doing small PoCs, running meetings, training, lots of calls, that sort of thing. This role sounds very interesting, for the following reasons:
Having said that, I am also hesitant to make the move to the Pre Sales role. My primary concerns are:
Has anyone gone through a similar situation? Any wisdom from those wiser than I? Thanks in advance. [link] [comments]  |
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