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- Where to go from help desk?
- Where to start with Amazon Web Service (AWS)?
- Careers that combine IT and computer science?
- What are the responsibilities/expected question for Junior Information Security Manager post?
- Finding a Job to Work on Hardware
- Friend has too much experience or is too old? He's trying to get a job as a Level 1 equivalent Tech Position in the school system.
- Looking for tips on internships and recession-proofing my resume
- I got a job! Part 2, electric boogaloo?
- Professional Musician Looking For The Right IT Job
- Route/Options for Remote Work
- Is it appropriate/professional for me to ask for extension to decide on job offer?
- Leaving school for a job?
- Career Transition from Business
- How much is too much
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified 2018
- Should I get certifications in college instead of studying for a minor?
- Career Boost
- Internship Questions
- Anyone work IT for a large hotel?
- Interview questions to ask employer
- I accidentally got into networking without any knowledge on it and now I've got too many years experience to back out. What should I do?
- Trying to get my foot in the door
- How to obtain an entry level IT position with no prior professional or educational experience?
| Posted: 30 Nov 2018 06:11 AM PST So I know this probably gets posted a lot but I feel my situation is different. I have my A+, associates in information systems and I got my first IT job in July. It's L1 help desk for a large retail chain. Well the thing that makes my situation different is that I've been getting over time since I started. I work 60 hours one week and 80 the next. I keep asking my manager when they're gonna take overtime away and he tells me don't worry about your OT. As expected, I get time and a half for anything over 40. I started at 17 an hour. I make 25.50 for anything over 40 hours. After taxes I'm getting 880 for my 60 hour week and 1250 for my 80 hour week. 4260 a month net. 51k a year after taxes. 68k before. I want this salary but I don't want to do it for 80 hours a week. Where do I go from here? I feel like any job I get is going to be a pay cut since they're not gonna give me 40 hours of overtime whenever I want and most Jobs above 60k are salary not hourly, and most of those jobs aren't jumps from a 6 month background in L1 help desk. Need to start developing my resume to move up. But where am I moving up to? This job is stupidly easy, I just don't get anything done at home since I practically live here. And I would like to not be on a phone all day. And whenever I go back to 40 hours here I'll be making 35k a year. Ouch [link] [comments]  |
| Where to start with Amazon Web Service (AWS)? Posted: 29 Nov 2018 11:45 AM PST Since most tech is now moving towards the cloud, I started to look into AWS. But I don't know where to begin. I know the entry level exam is for the practitioner level but I can't find any materials that aren't bone dry and aren't expensive. Does anyone know some good study materials? I did just make a "free tier" AWS account so I can have a lab to work with but don't know what anything does. [link] [comments]  |
| Careers that combine IT and computer science? Posted: 30 Nov 2018 08:02 AM PST TL;DR: I am a CS Major specializing in security, I have an A+ certification and I love building/troubleshooting PCs and Networks. I am good at coding and I like it, but not as much as hardware. I just got a position as an anti-phishing analyst, but I don't know where I want my career to ultimately end up, IT or CS? Please give me some careers that combine the two, to any extent, and I will research them. I'm a freshman computer science student, I plan to be specializing in security(mostly software, but also network security) I have an A+ certification and in January I will start working at a medium-sized tech company doing anti-phishing work. I love computers, I love building PCs, setting up networks, and learning about new technology. I also love coding, not as much as fixing and building hardware, but I'm just as good at it as I am at IT. During my first interview for my current position, they asked me what career I was looking at in the future. I said a system administrator, but honestly I've never thought about what career I want. I love IT, I'm good at IT, I have an entry-level cert in IT. I like CS, I'm good at CS, I'm majoring in CS, so what career do I take? A CS or IT focused one? My answer would be to find a career that includes both to a certain extent. Do you have any recommendations for careers I could research to see if I like them? [link] [comments]  |
| What are the responsibilities/expected question for Junior Information Security Manager post? Posted: 30 Nov 2018 10:03 AM PST So what sort of questions can I expect? Any pointers will immensely help! [link] [comments]  |
| Finding a Job to Work on Hardware Posted: 30 Nov 2018 09:40 AM PST Is it possible to find a job as a paid intern that started college to get a job at some place that worked on hardware? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Nov 2018 09:39 AM PST My buddy (who doesn't use Reddit) shared his experience recently. He's in his late 30's and has made a career in the private industry with escalating management positions (field staff > team lead > manager > director > VP) He's ready for a career change and wants to break into IT as a last career and start at the bottom. Education background is not in IT, and recently got his A+ cert. No call backs, but has had 1 in person interview and he mentioned that the team there was really young (19-25 years; the manager probably around the same age as him) He has even applied for part-time positions. Overall, he thinks that the hiring team is wondering why this guy is going from VP to basic tech support. I told him, I would be wondering the same question and to make sure to include a cover letter briefly explaining why. Aside from that, what other advice would you help dispense? [link] [comments]  |
| Looking for tips on internships and recession-proofing my resume Posted: 30 Nov 2018 09:32 AM PST I'm a Junior studying IT, and am studying for my CCNA and Security+ in my free time. I'm working in tech support for my school but I haven't had an internship with a big company yet. I just want to make sure that if there is a crash when I graduate that I can be employable. Also, how much will a CCENT help me if I'm looking for an internship? I don't have it yet, but I expect to by the time I start applying. I'm looking at the telecom or cybersecurity fields. [link] [comments]  |
| I got a job! Part 2, electric boogaloo? Posted: 30 Nov 2018 08:59 AM PST So, a few days I posted that I had gotten a job offer, and was conflicted. I just wanted to post an update and to thank everyone for their advice! It helped me a great deal! I decided to take the job! I did talk to the HR about more money, she said it wasn't likely due to my lack of experience in the field...but after looking at their benefits/insurance, that was honestly the final nail in the coffin for jumping on. So again, thank you everyone for your help! And I'm sure I'll be posting here more in the future with a million more questions. [link] [comments]  |
| Professional Musician Looking For The Right IT Job Posted: 30 Nov 2018 08:52 AM PST I've been a professional Broadway musician for the past 15 years (I'm 37 years old.) For a variety of reasons, I'd like to transition into the tech industry and am looking for a job that would fit. Keep in mind I have 0 professional experience in the tech-world. What I do bring to the table is:
I use Linux personally and have no problem assimilating and applying the related tech materials. I thought some sort of junior sysadmin job might suit me but wonder if such a thing is even possible for someone with no professional experience. Friends have suggested going into web design or a coding bootcamp, but I'm frankly not interested in any kind of front end development and skeptical about the latter option. I do better as self-taught and can catch up on whatever protocols are needed with minimal guidance. I'm hard at work daily refining my skills and filling gaps in my knowledge. I'm learning basics in several programming languages as well. I'm not looking to make six figures out the door but I think I can be an asset to the right employer. Any thoughts, especially from a team leader who makes hiring decisions would be appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Nov 2018 08:48 AM PST So I'm a 15 year small shop, jack of all-trades guy. The opportunities in my area are few and far between and are generally internal hires so that makes it even tougher to advance anywhere. I'm starting to think I should be building a skill base which could allow for remote work. Trouble is, I'm not sure what route to take and which route wouldn't have me taking a large paycut. I have enough downtime in my life to do extra studying/certs and I'd work this over a 2-3 year plan. I have basic/rudimentary dev skills. Not too keen on Dev but if it is the only option I could explore more. AWS? Security? Some other area? Live in the middle-of-nowhere Canada if that matters. Thanks [link] [comments]  |
| Is it appropriate/professional for me to ask for extension to decide on job offer? Posted: 30 Nov 2018 08:12 AM PST Received a job offer last week. After some negotiation I verbally accepted the job offer and received the official letter two days ago. They are expecting an answer this Monday. However in the process of waiting to hear back about the negotiation/official offer letter. Another company reached out, went through a round of interviews and a coding exam, they would like me to come in Tuesday for an in person. This 2nd job does seem more interesting and comes with a high pay. Is it possible for me to ask for an extension at this point from accepting the official offer letter? Or should I just accept and wait to see if I actually get an offer from this 2nd company? Trying to determine best option here. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Nov 2018 06:08 AM PST I am about four months from graduating and have been applying for jobs like crazy. I may have landed an entry level position at a law firm in Colorado. If I was to accept I would more than likely have to quit school because I would be moving about 1000 miles away for this job. It seems like a good firm and a good opportunity. I am definitely going to try and see if my school will let me finish by telecommuting (90% of the class is self study and email shit in.) However, if this is not an option, should I quit, pack up, and move on? Also concerned about the dramatic increase in cost of living. I have about 15k in savings. What should I expect salary wise? They offer medical, vision, dental, life insurance, and 401k. Thanks in advance. [link] [comments]  |
| Career Transition from Business Posted: 30 Nov 2018 02:04 AM PST I'm hoping I may be able to get some advice on the best way to transition into the IT field from a business background. I am currently 26 years old and hold a liberal arts bachelor's degree and an MBA from a state university. Over the last 4 years since completing my undergraduate I have spent three years in internal consulting (modeling, financial analysis, etc) and 1 year managing a small operations team. During my time as an internal consultant I most enjoyed working on projects with our IT team and was hoping to find a way to transition into this field! Right now I have a lot of experience with Microsoft excel VBA, Tableau, and Qlik. I've been taking courses on Code Academy in Python and plan to branch out and continue to learn different programming languages and areas of computer science (I'm most interested in machine learning which is why I started with python). What I was hoping you all could help me with is to give me some feedback on what I can do to build up my resume. Are there certifications I should be getting or do I need another masters degree? I'm very excited about starting this transition but don't really know if I'm approaching it the right way. Any advice? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Nov 2018 05:29 AM PST I asked earlier about an issue I was having about my CIO. It's gotten a little more stupid in the past few days. I'll try to say this without letting too much info out. We've been running into an issue and I had decided how I would go about it without hurting users too much or risking anything breaking hard. I was going to have to call a vendor, but wanted to wait for a really long job (was going to take a couple days) to run before doing that because I was afraid that messing with it would break something (has to do with a replication of a really large server (several TB's) He said that was fine. For the next day or two he kept asking and I reminded him what I was doing and he said "ok" and that was a good idea. Finally, he forwards me a ticket from $vendor and says to call them because he already opened the ticket. This is the latest in a series of events just in the last couple months where I'm realizing that he says one thing and does something different. I would've been fine if he said "no, do it this way". He's the boss. I'm fine with that. What I'm not fine with is when he says that my way is fine and claims he trusts my judgment but then turns around and does the exact opposite. To me that says no respect at all. So, my initial response to this latest things was "Fuck it. I'm out" and to polish the resume and start soft looking at what's out there (answer recruiter e-mails, etc) but start actively looking yet. But, is that the right thing? I don't want to be somewhere where I am obviously not respected. But, I don't know at what point it's decided that the line has been crossed. I'm leaning towards thinking it's been crossed for me. I can live with disagreement. I can't live with complete disrespect. I told myself when I left the military I wouldn't stick with shit situations just because. There are plenty of jobs in my area. I don't see a reason to stay where I'm miserable. Sad thing is, this is the only issue where I am at. If I didn't work for him, I probably wouldn't even consider looking. [link] [comments]  |
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| Should I get certifications in college instead of studying for a minor? Posted: 29 Nov 2018 02:44 PM PST I am a freshman computer science student, with a concentration in cyber security and I wanted to minor in information technology. For my school, an IT minor means I'll need to take 4 extra courses. I'm finishing up my CompTIA A+ cert by taking the 902 exam in the spring, so I'll have an A+ cert by my sophomore year. I was planning on studying for the Net+ cert my sophomore year and the Sec+ my junior year. I don't know what certs I'll get during my senior year or any other certs besides the big 3 before then, the big 3 are the only ones I have planned so far. In my mind, those 2 certs will be just as much work as the 4 extra courses, and might be more useful, so I'll only go for the certs and not the IT minor. What are your thoughts? Is a minor more useful than the CompTIA certs plus any other certs I could get? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Nov 2018 03:56 PM PST What's the strangest/unique/memorable career boost you have seen someone get? Example: new intern just plays one round of golf with an executive and he gets promoted next month. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Nov 2018 07:38 PM PST Hey everyone. I have an opportunity for a cybersecurity internship, however, I've always enjoyed networking/sysadmin stuff a bit more than focusing specifically on the security portion of it all. If I took this internship, would I be hurting my chances at finding an entry level sysadmin job after graduation in any way? (I'm working on my BA in IS). Thanks for any feedback. [link] [comments]  |
| Anyone work IT for a large hotel? Posted: 29 Nov 2018 05:25 PM PST If this is not allowed here, I apologize and will remove. I'm wondering if anyone has worked in IT more specifically to desktop/Helpdesk at a large hotel? I'm trying to gauge what kinds of questions may be asked during a potential on-site interview [link] [comments]  |
| Interview questions to ask employer Posted: 29 Nov 2018 07:26 PM PST I have an interview coming up for a Security Analyst position for a casino/resort. I am currently a System Administrator in an unrelated industry and would like to come up with a couple of questions that would really wow them and make me stand out. Any suggestions? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Nov 2018 10:33 PM PST TLDR: I'm a mechanical engineer who got into networking. I have zero knowledge in this subject and I've already got 2 years experience. I don't know how much further I can progress before my identity is found out. What should I do at this point to keep up with this overwhelming amount of information that I need to learn. 3 years ago I graduated as a Mechanical Engineer, Bachelors. During that time I've been job hunting and looking for 'mechanical engineering' roles. Most companies did not bother replying at all, and a few would send the generic rejection emails. I started getting desperate and widened my search field to just 'engineering'. I even applied for 'software engineering' jobs even though I've never coded before. Because why not? I'll get rejected anyway. Well I was extremely wrong. I got a reply back from a fortune 500 company informing me I've made it to their next round of applications. I wasn't too worried at this point. OK so they were impressed with my resume, but as soon as they find out I'm not from a technical background in the coming interviews they would cut me off. But atleast I would have interview experience from a well known company. I was wrong too, I made it past the final interview because the interviewer was impressed that I was able to take care of my sick family member, draw on the side (my hobby) , have a part time job and keep up with uni work. Fast forward to on-boarding and orientation day. They made us fill a form on our interests and expectations from the company. Being an intellectual I wrote down 'networking '. Networking as in network with people because that's the only professional activity I know. Following day I get a call from a manager to come in to the client office to start my first project. As you guessed, this was a networking project and I was hired as a L2 data centre engineer. Not dealing with physical devices though, everything was virtualised so I was there to do configurations to support application teams. By this time I was in full panic mode. I had to read about tcp/UDP ip and all that jazz to keep up with what was going on. Luckily for me my manager was kind enough to teach me how to do the configurations based on the type of tickets. There were only about 16 different types of service requests, (load balancer, firewall, reverse proxy, vm uplifts etc etc) . I was able to learn pretty quickly how to do my job since it was very intuitive. If this press that, if that press this button, run this script if that happens, the tasks became really repetitive so even a monkey can do it given enough time. Fastforward two years I did my job well enough that I got promoted twice. Now I'm moving on to a new project. This project assumes I have 2 years experience with a more senior position in architecture /networking and brought me onboard to help diagnose some of their problems. I have no clue how to do anything in this new environment since my previous project it was all about clicking on places given very specific scenarios. Currently sitting here at my desk in my new project shitting bricks and reading up on new terms like SIP, SRTP, SMNP etc etc. What the fuck do I do... there's always some term that comes up which should be very simple for an actual network engineer but without that background and education I don't know anything and I don't even know where to start reading. Every search for a term leads to 10 more searches. I cannot for the life of me remember what the acronyms stand for, for me they're just vague indicators for what they do, but my tiny brain cannot comprehend how it's done. If anyone could give me a lead way for this fraudster that would be appreciated. I've watched Eli the computer guy on YouTube. Thought he was pretty good. Regards, QQ Technology Architect 2 Kms Street, MonkaS 1234 [link] [comments]  |
| Trying to get my foot in the door Posted: 29 Nov 2018 04:27 PM PST I am desperately trying to get into the IT field. Tech is and will always be my passion hands down. I just can't seem to get a foot in the door. I turn 31 this year and just turned down an advancement at my current job cause I'm trying to get outta there and into the field I want to be in that bad. I don't have any enterprise experience or any kind of certification but I have hands on experience. Years of troubleshooting my own fuck ups and other people's as well. Hardware and software upgrades. Some networking. Not like crazy homelab tho just standard home networking. Modern and router and running cat. Along with wireless trouble shooting. Ive tough myself alot over the years and I continue to learn now. I want to get the a+ but who has and extra 450 to drop on a cert like that when I can pretty much do already what the cert says. Minus a few things that I've never had to use in my freelance experience. I'm Not knocking the a+ cause I feel like the only way that I'm going to get in for an interview is to get it. I think along with not having my a+ the fact that pretty much any IT job in my area is a hour and a half away at the closest. Really plays into the fact I can't get in for an interview. But honestly I don't know. It's discouraging truthfully to steady apply and never hear anything. I mean I know that's how it goes sometimes but damn. Can't someone throw me a bone 😂ðŸ˜ðŸ˜‚ðŸ˜ðŸ˜‚ðŸ˜. Just let me sit down and talk to ya. I could sit here and list everything that I can do but that would be kinda pointless I think. I'm just looking for some help. Not like give me a job help but put me on the right path. What am i doing wrong? Is my resume that bad? Is listing freelance IT work hurting me? Which is the only way I can think to incorporate my knowledge into something tangible. Idk any and all help is welcome. Thanks for taking the time to read and reply. http://imgur.com/CqlhnvY (res) [link] [comments]  |
| How to obtain an entry level IT position with no prior professional or educational experience? Posted: 29 Nov 2018 12:51 PM PST I've been a baker for about 4 years now, and the hours are taking a toll on me and this isn't something that I want to do for the rest of my life. Tech and troubleshooting is something that I've always enjoyed and been good at, but never considered as a career path. The problem is, I have no professional or educational experience to add to a resume, aside from tinkering, fixing, troubleshoot, etc., with my PC and other tech at home, which doesn't seem plausible enough to add to a resume. I've searched around and see A+, Security+ and Network+ seem like the best certifications to study for and obtain, but is there something I can do in the meantime to get a job sooner? What can I do to get my foot into the door? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance. [link] [comments]  |
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