IT Career System Administrator path? |
- System Administrator path?
- Burnt out
- What if I just want to work for a living? What if it isn't the ultimate meaning in my life? Am I in the wrong area?
- CCNA Worth taking for Entry Level
- let go from temp job
- Need advice
- Started as a IT coordinator at 22y
- Advice for upcoming IT internship interview?
- No IT/CS Degree Career Advice
- Switching careers - from lawyer to android developer - should i remove the past experience as a lawyer from my resume?
- Is my job title better than the one I applied for?
- How do I go from a client facing role to a more Technical, IT position?
- First day of my first real job tomorrow. What to expect?
- Cisco CCNA Cyber Ops
- IT career paths for those with strong interpersonal skills ?
- Become Self Employed: Ultimate Guide for an Independent Project Manager
- Where can I start looking to find out what the IT career OPTIONS are?
- Not sure the correct path to take for a good job?
- Should I expect to learn a lot of new things non-stop in IT without any planning?
- As a network engineer do you have a college degree?
- Help desk Written Assessment expectations?
- Post A+ Path Decisions
- Starting a new job soon and going back home on time during the first few months
- If I helped my High school install anti virus on their laptop's 6 years ago, should I add that to my Resume?
| Posted: 26 Aug 2019 06:53 AM PDT I am looking to change careers. I'm curious about the System Administrator career field. How would I get a job in this field? Do I need a bachelor's? Do I just get a certification and I'll get a job? How would I get experience? I want to learn more. Is this a good job to strive for? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 26 Aug 2019 05:38 AM PDT How do y'all deal with it? Having a hard time mustering up the energy to even respond to emails. Job is making me wildly depressed right now. Should have seen this coming, since I'm the solo admin with a bunch of other responsibilities including facilities. Been applying for jobs like a mad man. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 25 Aug 2019 12:53 PM PDT I've been working in mobile development for 3,5 years, so far in small startups (no more than 50 people working in them). The workplace is usually fine, flexible and all. You usually are in touch with a lot of people. I'm introverted, so I enjoy time spent coding by myself, but I will eventually need to talk to people during the day. I need to feel that Im part of a group at least. However, in all these places so far, there is this sensation that work has to be your god. It feels that if I'm not putting all my energy and effort into work, I'm wasting away my time. I put a lot of energy and dedication into it, I just don't enjoy spending 8+ hours at work, specially when there is a tight deadline. Also, all the responsibilities, big or small, are shared between all people, including about things you don't necessarily know/should know about (usually the developers need to know, beyond programming, design, business, organization etc.) So far, that's the experience I've had in these places and I feel I'm tired of it. What if I work mostly to earn a living, to do something useful with my time and that's it? No higher purpose, no utopic desires, no changing humanity. There is this (insane, in my opinion) thought that you must always want more and more, that you must sacrifice yourself to do things and achieve "greatness". The feeling is that if I don't like/complain about something, I'm in the wrong mindset (I'm starting to hate this word). All I want and need is to work somewhere I can do something useful, connect with people and learn new stuff in a healthy pace. I've been to interviews where the interviewer said the likes of "If you come here just to earn your wage and leave when your working time for the day is over, you're in the wrong place." Like, what? Isn't that exactly the reason most people look for a job? Must I love work, must I see it as the reason of my existence? I want to earn my living honestly and that's all, I'm not sure I need work to be the goal of my life. My goals in life are connecting with people, helping them in whatever way I can and enjoying life, having fun going out with friends, watching movies, gaming, travelling. Am I in the wrong area? Because it seems like a startup way of thinking. I like the flexibility and openness of startups, but the parts I mentioned have increasingly bothered me as time grows and it's been impacting my mental health more and more, because I sometimes blame myself for just wanting to go to work, do what I need and come back home, for not having a passion about what I'm doing. I greatly value things I do that are not at work, so I'm looking for a place with a good balance between work and personal life. Should I look for other kind of companies (other than startups) or even change my area? I like learning new stuff, but I'm not the person that is going to love getting out of the comfort zone all the time. If I am, I like it to be planned, organized and thought upon before happening. There is a misconception in startups about flexibility. They preach they are super flexible, when instead it feels more that things happen without planning and people manage to get things done (not always, not always in the best way) and they call it adaptability, flexibility, when, to me, it feels like a lack of organization. A building structure must be flexible enough not to go down if the ground trembles, but if there is no solid structure, its flexibility will serve of nothing and the building will fall, because it's not flexible, its structures are actually weak and frail. I'm fine by staying as a developer, when I reach senior status, I'll be fine, as long as I earn enough, I don't feel the need to keep going up the hierarchy, I don't want all the big responsibilites that a tech leader or a CTO have and I'm fine with it. However, I know that some people will judge me for not "wanting more". Other options I thought about for myself, in case of changing areas: I enjoy writing (and I'm good at it), I'm good with supporting and helping people (specially emotionally/psychologically), I enjoy teaching and mentoring people. I'd like to hear your opinion on this, because it feels to me sort of out of place that by doing what you're are supposed to do at work, you're not doing enough. I've been working at a company now for almost 3 months and I'm about to quit, because apart from all those things, I don't feel well there overall, I couldn't connect with the people there, it doesn't feel like I'm part of a group or that I'm learning as much as I'd like to. Also they don't respect the fact that I'm an introverted at all: they keep demanding me to go to happy hours/social events after work, to lunch with others (I enjoy having lunch by my own). It's been a hard situation. Edit: thank you all so so much for such considerate and kind answers. I've been going through a turbulent moment in my life and Im feeling better and less confused with all the valuable insights you have been giving me. [link] [comments]  |
| CCNA Worth taking for Entry Level Posted: 26 Aug 2019 10:24 AM PDT I recently got my A+ cert and was studying for my Net+. However, one of my friends said its better to just study for the CCNA R&S and take the two exams before they change in February. I wanted to know if this is the best route for me. My main goal currently is to get some experience as I have never had an IT job (and Im hoping the CCNA cert will increase my chances of landing my first IT job) but the end goal is to get into PenTesting. I'm a career changer if that helps. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 26 Aug 2019 05:31 AM PDT Hello it has been one year since I graduated from university and I was just let go from my summer temp job. I graduated with a bachelors in science degree and started a job in sales post grad. After 7 months of sales I finally realized it was not for me. I have been studying for the comptia A+ all summer and even implemented the information I learned from studying into the work stations at my temp job by improving the computers and increasing the work flow. I am taking the A+ middle of September, but was hoping to get some feedback. To see if its worth applying to help desk jobs before actually obtaining the A+. I want to get into cloud computing further down the line but looking at help desk or app support as a starting point. Any comments, questions, or advice is more than welcome. Thank you [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 26 Aug 2019 09:56 AM PDT I recently finished the Uni. For my last semester I needed to work as an intern in a company, develope a project and make a report about it. The company I entered ask me for the installation of a web server, so for my Uni I signed that my project was the installation of this server, and my report was about it. Weeks later they asked me for help them with a web page another interns were working last year, I was told they have a 90% progress, so I accepted to help them, because I thought I would learn Web development. Ah, I forget to say that I would do this all for free. The other interns leave the company to start working (and also getting paid) in other companies. When I started asking them what was the protect about, the two of them can't explain me what was about, ok first red flag, then I knew that both of them didn't work as a team, each one didn't know what the other did, second red flag. And when I looked at the project and it was a complete mess, the reality is that it has a 10-20% done, when I was told it was at 90%. I needed all the semester to do the analysis of the web page to know how was the right way do develop it (I can't tell why all the semester, I don't want to be very specific). They told me to work more on this web page than my real project that was the server installation, I as a fool I am, did it. Any way, at the end of the semester I did the report of the server I didn't completely install, because they realized it will be expensive so they decided to rent a cloud server. I passed the semester, and after the analysis I did about the web page, I had the conclusion that they don't need it, because they have already the tools to do what they want (Again, I can't be very specific about this). The thing is, that web page was a mess, me as a newbie decided to work on it and repair it instead of starting another one from zero, also I think I started hating web development because of this. Today, they are asking me to finish it, but it is not my responsibility, mine was the server they didn't wanted to install, the responsibility of this project are the two other students that were working as interns there. I'm working and also starting a business with 2 other friends, I don't have the time and humor to work on this website and also for free(Even if they pay me, I don't like this project, I recently have tried to work on it but I doesn't feel motivated to do it) But I'm afraid they will do something to stop me to receive my IT Title/Certificate. How can I approach to tell them I don't have the time and motive to still working on this web page? I don't know if I have to do it personally, or via email/messenger. [link] [comments]  |
| Started as a IT coordinator at 22y Posted: 26 Aug 2019 09:44 AM PDT Hi. Im 22y and recently I got a job as a IT coordinator in a business firm. Im interested in hardware, networks and troubleshooting workstations. What would be the path u would recommend me to take to go up the ladder. [link] [comments]  |
| Advice for upcoming IT internship interview? Posted: 26 Aug 2019 09:36 AM PDT So I applied to this information technology position a few weeks ago, and today they gave me a call back requesting to interview in a few days. The thing is I don't have any IT-related experience and I don't know if they will ask more technical questions or general personality ones. Of course, I didn't put anything on my resume that I don't know, only the things I have had exposure to through the various classes I've taken during my time at university. But I would really appreciate if I could be given a synopsis of what to expect, and the best way to prepare, as I really do have only a few days. Thank you all. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 26 Aug 2019 08:41 AM PDT 29 M, Chicagoland NW Suburbs, I have a BFA in Film production I got back in 2013 (Currently $45k in debt), worked for Geek Squad/ Best Buy for 11 Years, when I left I was @ $22/hr. Got my Google IT Professional Cert, A+, ACiT, & ACMT. Currently working a contract as a QC Technician thru a Staffing Agency ($25/hr) that'll be up with the option to renew at the end of October. *Been here 4 months.* I'm horrible @ math, not good at coding, and don't know any languages. What should I be looking for? I don't think Helpdesk will pay me the same or more after this gig runs out, I also dunno if I should be looking into AWS, Python & Java or if I should try to peruse a 2nd degree with University of the People *They're $1K a year* And if I do get a degreem should I get a Associates or a Bachelors ? Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 26 Aug 2019 03:53 AM PDT Basically what the title says. I`m a 27 year old guy, finished law school and became a lawyer for 3 years. For the past 7 months I`ve been learning Android development (Java/Kotlin) and I`ve enrolled into a Computer Science Bachelor program. Now it's time to apply for jobs and I'm not sure what's the correct approach here. Either remove the prior experience as a lawyer or keep it on my resume. The reason I'm thinking about removing it is because I'm afraid people might see it as a failure. (E.g. "Look at this f*cking schmuck trying to become a programmer with his law background...pfft) What do you guys think? Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Is my job title better than the one I applied for? Posted: 26 Aug 2019 06:44 AM PDT Bit of a silly question, but I recently applied for a role as a Cloud Platform Support Engineer, but once I passed the interviews and got my contract, it says I'm an Associate Customer Engineer. From what I've seen of a customer engineer role it's pretty good (mostly IBM stuff pops up) but it sounds a bit like stepping back into customer support. [link] [comments]  |
| How do I go from a client facing role to a more Technical, IT position? Posted: 26 Aug 2019 12:30 AM PDT Little bit of background I work at a well known software company and have a slightly technical client facing role that I've been at for a year. I'm losing interest in dealing with clients in this manner and would want to focus on development, or at least something more analytical. I've found that my peers are completely computer illiterate and I'm often the person they go to for data analysis, macros, simple trouble shooting, among other things... I'm very proficient in Excel and have serviceable knowledge of VBA, SQL, and have completed a coding bootcamp for a MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express, Angular JS, Node JS) along with intermediate + HTML, CSS, and Javascript skills. I don't have a portfolio up or anything, and I'm not sure what type of role I'm really going for here given my skill set so I guess I have two questions. How can I transition to a more techinical role coming from a client facing job? What skills would I need to solidify in order to confidently apply to these types of jobs? I'm in the process of identifying my weakness's, so any general knowledge on what I'd need to hone in would be great. [link] [comments]  |
| First day of my first real job tomorrow. What to expect? Posted: 25 Aug 2019 07:16 PM PDT Hey guys/gals, Starting my job tomorrow as a Desktop Support for a small-medium sized healthcare company, I am quite nervous as I don't think I know everything about the tasks of the job. There will be an orientation for my first day, but what else should I expect? What kind of questions should I be asking? As being someone new, how do I prevent not getting advantage of or bullied of? Any other tips or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 26 Aug 2019 04:18 AM PDT Hi every1 im system administrator i have worked linux,solaris,openstack,vmware etc and i have 7y of seniority. I have vmware certification dcv 5.5. Taking into account my story, is it a good idea to take the certification in question? or continue whit system? tnx PP [link] [comments]  |
| IT career paths for those with strong interpersonal skills ? Posted: 25 Aug 2019 08:46 PM PDT Hi all. Mid 30's guy just coming out of a 4 years Bsc IT at a major university. In my past career I was very people focused, and worked in higher energy teams. I have always had a familiarity with tech and enjoy explaining it to people with less technical experience. Additionally, not the best coder or extremely technical but also realize that I should focus of my strength of my interpersonal skills as they can be lacking in IT. Most if not all the advice here is to start at help desk and go from there. But as someone approaching 40 and some decent work experience under his belt I was hoping to hear about both positions in IT that are people facing(beyond simple tech support/desk stuff) and also how to possibly jump past the first few years of help desk and into something more formative. Thanks, [link] [comments]  |
| Become Self Employed: Ultimate Guide for an Independent Project Manager Posted: 25 Aug 2019 03:59 PM PDT Hey r/ITCareerQuestions, I'm writing a comprehensive, free ultimate guide for becoming a self-employed Project Manager. It is geared towards a PM, but has a lot of value for any IT'ers out there want to try feelancing. I'll share what I've done, what I've learnt that works and what I used to coach my clients to become a successful independent consultant. Bad news that surprisingly it takes helluva time! Good news is that at least I got down to it. Would you help me with the outline? Here's the outline I've come up with:
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| Where can I start looking to find out what the IT career OPTIONS are? Posted: 25 Aug 2019 10:37 PM PDT Basically I'm a beginner switching to the IT field. Always messed with computers as a hobby while I did blue-collar work. Now I want to actually make the transition into full time IT work so i started looking here and found a good place to start is to get my A+ a move to an entry-level HelpDesk job. I just passed the A+ now I'm stuck wondering what my next step is. I've seen lots of recommendations to get the Trifecta but I dont actually know what job title I'd be trying to achieve. I dont know which path I should take because I dont know what most IT professionals actually DO on a day-to-day basis. I'm wondering if there's a site of even a subreddit that discusses this kind of thing? I think short term I'd be perfectly happy being the office IT guy for some company but long term i dont know how to plan a roadmap because I'm not even sure what opportunities exist. Any help is appreciated [link] [comments]  |
| Not sure the correct path to take for a good job? Posted: 25 Aug 2019 10:31 PM PDT Hey, I've been browsing this subreddit for a few months, trying to get an idea about what I want to do. I'm currently in a manufacturing role in Baltimore, MD making $20/hr with lots of overtime (so much so, that it's impacting the quality of my life). I am looking for jobs in the Baltimore, DMV, and possibly NYC area. I have no degree but I am currently studying for my A+ certification. I am due to take the first part in a few weeks. I am also considering completing the triad (Net+ and Sec+). I've been looking at helpdesk roles, but I know I will be taking a pay cut. I was reading around here and it said that going into Cloud computing and DevOps would be a good idea. I'm honestly confused because all of this is so new to me so if anyone could explain to me how I could do this, I would greatly appreciate that. I am 29 years old and I am desperately trying to get out of this career before it's too late. IT has always been my dream career. Computer science was my major in college before I had to drop out because of money. Any advice is welcomed. [link] [comments]  |
| Should I expect to learn a lot of new things non-stop in IT without any planning? Posted: 25 Aug 2019 02:45 PM PDT It's ok and natural to learn new things at work, it's just that I feel that the pace is unhealthy for me (I've worked so far in small startups, up to 50 people). I'm not a fast learner when it comes to tech knowledge. I am very quick to learn things about culture, behavior and organizing yourself, but I need to organize very well and take some time to learn a new technology. I have been looking to improve it, but still, I feel that the required learning pace in tech companies is pretty fast and I feel the pressure to use my time out of work for that. I know I have to keep studying so as not to get obsolete, but if I need to learn something work demands, I feel that I should have enough time at work. Am I biased about the places where I worked so far? Or is it going to be like this wherever I go? Sometimes I think about going to another area, but it may be that the places I worked at are like this. I'd just like that learning was planned and organized. [link] [comments]  |
| As a network engineer do you have a college degree? Posted: 25 Aug 2019 12:27 PM PDT If not what kind of certifications did you get what entry level position did you start in? How long did it take to become one is college really worth it? [link] [comments]  |
| Help desk Written Assessment expectations? Posted: 25 Aug 2019 07:48 PM PDT Hey all, so I got a interview invitation for a HELP DESK TECHNICIAN position and in the email they mentioned there will be a written assessment during the interview, I'm curious as to what I might be expecting? What were your experiences as far as written assessment for a help desk/service desk interview? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 25 Aug 2019 01:44 PM PDT Recently my boss incentivized my continuing education for me to get my certifications. When I complete a certification, he has promised a raise of some sort. I have now nearly finished my A+ but the order I do my next steps is a little confusing. In a perfect world, I would be able to complete my Network+ and Security+ by end of year but I don't know if that is exactly possible. Plus, I think that it is very important to sit down and learn Powershell during that time as it is very important to how useful I can be. Note: I do plan to do all of it in time but I am trying to leverage my time right now for being the absolute best use. Quick addition: I plan to bring my completed certifications up to my boss around my evaluation in January for a raise so I think more certifications would equal more raise earlier but I would like to make sure I have applicable skills as well as can learn the material easier. Hence why I am asking. [link] [comments]  |
| Starting a new job soon and going back home on time during the first few months Posted: 25 Aug 2019 03:51 PM PDT Note: haven't changed jobs for millions of years. I may start a new job soon and I'm a bit worried going back home "on time". I still don't know the culture of this company but "some places" believe that if you work "over time" or "long hours" you are showing "dedication" and "initiative". And it may be a grey area even when the bosses worked long hours? I don't believe in working long hours, unless necessary e.g. production issues, catastrophic failures, angry customers, etc. Also, I'm super worried burning out even before reaching a year of working in the place. What do you guys think of this? A new joiner (who's also a senior), within the first few months (or even onwards), goes back home on time, even when their boss hasn't gone back home yet. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 25 Aug 2019 07:01 PM PDT around 6 years ago when I was still in high school the laptops at my school weren't too secure so I offered to install anti virus. Is that something I should include in my resume? I don't have much experience so my resume is less than half a page at the moment. [link] [comments]  |
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