IT Career [Weekly] What would you like to know Wednesday? General Question Thread |
- [Weekly] What would you like to know Wednesday? General Question Thread
- What is the life of an IT employee after being fired from a company?
- WGU grads, how did your degree help you and do you recommend?
- HR interviews are so frustrating
- I feel like I will always be a junior engineer...
- How To Handle IT Inventory
- Advancing from the Helpdesk
- At a crossroads and not sure how to proceed
- Advice for a possible future transitioning US Navy Officer
- I (18) want to become independent FAST and IT is my best bet
- Network Engineering/General Networking jobs
- Trying to land Help desk role but feel like I am wasting my time applying for jobs since I currently have no certs and no experience. Feeling stuck.
- Anyone learning or adopting blockchain technology?
- Are the paid courses necessary for entry level certification exams, or am I able to source the information on my own and schedule an exam for myself?
- Looking for greener pastures
- 31 year old school but no exp. Not sure where to start
- IT - Options for career entry following college
- What should I add to resume to fill in a resume gap?
- Google IT Certificates
- MSCA certification training question
- Developing mobile apps to earn additional income, anyone done this successfully? How much can you realistically earn?
- Any experience with networklessons?
- Am I doing something wrong?
- High school student transforms to programmer
- How far would/have commuted for your job?
| [Weekly] What would you like to know Wednesday? General Question Thread Posted: 28 Aug 2019 01:18 AM PDT Not every question needs a backstory or long explanation but it is still a question that you would like answered. This is weekly thread is setup to allow a chance for people to ask general questions that they may not feel is worthy of a full post to the sub. Examples:
Please keep things civil and constructive! MOD NOTE: This will be a weekly post on every Wednesday. [link] [comments]  |
| What is the life of an IT employee after being fired from a company? Posted: 28 Aug 2019 05:26 AM PDT Like majority of graduates I've started early searching for jobs in my area then I thought to move to Bangalore where I stayed with my friend for 4 months to look for IT jobs but didn't find any , then I join for a course in NIIT where I've completed CCNA ( thought to go for programming but I was not really good at coding as it was always intimidating or frustrating for me), I've got a couple of interviews through their placement cell which was for HP and Aditya Birla. Unfortunately, I was not really good at communicating I was not able to clear the rounds. I still remember those words from that lady ( interviewer) from Symphony - "We will call you if there any vacancy where communication is not mandatory " those words frustrated me furthermore. An year went by and continued jobless, I came back to my city ( Kerala) helped my dad in his business meanwhile, I started looking for job locally in my city but that was of no use. people around ,and family keep asking about my situation which gave me more pressure, then I thought to go for programming again as it has got more job opportunities (though it's not interesting for me), I did java programming and leaned something new but it didn't boost my confidence level meanwhile there was a jobfair going on locally and I've attended the interview, a week later I've got an email from the employer saying that I was selected and for further processing I need to sign a bond with a DD of 150000r.s, I went there it was in Trivandrum, company name was ( givionsoft technologies), Signed the bond, started my first employment where the next episode of tragedy started. I didn't have much work to do and there was no training as well, two months went by and we've got salary on time. by the end of third month our senior employees started making problems as they're complaining about salary and training issues, we went down to the management but there was nobody at the cabin , we realized something fishy was going on . There was a coordinator from the management, he asked us to write a complaint letter and file a case against the company at local stations. In a nutshell , company management cheated upon us and took everyone's money. I had no idea what to do, didn't have the courage to discus with my dad as it was his hard earned money, things were getting worst. I went back to my home and somehow I managed to explain him everything, everyone was so angry at me. Finally, My dad managed to get me a visa to Qatar through a relative, I've begun my job hunting routine in Qatar. Each day was so important as you're not allowed to stay more than 3 month in the country in one visit otherwise you've to come for new visit which will be again very expensive ( Room, flight ticket, other expenses..) , Every day I used to go for job hunting, by the end of third month I've got an interview from an employer, that was job which requires basic computer skills. My visa got over and I went back to India after couple of weeks, I've got the offer letter from employer and within a month I flew back to Qatar. This employer was a contractor for a semi government company in Qatar. I've worked under a project as Data operator ( Football application project ). After four year by the GOD grace and prayers from family, Our contract transferred to that Semi.govt company and our salary got tripled. I've completed under new contract about 4 years. When I had the job and good salary I used to spend a lot for myself at the same time for my family as well. Even I invested my savings in different businesses too. Though there was no profit, I didn't loose the money I'd invested. With my salary I managed to buy a house and a car. I'm married with two kids of 5 and 3. When writing this story I'm jobless , this makes me think of Circle of Life- which goes like - "It's the circle of life One thing for sure, when you loose something you learn a lot of things. Though I'm little frustrated at the moment I'm quite happy too cause I had 8 years of best time in my life. GOD knows what will be next. I know my writing are not so great but it's far better than few years back. Don't loose your hope, Happy job hunting. All the Best. [link] [comments]  |
| WGU grads, how did your degree help you and do you recommend? Posted: 28 Aug 2019 09:16 AM PDT I'm in my mid 40's and thinking about getting my degree. WGU seems to be my top choice but I'm interested in some feedback from those who attended. [link] [comments]  |
| HR interviews are so frustrating Posted: 28 Aug 2019 04:22 AM PDT Formatting is crap as on mobile will sort later just need to vent lesson for people interviewing please make sure that you don't fall into the same trap as I have got my self into 5 years into my career Just finished an interview and it had made me so angry! I had a telephone interview last week with the lead tech and got a reply that he was very impressed with me and I scored very high on the questions. Went to the face to face interview today with another lead tech and their HR director. Went through all of the tech questions and the tech looked impressed with how quick and detailed I answered. Then onto the HR questions.... HR - do you have a lab at home Me- I have virtual box installed on my PC and regularly spin up test machines and an old machine which I use for a domain controller for testing. HR- so you don't have a lab then? HR- why don't you have any certs Me - I am studying for 2 right now and hoping to have both my the end of the year HR - no certs, how can we tell that you actually have experience then... HR- the pay for this job is up to £35000 what do you want Me - well I would like 30000-35000 HR - how much do you get now Me - 28000 HR - well we can't offer you what you want since you don't have an aptitude to learn in your own time Then it went on. The lead tech showed me out and told me I did brilliant on the tech questions and showed good character HR blocked again. Damn me for letting my CCNA lapse [link] [comments]  |
| I feel like I will always be a junior engineer... Posted: 28 Aug 2019 05:35 AM PDT This is a difficult post for me to make, so forgive me if it's a little all over the place. I'll say upfront that I've got some depression/self-esteem issues that I'm seeing professional help for, so I've very well aware that this might all just be in my head; nonetheless, I just wanted to get this off my chest and see if any other technology professionals went through/are going through the same thing. I feel like I'll always be the junior engineer, and I'm really fucking tired of being the junior engineer. I'm tired of feeling like it wouldn't make any difference if I was here or not. You know that feeling when you're with a group of people talking about something; you wait for a lull to contribute to the conversation, but right as you speak up, others start talking over you and ignore you? Or what about that feeling when you're in the same group and they're talking about X, and you have something to contribute about X, but before you can even get a word in edge-wise they move onto topic Y. You can interrupt them and say "going back to X, I wanted to say..." but then they look at you like "wtf? We're done talking about that, we're talking about Y now". I get that feeling a lot at work. It reinforces the narrative I've told myself, that I'm the junior engineer and nobody respects me for it. I've been at the company longer than 90% of the people on my team, yet I'm the junior. I started in a general IT department, rose through the ranks in that, and pivoted to a more specialised technical field because I got tired of fixing Janet's Outlook issues. I didn't go to school for technical stuff. Everything I know I've taught myself and learned by observing others around me. Yet that means I've started over at least twice. I had to start from the bottom again when I decided not to pursue what I studied in university any further. I had to start over again when I pivoted to another technical field within my company. It's been a few years since that pivot and I still feel very junior. The worst part is that I know what people will say to this, and I understand and agree with all of it, but it doesn't make it not hurt. I know that being surrounded by people with more skill and experience than you is an amazing learning opportunity! I know that if you're the smartest guy in the room you should leave and find some place where you're not. (Implying that if you aren't the smartest guy in the room, stay and learn) I get it, and I agree! (I can't emphasise this enough) I'm happy to have this opportunity, but at the same time it fucking sucks to feel like you're not worth very much, to feel like you don't contribute anything of substance. "Then go out there and ask what you can do to make an impact!" I am! I'm always looking for ways to try and make a contribution. When I'm not at work I'm studying and teaching myself and trying to apply these skills to make an impact, but I still feel several rungs below my colleagues on the skills ladder and it sucks. You ever get the feeling that everyone else around you is on the same page, but you never got the memo apparently? Maybe it's a bit asp-y of me, but I feel that way a lot when trying to find impactful projects to work on. I find something that I can do and that I think will be a good contribution, but nobody else seems to think it's a priority, which makes me feel like my work is worthless. That or priorities change and nobody tells me until I've already spent a good amount of time working on an issue. Either way, I never feel my work is valued, which re-enforces the idea that I'm the junior engineer. I'm also terrified that people will find out how little I do know, despite all the time I've devoted to studying. (I know this is called "imposter syndrome") Combine this fear with my feeling of being the junior, I typically stay quiet during meetings. "Better to be silent and let people think you're an idiot than open your mouth and prove it" I tell myself. Maybe I'm learning too slowly. I know people on my team who you can show something to them once and they remember it forever. I need to see something a few times and do it myself, and then if I go a month without doing it, I completely forget. I think this is really inhibiting my progression. I've been in this new role for almost 3 years now and I still feel useless. Unfortunately I realize that the only thing I can do is suck it up, bite my lip, and continue trying to learn, continue trying to improve, continue paying my dues and putting in the time, and then someday maybe I won't be a junior anymore and people will respect me, but until then it fucking sucks. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Aug 2019 08:17 AM PDT Hello, I need to go through my stock of IT inventory, ewaste all things we don't plan on keeping/reusing and organizing all of our stock equipment. This is a task that my entire team has been putting off for years at this point. What are some of the general guidelines in keeping equipment? For instance, we have a department that has 40 or so employees, who use a specific kind of HP desktop. How many of those desktops would you recommend keeping on hand in inventory? I feel we might have somewhere in the ballpark of 30-40 spare machines to cover 40 employees. Over the course of my time working in this office, things have been fine, until about a year ago one of our offices in LA closed, and they shipped all of their (10 years worth) of IT equipment to my office, and we are stuffed to the gills with stuff. I am hoping someone can shed some light on percentages maybe, things like x% of desktop computers per hired employees, x% of keyboards per employees. Please help, there is a literal mountain before me and I am drowning in old tech [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Aug 2019 02:05 AM PDT Hi! For those of y'all who are past the help desk (admins (network, systems, etc), analysts, programmers, etc), how much of the help desk knowledge did you really need to know before moving up? I ask because I currently work nights on the help desk and 80% of my tickets are account unlocks and password resets. I plan to switch to days early next year to learn more and get more hands on experience but want to know how to go about advancing exactly. How long were you on the helpdesk before moving up and if you didn't start at the desk or moved up super quickly, how did you do it? [link] [comments]  |
| At a crossroads and not sure how to proceed Posted: 28 Aug 2019 07:04 AM PDT Hi guys, I've gone through a bit of a weird road to get to where I am. I have a BS in economics and am currently pursuing a MS in computer science part time. I work full time at a small trading company with the title of "trade support engineer", however i do a small mix of support work and sysadmin work in a Linux environment. This is where things get a little hazy for me. I'm studying to take some AWS certs on the side because I'm trying to pivot and work with the cloud. I finished the cloud practitioner cert and I'm looking to take the AWS certified developer - associate in 2-3 weeks. I don't have much experience when it comes to coding and planned on teaching myself python and writing up some small projects after I got the developer certification. What do you guys think is a good path for me to take? Should I be looking for a new job as a developer first? Or search directly for cloud roles like cloud engineer/cloud developer (or more junior cloud roles)? My end goal is that I want to end up as a cloud devops engineer. Thanks in advance for any responses :) [link] [comments]  |
| Advice for a possible future transitioning US Navy Officer Posted: 28 Aug 2019 06:10 AM PDT Hello all, first post after lurking for quite some time. I apologize but this is going to be a very long post for background purposes. Still with me? alright, I enlisted in the navy in 2010 as a CTN (Cryptologic Technician Networks) For those who don't know it's a job where you conduct Computer Network Operations (Cyber Attack and Cyber Defense) My path took me the Cyber Defense direction. I was at Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command for 2 years working on a 24 hour watch floor conducting Network Tier III analysis searching for incidents on Navy Networks. During that time was able to gain the following Certifications: Net+, Sec+, Certified Ethical Hacker, Linux+, and a few minor CISCO/SANS that are now out of date. Following those two years I decided to attend the US Naval Academy and obtain a BS in IT. (The only programs offered were Comp Sci and IT, the only real difference between the two were 3 course networking/network security/Web Dev vs AI/Robotics/machine learning) I chose IT because I had the background in Computer Network Defense and to be honest I didn't have a strong desire to learn how to code THAT much. Really though I consider my degree a CS/IT degree because they are so similar. I am very familiar with Python, Java, C, C++, android studio, HTML, and PHP with Web Design and SQL database integration. After Commissioning as an Information Professional Officer Job Description. Essentially right now I am on a ship managing our entire communications shop (Radio side: RF communications, etc. and IT side: Our network and user administration side, as well as running our network security program HIPS, firewalls, etc.). This is also my first leadership role of around 15 Information Technician sailors which has DEFINITELY been a learning experience. I also am the Information System Security Manager responsible for the audits, accreditation, and security of all of our systems onboard. The future. I am very torn about whether or not I want to stay in the navy and here is the reasoning as to why. I have 4 years of enlisted service time, my initial obligation is to serve 5 following my commission so that puts me at 9 years. One of the requirements (If you read the link I put above) is to obtain a technical masters. As of now I plan on attending the Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey and obtaining a Masters in either Network Operations and Technology or IT Management. Following doing that I am obligated to serve at least 2 more years if not 3. I obviously do not know where my career goes from here, but the general path will obviously be being promoted. Taking on more leadership/program responsibilities, going higher up the food chain. Performing a variety of jobs. (Could be Cyber, Communications, Space, Acquisitions, etc.) I don't know yet. What I do know is I am going to try and stay as technically relevant as possible. I plan on obtaining at least my CISSP, a MBA related to IT possibly, other important certs I can't name off the top of my head, and anything else I can get my hands on. The Issue. All of this will put me at 11 years of service. At 20 you can retire and have a pension/health benefits for the rest of your life. (If I retire at O-5 my pension pay with my 50% disability would be around 5K a month). Then I could begin looking for a job elsewhere. While that's hard to say no to, I am not sold on this plan. I know how good the market is out there currently and to be honest while I have absolutely zero qualms with the navy, but ship life is very tough, gone for weeks/months, working 100 hour weeks regularly, etc. I would have to return to a ship most likely around 3-4 more times following this to promote to the point I would be able to retire like the above scenario. Also, the further and further I go up the food chain in the military the further and further I am distanced from the technical side of things. I feel as though my job prospects in the civilian world will continue to dwindle as I get older and put more into a direct leadership role. My question. Can anyone on this sub speak to being in an IT management/Leadership role, their path to getting there, what they think about my job prospects, etc. I am also 100% willing to hear anyone else's advice as to what I should do moving forward. I am also torn about what career field is truly right for me, whether that is IT management, InfoSec/InfoSec management, just general program management at a tech company, or should I just stay in 22 "retire" at 44 and go search then? I appreciate all the insight random people on the internet can offer. Some additional facts, Currently hold a TS/SCI clearance, GPA wasn't great at the academy 3.1 (I had a lot of personal issues I was dealing with for a year so my grades definitely slipped, as well as there are many other mentally draining things you have to deal with on top of taking 23-24 credits a semester, I am also just not the best at school), I have interned at the NSA, Booz Allen Hamilton, Raytheon doing a variety of different things such as malware analysis, reverse engineering, and other things I can neither confirm or deny ;). My senior capstone project was working on DARPA drone swarm technology coding on both the U/I in XML and in python for the actual tactics themselves. Just so everyone knows this entire self-reflection/self-crisis was brought on by the posting of the IT roadmap yesterday in this sub and me thinking about where I would come in on that as I transitioned out of the military. So a big THANKS to whoever posted that. Additionally if anyone has any questions regarding my career so far or anything I have done I will be more than willing to answer them! Thank you to whoever made it through this small novella and I appreciate your attention. edit: Some grammar. Some clarification on my true question. [link] [comments]  |
| I (18) want to become independent FAST and IT is my best bet Posted: 28 Aug 2019 08:10 AM PDT Greetings, I live in Spain, Im 18 and I need to get out of my home because reasons, getting a job in my country its pretty damn hard. Since I was a kid I was into computers and stuff, I use various gnu/linux distros, I made a few mods, coded in lua a little bit, made small projects like a python calculator, recreated a small arcade game, made a small website, bots, etc. While I can fix computers and helped fix hardware and helped build pcs, I would like to focus on programming. I do understand problems while coding or at least I feel like I do, I know how to plan out my code and can debbug for hours without getting frustrated. Lets say starting tomorrow I study and code every day seriously (do courses, make projects), what should I work at? how long will it take for me to get a stable income? Like, 900$? Thats what I roughly think I will need to pay house, food, electricity, etc. to survive here. Will ask in other sub if im wrong later Also, I would strongly prefer if I can work ""online"" as I feel like im not finding anything near my area, I don't think I can afford going too far, and english is a language I use daily anyway. I understand if Im asking too much. Would that be possible on the level I could get in aprox. A year or am I asking too much? (I know I probably are) Would I take 2? 3 years? I feel like the sooner I leave my home the better. Any help is hugely appreciated. TL;DR: Im good with computers and want a job with enough to get me out of my house, what should I do or study? [link] [comments]  |
| Network Engineering/General Networking jobs Posted: 28 Aug 2019 07:42 AM PDT Hey everybody I recently passed my Network+ exam and am slated to attempt the Security+ exam. What other certifications should I be looking into if I want to work with data networking/administration or generally the field of networking. I think I found my passion but I would like to hear from ppl in the industry about what carts are generally the most employable in this field. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Aug 2019 11:09 AM PDT I REALLY want to get my foot in the door and start my IT career in help desk and at least be given the chance to gain some experience in the field. But currently I fee like I am stuck unfortunately until I at lest get my A+ cert. Its just kind of discouraging when I know Im kind of stalled and no one will give me a chance until I get the cert. [link] [comments]  |
| Anyone learning or adopting blockchain technology? Posted: 28 Aug 2019 10:29 AM PDT I work in the financial sector and find blockchain to be very disruptive to the industry. Just curious if anyone is learning to use ethereum or some kind of decentralized application over traditional databases. I've read where those with these skills are making up to 30% more compared to those without. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Aug 2019 10:17 AM PDT I'm very broke and in a dead-end service job, and obviously want out. I've been interested in I.T. for a long time, and am generally knowledgeable of a good bit of it, but I want to properly get certifications and try to start a career. Do I have to pay for classes related to each exam, or can I just take the exam on it's own? Thanks for any help [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Aug 2019 10:13 AM PDT I work as a one man IT team for a company and while the company is great, it does have it's drawbacks as with any company but hear me out. I work for a company that thinks they can get away with lowballing all of their systems and I don't know how I managed to keep this place running for the past 4 years that I've been here. It has a rep for going through IT people and they typically last 1 year before they move on. Reason unknown to me but i think I have an idea. Most of the staff is rude and they don't really care to learn. They are stuck in their old ways. Think, if it was 2006, they'd be up to date and futuristic. I've managed to upgrade most of what I can, including servers, networking, computers, etc... We have no formal structure. No helpdesk, no ticket software, nothing. Even if we did, I'm the lone wolf managing multiple remote sites, this site, and some more coming up. There have been major issues but most of my day to day consists of just random issues or monitoring our system to see what needs attention. Anything IT goes to me and I have done rewiring, installs, etc... Lately, it feels as if I am being taken advantage of in a negative way. The owner and the president of the company both like me very much, and the previous owner also likes me, EXTREMELY RARE, because I don't give anyone attitude. I just do my job and that's that but lately I've been given attitude as if I'm the bad guy for having to stop people from moving equipment without permission, or installing apps without permission etc... Normal I know but some people take it too far. My production team likes to tell me about projects at the absolute last minute and blames me if it doesn't get done in time, yet they give everyone else ample time. My HR guy yells at me for no reason. And the political talk in the office is toxic just to name a few things. What really makes me upset is that we are trying to fix some of these issues but they keep reverting back to their old ways. Production, for example, will give me time but they slowly start reverting back to last minute projects with impossible expectations. (granted I don't get the shaft for it, they do since our boss is cool about things like this) but the thing that really gets under my skin is our annoying HR guy. He'll yell at you for no reason in front of anyone, employees and guests. I got yelled at for following company policy, for doing what he asked me, for not replying to his messages within 5 min of him sending me, etc... I'm getting sick of always replying to him in a calm tone to not add fuel to the fire and he just continues screaming at the top of his lungs at me. Then he'll turn around and act nice to everyone as if nothing happened and he can do no wrong. He does this to me and to a few other select groups such as our maintenance team. I think it's time i move on to another company but I wanted to know from others, what can I do, where can I go, what if I'm not good enough for that company and I get canned, how do I proceed? I felt more comfortable working retail at times as sad as it is for me to say. I have my Degree in Computer science and am studying to learn programming again but I don't know what to do or where to go. [link] [comments]  |
| 31 year old school but no exp. Not sure where to start Posted: 28 Aug 2019 04:03 AM PDT I took a course for the comptia trifecta recently and I'm sure Exactly what cert should I get to get a job. I live close to DC so maybe security +? I'm interested in network security. Should I get a+ or network? Would that help me get an entry level IT Job? I dont care what I'm doing the first year as long as its giving me work exp. Please help lol. [link] [comments]  |
| IT - Options for career entry following college Posted: 28 Aug 2019 09:27 AM PDT Advice I am requesting: What are options for fast-tracked entry level positions in IT for jobseekers? What should one do to get those positions and where should they look? I am a college senior studying Mathematics looking to explore my options for entering an IT career during the upcoming job application season. Much of what I read for career entry is targeted at individuals with 0 experience and often no college degree so I am looking to find information for myself and people in a similar situation. At the time of my graduation I will have my BS in Math, a certificate from my university in Computer Science, an internship doing non-technical sysadmin work, and two years doing helpdesk/desktop support (imaging, managing user accounts, desktop troubleshooting, network troubleshooting, the works). The way I see it there are a few options presented to me and people in my position: Junior Sys. Admin Desktop Support Junior Operations Analyst Junior DBA My concern is that I have some degree of qualification with my studies and experience but no direct experience. So my interview would be something to the effect of "I've never done this before, but I promise I will be able to within a week, trust me?". I hope that my recommendation letters from my employers can help fill this gap. I also worry about being underemployed as I see a plethora of posts about people getting paid little hourly as an entry position which wouldn't work too well with respect to my college debts. My final question then is, is trying to get into IT right now a mistake? Should I try to pursue something more applicable to my degree? I really do enjoy IT more than I enjoy doing math/statistics/data analytics but the entry point just seems so intangible and odd. Thank you. [link] [comments]  |
| What should I add to resume to fill in a resume gap? Posted: 28 Aug 2019 09:19 AM PDT I have been out of work for 6 months. During the 6 months, I have been studying for my CCNA and going for my masters degree. How should I reflect this on my resume? Should I add a bullet point under my education section? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Aug 2019 09:18 AM PDT I am currently getting my IT certs paid by my current company and want to take good use of it I am looking into IT certificates that is around IT support and management Currently i have Comptia A+ and Netwokr+ and hopefully getting server+ on saturday This is my current plan Q4 2019 Q1 2020 Q2 2020 Q3 2020 Q4 2020 Ethical Hacker or CompTIA CySA+ I am also looking into maybe squeesing in Cisco CCNA Router and switching before they change it in feb 2020 My question is: I really want to get a more varied cert so atm i mostly have Comptia and Microsoft Certs Is there anything from Google ? I'm planning on during a tic/toc in 3month interval studying where a change between doing 1 "bigger" cert and doing ~3 small certs (like MTA) so i'm kinda specializing against security but also expand knowledge/certs into other areas Thank you [link] [comments]  |
| MSCA certification training question Posted: 28 Aug 2019 09:09 AM PDT So recently I passed my A+ certification I got help desk job, I'm halfway through my IT degree and I want to to get a MSCA certification because I see SQL everywhere and I figure it will give me an edge to try and get a system admin job, the help desk I currently work at is incredibly slow and the issues are incredibly easy to solve and there's a lot of down time most of my coworkers just play on Facebook or something but I want to study during this down time, is there away to get training for this test without dropping nearly a grand on a training course? Also if I'm making a huge mistake please let me know I appreciate your guys help. (I talking about the 20764 2016 MSCA sql test) [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Aug 2019 08:45 AM PDT C# dev here and wanting to earn more cash. Thinking about developing apps but wondering if there's any real money to be made. The type of thing I'm thinking about are general utility apps, such as sounds that help you to sleep, or a to do list, or advanced alarm clock... so relatively simple things rather than the next Facebook for example. It I'm thinking that if I have a good set of apps, either with ads or very cheap purchase fee it might bring it some decent cash. Have any devs here tried doing similar? Was it worth losing your weekends developing the apps?? How much are you earning? Could it become a full time business? How did you monetise them, do ads actually make you any money? [link] [comments]  |
| Any experience with networklessons? Posted: 28 Aug 2019 04:52 AM PDT I just started the Scaling Networks portion of my CCNA courses in college and my instructor referred us to NetworkLessons as an extra place to go for quick summaries and bonus lectures. The only problem is that the videos are only about 2.5-5 minutes long and are only clips of a full video that you can watch once you pay them $29/month. I'm just looking for a good place with video lectures to brush up on my CCNA as I want to try and get my ICND1 and ICND2 certs before the new changes. Reading isn't my strong suit so a good video lecture site would be incredibly helpful if there are any other suggestions out there or if this one has good reviews. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Aug 2019 07:57 AM PDT I've been looking for a new job for about almost 3 weeks, hoping to get an entry level network engineer position. I've been at my current company for a little over a year working as a controls technician, the nature of my work isn't necessarily networking 100%. But there are some networking aspects to it so I've been using those experiences to update my resume. I have a CCNA, Security + and an A.A.S in cyber security and computer networks. I live an the D.C. MD Virginia area which has allot of IT jobs, but so far I've only gotten 1 phone interview for a CCNP level engineer position I didn't have enough experience on the technical side so it didn't work out. By now I've been expecting to get more phone calls but that's not the case. Am I doing something wrong? [link] [comments]  |
| High school student transforms to programmer Posted: 28 Aug 2019 07:45 AM PDT Hi everybody, I need some advice from you, because it's pretty easy to get lost in the ways of learning programming. I'm 16 years old and "programmed" first at 13 in PHP. My overall is goal to become a junior developer before finishing school and to be able to work on some projects. I'm very interested and it would definitely increase my chances studying abroad something IT related (I'm from EU). Last year we had a great programming course in our school, where we learnt C from the real basics (modular programming, dynamic memory allocation, pointers, structures, functions, md arrays etc.) This year we'll start Java (OOP, OOP in practice, collection framework, javafx, java8) and next year year we will learn db managment (SQL, MySQL, Workbench), Java db technologies, Eclipse, Maven, Tomcat, JSP, Servlet, MVC, Springboot, Spring data jpa, spring security, thymeleaf. (Honestly I don't know what are these :D but you do) They said, that 2 years later (after the technologies above) we'll be on a junior dev level and potentially be able to search/work for projects. It isn't such an intensive course so I was wondering, if maybe I could try to do some other courses on the internet (I saw this: https://learn.freecodecamp.org - do I need to do the HTML first and then the JS and so on?) like web development or would it be just confusing/too much/trying everything but doing nothing really? I'm keen on web development (I started with PHP, so it's some love thing and the results are more spectacular) I'm really curious so I'm open for any advice and and I really appreciate them! Thank you so much!! [link] [comments]  |
| How far would/have commuted for your job? Posted: 28 Aug 2019 07:35 AM PDT I've been looking at jobs near DC/VA/MD area which is about an hour an half away from me. Is it crazy to think to commute that far with pay being 80% + higher than i currently make? Also hoping it would be possible to telecommute some days. [link] [comments]  |
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