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- Would anyone here be interested in a hands-on practical AWS Cloud Engineering course?
- IT Gurus - if you were to start your IT career again today, what would you do?
- What skills will I need to learn for this role? (Job advert isn't straight forward)
- I am 28 yr with almost 0 experience
- A Job in IT? Absolutely!
- Been told my resume is trash. Haven't found work... Maybe there's something to that.
- Security Internship Interview coming up
- First day. Expectations?
- How Do I Approach IT?
- Cisco Collaboration - where to?
- What would you hire me for?
- Non-compete agreement worth salary increase?
- When you would and wouldn't take a paycut
- Compensation Expectations?
- How to go about getting into IT?
- I want to pursue penetration testing, but where should I go?
- Asking for Benefits cost upfront
- Career Change From HD
- Question regarding new job
- Seeking advice. Going from Bartending to IT/CS in 5 years or less, at age 32.
- Does anyone work at one of the fabled places that "gets it?"
- Starting My First Entry Level IT Job
- Advice about switching from Software Engineering to Infrastructure role
| Would anyone here be interested in a hands-on practical AWS Cloud Engineering course? Posted: 27 Jan 2020 06:33 AM PST Just wanted to gauge people's interest. I myself have only 2 years of IT experience, don't have a degree, and managed to land a 6-figure Cloud Engineering position at a Fortune 500 company. Am super grateful to have landed this opportunity and I think I'd be able to help others do something similar while supplying industry-relevant practical knowledge. [link] [comments]  |
| IT Gurus - if you were to start your IT career again today, what would you do? Posted: 26 Jan 2020 01:56 PM PST As above; if you were to start your IT career again, what would you do. Which path would you take. I'm curious to know what your experience has taught you? I'm sorry I haven't found a similar topic in this part of Reddit. [link] [comments]  |
| What skills will I need to learn for this role? (Job advert isn't straight forward) Posted: 27 Jan 2020 06:38 AM PST The Job role is to support Networking & Infascturure A description of the role: "We have a range of roles where you can apply your understanding of end-to-end computer networks, platforms and infrastructures to gather and work with intelligence to counter risks or adversaries who pose threats. Whether analysing networks, remedying vulnerabilities on specific platforms or addressing security on larger infrastructures, if you understand how systems are configured, defended and thereby open to threats then we want to speak with you." When reading this I first think of Blue teaming and having a solid networking knowledge with experience as a sys admin. What do I need to learn to be able to do this role? [link] [comments]  |
| I am 28 yr with almost 0 experience Posted: 27 Jan 2020 06:25 AM PST Hello, I am as above plus I had to resign 3 times from uni on different stages so I didn't get any degree from any of them. I had one serious job as a remote research assistant in it-ish company where I was responsible for googling all possible informations (in terms of specifications like rpms, cache, memory etc in HDDs) about given products i.e. servers, NAS, smart home devices from thermostats to the central computers, warranties for many different stuff, every possible PC parts- cpus, gpus, rams, ssd, hdd, then routers, switches etc. Basically a lot of products that I had to study, then update it in company's database if it already was there, if not I had to make a new entry. I received excel files that told me which products exactly I had to look for and I had to filter them from the corrupted entries that our crawler mistook for the ones of interest, or the ones that already were up to date in database. All of this and more I been doing from my home, in Poland, for a company from London. That means I communicated with my team using foreign language and I had to micromanage myself. I worked on their pc's remotely via vpn. I am looking for job right now but the issue is I had this job like 2 years + from now and it lasted for 7 months. I honestly don't know what to tell or show the interviewers about this pause. In meantime I went through some hard times in my priv life, I am not fully ok with my mental health, I honestly became very lazy and tired of everything that is required by the system. I have trouble giving proper respect to my superiors - not that I am rude or something, I treat everyone as equal which is exactly something that people of big ego don't like. But I don't really want to pretend and just be myself. I know that this is not an usual case but I really really want to find a nice paying job to give my girlfriend a life she deserves. Through my brake I also worked on a few projects that didn't work out, for example three online stores and one of them was supposed to be a dropshipping business model a other rather a classic approach, started to write down my idea for two pc games that I hope would be something new but simultaneously I don't believe I can finish them with my little funds and help from my close ones which are wonderful people but inexperienced just as I am in this topic. I also have described few app ideas but don't know where to start. Basically I am a dude with lots of ideas in my head but because I think of new ones so fast I don't even really begin any of them. Well now that I spoke loud about it I feel better so even if you guys wont think of anything, any advice for me that's fine, I am not normal nor easy to deal with. Ok, hope that I didn't bore u to death, thank you up front for any constructive criticism and advices and for reading all of this. Cheers! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 26 Jan 2020 06:42 PM PST I've read several posts recently inquiring about how to get started in IT, with additional questions regarding which IT path to pursue. Wether just joining the workforce or transitioning from another career, here are a couple of thoughts to keep in mind from someone who's recently been down this road. First, a little background to qualify this post. I worked several years in various industries taking whatever job I could tolerate to provide for a family. No job was IT related. Once my children moved on to college I decided to focus on what I wanted to do and I knew that involved technology. I explored a few disciplines and focused on system administration. Specifically, I wanted to build systems and networks. I enrolled in college at 41 years old, obtained a couple of certs, and finished one semester before an out-of-the blue IT position opened up in this sleepy little rural town we called home. I actually thought it might be a scam but I replied to the ad and got the job. It was with an MSP but I served as a dedicated tech to a specific client who had an office in my town. It was about as glamorous as you can imagine. First line support, desktop and printer troubleshooting with a little network management sprinkled in. It was horrible, but it was IT, and I was on my way! Fast forward a year and our family decided to move to another state for family reasons. I landed a Help Desk position with a solid MSP in a metropolitan area. I was on help desk for about three weeks and I was approached to fill an opening for a field tech. I jumped on it. The company continued to grow and I continued to learn. Today, after 5 years in IT, 4 with my current company, I am designing and building information systems and networks as a member of our project team. Now, on to the message. So, you want to get into IT? Go for it! Before you do, commit to the process. Wether you're looking for your first job, changing careers, have a degree, or no credentials at all, you WILL HAVE to get experience, you WILL HAVE to earn some certs, you WILL HAVE to start at the bottom. You, almost certainly, will start on a help desk. Unless you have really good connections, then you might start in a technician role. Take the job and LEARN everything you can! The easiest way to learn the trade is exposure. The greatest exposure comes at an MSP. Why? Because MSPs have their hands in almost every discipline. Systems, networks, security, applications, the list goes on. I once heard the knowledge of an MSP tech is a "mile wide and an inch deep." It's true, as much as you want it to be true. It's up to you to expand the depth of your knowledge. One caveat to this approach is if you already know what you want to do, then find a job within an internal IT department and dig in. You'll still likely be first line support in the beginning but your opportunity to focus in a specialized area will be greater. There's not a lot of database admins in the MSP world, in my experience. Furthermore, find a good company to work for, even at a lower starting salary. A company that values YOU and supports your career through training, education, and work-life balance. They are out there, and they are hiring! That's my two-cents and I'm sure there will be some who disagree, and that's perfectly fine. It's a unique journey we're all navigating, enjoy the ride. Good luck in your job search! Now go get IT! [link] [comments]  |
| Been told my resume is trash. Haven't found work... Maybe there's something to that. Posted: 27 Jan 2020 09:33 AM PST Granted, there isn't a lot of work available in my region right now... but y'all be the judge. Any tips? https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/294406342867681280/671404523834703894/0.jpg [link] [comments]  |
| Security Internship Interview coming up Posted: 27 Jan 2020 06:28 AM PST Hello, so I'm about to graduate from a 89 week Sys admin course, during the course I've obtained my MCSA: Windows 10, Project+, A+, Net+ and currently studying for Security+ I've recently learned that Security is where I'd like to go. So I've got an internship starting at a Security company and I'd love any tips I can get for this interview. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Jan 2020 04:44 AM PST I'm 33 and today is my first day to a new career! Left a back office banking position to work on the macro/tech team (before you ask, it's a huge bump in pay. Most I've ever made). It's VBA and I've always wanted to go into this field, but have zero experience, but they're taking a chance on me. What are some tips/ advice/ expectations should I take going into this field? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Jan 2020 09:57 AM PST Hi Everyone, I am a new grad who actually majored in Rehabilitation Science (pretty much pre-Physical Therapy) and actually want a career change. I have spoken to many people about how I should approach getting into IT and to make thing short, my current path that I want to take is a Coding Bootcamp that will help me get a coding job after the Bootcamp is finished (which shouldn't take more than a few months). However, my other option is to continue to apply to help desk jobs or other entry-level IT jobs just to dip my feet in the water already just so I can end up getting a coding job or some other high level IT job in the future. The Bootcamp only costs $4500 and there are payment plans included so nothing has to be paid upfront. I would just like to know all of your thoughts and opinions, or if there is another suggestion you might have? Thank you all! [link] [comments]  |
| Cisco Collaboration - where to? Posted: 27 Jan 2020 09:24 AM PST Hi everyone! I'm in a bit of a trouble currently, trying to figure out what to do with my career. I work in IT for 4 years (have a master's degree in CS), and I've started working in the Cisco Collaboration field due to a friend offering me a job. I've moved job many times, right now I work at a partner, in a kind of pre-sales role. However, I notice that Cisco Collaboration is kind of fading away with the big companies moving to Microsoft Teams. Also, I don't enjoy the job too much, I've been here for 3 years now. So I'm trying to figure out what to do. The big thing is, I don't want to start over again (and yes, that includes both not wanting to take a salary-decrease and do very low level jobs). Could you please give me some advice? Here are the things I've been thinking of:
Currently I'm leaning towards AWS, however as I'm not using it in my daily work, I'm kind of nervous about whether I'd have the experience to move. Of course I've picked up plenty of soft skills along my current job, as I'm in a senior - team lead role, which could come in handy - such as customer communication. What do you guys think? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Jan 2020 09:22 AM PST Quite confused about the kind of job I should apply for. Except for backend coding, what would you hire me for? [link] [comments]  |
| Non-compete agreement worth salary increase? Posted: 27 Jan 2020 09:16 AM PST I'm currently a Service Desk Analyst making $37,440 a year and I have a job offer making $52,000 but they want me to sign a Non-compete agreement. Is this standard? Or should I just keep applying to other jobs that won't require me to sign a Non-Compete Agreement? [link] [comments]  |
| When you would and wouldn't take a paycut Posted: 27 Jan 2020 08:49 AM PST Currently I am making a very decent wage of over 50k a year as a business analyst. Is it wrong to want to go back to Technical Support where I would make 40k a year. I feel the hours of a business analyst are very long and the money is nice, but in technical support I think I felt happier, and had normal working hours. Is a 10k paycut worth happiness? Or should I just stick this job out hoping that happiness comes from different work fufillment? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Jan 2020 08:24 AM PST Hey all! I currently work as a technical support spec making $22/hr. We recently got an email about employee evals and I know these affect compensation greatly. I don't have high expectations for a huge raise but, am not sure how much I should even be expecting. Not to toot my own horn but, I know I'm doing great at my company. What kind of raise have you guys gotten in your first year at a company? Background: recent college grad with a Bachelor's in IT, with my 1 year anniversary coming in May if that helps. [link] [comments]  |
| How to go about getting into IT? Posted: 27 Jan 2020 08:12 AM PST I'm at a loss as to what to do. I graduated from DeVry with a telecommunications management degree back in 2006 but never used it or worked in the IT field. After working in warehouse management for the past 12 years I am burned out on it and want to get an IT job but have no idea how to go about doing it. Should I go to community college or just get certifications? Is my degree worth anything at all at this point being that most of the coursework I studied is outdated? Or would it still be enough to land a help desk job? Thank you for any advice. [link] [comments]  |
| I want to pursue penetration testing, but where should I go? Posted: 27 Jan 2020 08:07 AM PST I want to be a hacker for the new. I'm working towards my sexurity+, but I really don't know where to go from there. Where to go from there? [link] [comments]  |
| Asking for Benefits cost upfront Posted: 27 Jan 2020 07:21 AM PST I have an offer on the table that I accepted but the start date is out about two weeks. I have asked the recruiter and then another HR person for the health benefits cost several times to which I get the standard response of "you will receive those on your first day." I have to take this into consideration as I have small children and the monthly contributions can be huge. I shouldn't have accepted the offer without this in writing but they don't seem to want to disclose them. I don't think they are shady as this is a huge defense contractor with 50 thousand plus employees. Any advice or suggestions on if anyone has been in this situation before? I would hope companies are more upfront with this type of information as it is a major part of the compensation and benefits for most people. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Jan 2020 06:37 AM PST Hello I need some advice. I'm burnt out. I'm trying to get away from the Help Desk. I currently hold the CompTIA CSIS stack. Have been working for 3 years in a help desk role and I'm now an L2 with plenty experience. The company Im currently working for has great pay (55k+) but lack benefits like sick days and stuff since it's so small (about 10 of us). I live in Chicago. I hold an associates degree and have 1 year left for my BS in Network Operations and Security. What positions should I start looking at? Project work? Entry level security or network? What are those positions even called? Thanks and sorry for the bad flow/Grammer typing this in by the water cooler at work ... [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Jan 2020 05:38 AM PST Hi all, I have two job offers on the table. Quick question : option A or option B? A: 15% increase, devops + cloud admin tasks, interesting industry, nice benefits (2HO days a week, company pension - 3% of salary atm, paid overtime) B: 25% increase, less technical stuff and more coordinating vendors with internal dev team to provision infrastructure correctly, not an interesting industry. My background is devOps/linuxadmin and dipped into on prem cloud management at my current job. Tending towards option A, but I hate it to miss out on a month's worth of salary every year... [link] [comments]  |
| Seeking advice. Going from Bartending to IT/CS in 5 years or less, at age 32. Posted: 26 Jan 2020 12:17 PM PST Hello, world I'm a 32 year old Bartender in Atlanta. I am essentially looking to start my life from scratch and find my role in the IT or CS field. I have had a passion for computers from a young age and have kept up my interest. I would like to lay out my best plan to break into the industry, and do it the right way, not just the easy way. Since I graduated high school I have been working in restaurants and bars in some form or another. I started college in '05 working towards a CS degree, and planned to find a program in Computer Hardware Engineering. I always had a fascination with how mass storage worked and how it could be improved. Shortly after my family began going through hard times, father got sick and couldn't work for years, I had to take care of their mortgage and my own rent. Basically life happened and I didn't cope well and I dropped out of school and started working more. I decided making fast money and enjoying life was more important right now. I always did say to myself I could go back to school 10 years later if that's what I really wanted. Well I climbed the Service Industry ladder one rung at a time, and here I find myself this year at the highest level of bartending, running an outstanding and well-recognized cocktail program. After fully realizing this "dream" I have discovered that I am just incredibly unhappy (so is my bank account). I have no true passion for this stuff. I'm a wealth of unimportant knowledge. I want to do something that adds to this world. So here I am very late to the game, or maybe right on time since there's never been a better time to learn online. I started playing with the m1m0 app to get familiarized with programming and I really love it. I've now transitioned to spending all of my free time studying for A+. If anything just so I can get used to taking certifications exams. I have been pleased to see that almost everything on the exam is stuff I know by heart from building PCs and networking at home. I also would very much like to complete my college degree. I have a very generous uncle who caught wind of this and he wants to support me financially through this process! Also I can always drive Uber to make rent and feed myself, I've done it before. In a way I have plenty of time to take it slowly, go to college, figure out what role is right for me. But I'm also getting old. I like programming but I'm not much of a creative. I'm more of a problem solver. That makes me think I'd like the IT world. And a high priority would be a field where I could work remotely (I know everyone says that). What would you guys do if you were me? Take the college route, grind through the core classes for years and figure things out along the way? Or focus on certs and getting my first IT job? Both sound great to me but I feel blind and would love any piece of advice you all have. I'm hoping overwhelmed is a good feeling to have right now and that lateral moves in the industry are realistic. TL;DR: A 32 year old guy with no computer experience, no office experience, and no formal education has family financial support to buckle down and do whatever it takes to break into the computer world, even if that means a 4 year degree, which I do want. I have abundant energy and passion but I want to focus and do it right. Would be ready to leave my job in 1 month and start studying now. Thank you so much everyone. [link] [comments]  |
| Does anyone work at one of the fabled places that "gets it?" Posted: 26 Jan 2020 11:36 PM PST Has anyone worked someplace where the company "gets it" and let's IT do their job relatively uninhibited? I'm just wondering if someone has found a job where IT has relatively strong, centralized authority to do updates and upgrades when needed; not everything is an uphill battle with users and management to get the actual work done; systems are kept up to date and patched. Most importantly; What is the best work culture you have ever worked in and what do you think made that workplace so good? How did you know you had found "the one?" What were signals that let you know you had (or had not) found a good match for you? Background: I currently work as a field tech in Higher Ed doing workstation upgrades, software and hardware installs, break/fix, etc. This is only my 2nd IT job but I previously worked for 6 years managing a help desk. I love my current job for the workplace culture and job duties. My last job was borderline abusive in terms of workload, staffing, and company culture. [link] [comments]  |
| Starting My First Entry Level IT Job Posted: 26 Jan 2020 02:50 PM PST Soon I will be starting my first IT job as a desktop service technician for a large MSP on the east coast. I don't expect to move up within the organization from this position however I am happy just to get the work experience. On top of that I will be traveling around to a lot of large companies for repairs and the hiring manager has told me a lot of previous techs have gotten hired by companies they had serviced. What are some things I should keep in mind to take advantage of this position and what are somethings I should watch out for? [link] [comments]  |
| Advice about switching from Software Engineering to Infrastructure role Posted: 26 Jan 2020 09:59 PM PST I'm currently a Software Engineer and to make a long story short I hate my job. I do full-stack web development, I have a year and a half experience, and I know it's not for me. I use to be a Web Admin back in 2017 and did support roles for years before that and haven't really enjoyed work since then. I recently switched majors from Computer Science to Information Assurance, and am working on my CCNA Security and Security+. I was wondering if you had any advice on what types of roles someone switching from development would match well within Infrastructure outside of something like DevOps (which would be cool but I don't think I'm experienced enough for)? Any advice would be greatly appreciated! [link] [comments]  |
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