IT Career A thank you and some words of encouragement for those less fortunate. |
- A thank you and some words of encouragement for those less fortunate.
- 22F About to start my first full-time job! Am I being compensated well?
- What would be the job title I put on my resume?
- Looking to get out of IT Support. Learn HTML/CSS/JavaScript or go for cloud certifications. Need career advice!
- Been working in IT for two years now, just started a tier 1 admin job. Wanna finish the degree I started years ago now, considering online, like WGU.
- CS or CIS degree for DevOps/SRE roles?
- Moving to 1st Line from 2nd Line.
- Late Life Career Change
- Can I move and be employable in 6 months?
- Using medical cannabis while applying to IT jobs?
- MIS vs CIS
- 27 work in a factory want to get into IT
- Need Advise on Skills to Learn
- Thoughts about labbing in the cloud for my Server 2016 70-740?
- Changing from a niche industry. Getting interviews but not sealing the deal
- Arguing with an American company over on-call work
- Is having the manager fly to your location for 1 on 1 after reviews a good thing or bad thing?
- Recent Software Dev Grad, lost on what exactly I want to do all help is appreciated!
- Is Computer Information Systems the same as IT?
- IT Technician asking for a raise
- Where are the 150k+ BA/PO jobs ?
- IT Career in Canada specifically Toronto.
- What's your primary reason for learning a new technology?
| A thank you and some words of encouragement for those less fortunate. Posted: 05 Feb 2020 03:57 PM PST I have been subbed to this sub for a while now. I have gotten resume help, advice with strategic career planning and general support just to name a few things. I'd like to announce to you all that because of your help, I have been offered and have accepted an IT Operations and Technology internship for the Summer with a very well known storage device manufacturer making a wage that far eclipses anything I've ever made in my life in a location that is a perfect match for me. This is the beginning of the end of a life of poverty for me. I am the product of a single mother who raised 2 kids on a wage barely above the minimum. She didn't get any child support, got involved with drugs, got addicted, started selling, and went to prison sending my sister and I into the foster care system. She doesn't have a 4 year degree - in fact, no one in my family does. Because of all of this, it has taken me until I have reached 32 years of age to get to a point that I've learned what NOT to do, what TO do, and learn how to keep doing it. I was a 2.25 GPA student in HS. This is my second time in college - dropped out the first time. I tanked my GPA because I didn't withdraw from classes. I ruined my credit. I defaulted on my student loans, causing the IRS to garnish my federal tax returns until I got them out of default. If you can relate at all to this story, please believe when I tell you that it is never too late to change your life. You don't have to be haunted everyday by past mistakes. But it takes hard work, discipline, and a plan to right the ship. If you've ever been told that you're 'smart' or 'gifted' by multiple people, but never had the confidence to take a chance and see if they're right, you owe it to yourself and to the world to find out. Never stop learning. Never stop trying. Always have the utmost belief in yourself. Even when it's hard. Even if you have to fake it. Even if you feel like no one else believes in you, because I've had a lot of people in my life not believe in me and for a long time I believed them. It wasn't until I found this sub and the love of my life that I started thinking 'Hey, maybe I can do whatever it is I want to. Maybe I am smart enough. Maybe I do deserve to have a good life.' So, thank you all. Really. TL;DR - It's never too late to change your life. I know you can do the thing. [link] [comments]  |
| 22F About to start my first full-time job! Am I being compensated well? Posted: 06 Feb 2020 06:39 AM PST Background: I graduated in December 2019 a couple months ago with a B.S in Business Admin with a concentration in IT. My parents are immigrants who established themselves in the US with nothing but labor and service jobs, so they never worked for companies or corporations. They both dropped out of high school at 16. Being the first-generation, I have tons of questions that they unfortunately can't answer simply because they don't know. So if anyone here could help me out with determining if I have a good benefits/salary package for my first full-time job post-graduation, it would be a great help!
I tried to negotiate for a few extra thousand dollars due to a rather long commute, but they said that their offer is their offer. Is this an okay first job? What should I look for in my next role? [link] [comments]  |
| What would be the job title I put on my resume? Posted: 06 Feb 2020 09:13 AM PST Hey everyone! I'm currently putting together my resume, which only has my one and only IT position on it. The position was within a family business and I learned everything on my own over the years. I am the only person in this position and handled everything technology related for all 7 of our locations. Such responsibilities include:
All very basic stuff, for the moment I listed the position as "General Information Technology" Thanks for your help! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 06 Feb 2020 09:45 AM PST Currently in IT. Learn HTML/CSS/JavaScript or go for a cloud certification and get into DevOps? Need career advice! Resume: https://imgur.com/gallery/u51h9wa So I am currently an IT guy with a Bachelors in Computer Information Systems. I have spent the last few years working IT Support and come to realize I am not passionate about "IT" anymore. The thought of networking, servers, IT troubleshooting doesn't really motivate me anymore. My next step in my career if I wanted to "move up" in the IT world would be a role like a Systems Admin. Googling the daily roles of a Sys Admin... doesn't interest me at all to continue that path. That's why I have wanted to pick up coding and use my support background to pair with to make a career advancement/change. At my current company I have recently started helping out on the Software/Application Support team. This team has a lot of Tier 1 type questions but most of the knitty gritty stuff gets escalated to the Engineers and Developers. Seeing what they do, I find that doing coding work like that is WAY more interesting then my job managing the network and server administration stuff. I like the company that I am at and believe if I started to learn more about Web Development and picking up some coding skills - I could get some opportunity to help out. I came across an old job listing for an "Implementation Engineer" at my company and some of the requirements are knowledge with HTML/CSS/JavaScript and JSON/XML API's. Also knowledge with PHP and SQL was a plus. I also was thinking of grabbing an AWS or Cloud certification and going down more of a DevOps Route... or into cloud. I have read that this is a pretty common transition for people in IT. This may be a little more of a learning period but DevOps jobs are growing. I am willing to study for these AWS or Azure certs like crazy in my free time. I am torn between which route I should take. If I go the HTML/CSS/JavaScript route, I am just a little weary for my long term career. I have a great opportunity in THIS current company, but I am not sure down the road if I were ever to leave this company - I don't know if I would want to just be a Web Developer full time. I also am confused because if I spend all my free time studying DevOps / Cloud stuff - then I am missing an opportunity at my current company to potential move up in to a higher role and i'll Be stuck doing low end Tier 1 / Help Desk style stuff. I am really interested in cloud technology and know in the future there will be a ton of jobs that are both available and lucrative - but just a little hesitant because of the opportunity in my current role. Can anyone help me out? This is my first job out of college so I am really looking to start making advancements in my career and picking up new skills. I just wanted to get someone else's opinion or someone that has been in a similar situation. I have a pretty decent resume with 3 good internships on it plus a Bachelors (plus my current role at a established SaaS company) - so I know adding some coding skills will make me more marketable then just a typical "IT fix-it guy". All responses are really really appreciated. I am very grateful for everyone's honest opinions. Thanks! TLDR: Should I learn web development skills to potential move up in my current support role, or learn DevOps to get a new job in the future — all to move out of IT [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 06 Feb 2020 08:17 AM PST Title. Your thoughts on online degrees? I see WGU mentioned on here a lot. Since I have work experience already, I don't really care where I get my degree from, as long as it's accredited. [link] [comments]  |
| CS or CIS degree for DevOps/SRE roles? Posted: 06 Feb 2020 08:10 AM PST I have 8 years of work experience in IT. I started in desktop support, then got internally promoted to junior sysadmin, and am now at a different employer working as a Windows sysadmin. I have an Associate degree in telecommunications. I've been learning more about DevOps and SRE roles and I think I'd eventually like to switch to that side of IT. I'm currently working on a Linux home lab based off of that "learn Linux admin" guide that gets reposted everywhere, teaching myself Python when I have free time at work, and learning more about infrastructure as code tools. But I'm not sure if I should keep up with this or focus on getting a bachelor's degree. What would be the best type of degree to move into this field? Would I need to study CS to fill in the gaps regarding software development? [link] [comments]  |
| Moving to 1st Line from 2nd Line. Posted: 06 Feb 2020 02:39 AM PST I've been working as a 2nd Line at a major company in the London, UK for 8 months now. My current daily rate is £80 as a contractor which I found to be very low. I have just got another offer as a contractor, outside of London as a 1st Line Helpdesk at a not so well know company with an increase of £40 over my current position. Should I take it? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 06 Feb 2020 05:54 AM PST I am wanting to make a career change into the IT field. My dellima is how to go about getting the education I need to pass the certification tests. I am looking at My Computer Career. While expensive I like the structure and speed of the learning. I am also considering courses such as CBT Nuggets. Any advice and/or experiences that anybody would like to share would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. [link] [comments]  |
| Can I move and be employable in 6 months? Posted: 06 Feb 2020 05:17 AM PST Hello all, I am currently pursuing a help desk job, with no previous experience in IT. I am trying to get the CompTIA A+ and Net+ certs, I have no previous experience in IT but I have tons of experience with customer service related jobs over the past 6 years. I also only have 3/4 of a Bachelor's degree. Should it be reasonable for me to expect that if I landed a help desk job and stayed there for 6 months, I could reasonably land a help desk job in another city as well? I plan on having to move later this year. [link] [comments]  |
| Using medical cannabis while applying to IT jobs? Posted: 05 Feb 2020 11:59 AM PST Hello, I am graduating from my college and plan on getting my first non-internship based IT job. I have bad anxiety and using cannabis helps calm me down. Often my anxiety can get physically painful, mostly in the stomachache, to the point where I can't function normally. I have discovered that a little bit of cannabis helps remove this feeling. I live in a state in where cannabis has recently become legal for medical use only. For my several IT internships over my college career, I have never been drug tested. How common is cannabis drug testing for IT jobs in a state where it VERY recently became legal? Cannabis is the only thing I do that could cause me to fail. If I give up cannabis long enough, I know that would solve the drug test issue, however it would cause issues for my anxiety, and I worry that my anxiety would make it difficult for me to present myself in the way I want to. How common is drug testing in IT? I have worked 5 different jobs before, and haven't been drug tested at any. I have heard conflicting information from different people. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 05 Feb 2020 10:28 PM PST How do they compare? Both academically and in the job market. [link] [comments]  |
| 27 work in a factory want to get into IT Posted: 05 Feb 2020 10:25 PM PST Hi guys, Just a 27 year old trying to find his way in life. I am not computer savvy I would say but I know a thing or two. Question is IT hard to learn? I studied aircraft maintenance in college, then I did a AutoCad Cert but neither of those interest me( hate drawing and I hate doing blue collar work now. Is IT feasible to get Into. What should be my starting point? Any good books to read on starter certs or anything. [link] [comments]  |
| Need Advise on Skills to Learn Posted: 05 Feb 2020 08:27 PM PST Hey everyone, I'm currently a student in a Bachelors of IT security program. I'm hoping to get a security-related co-op/internship position this summer, and another one next summer, then by that point I'll have 2 semesters left of school and I'll be graduating. I was wondering if any of you who currently work in the IT security field can direct me to what kind of skills are currently important and that I should be focusing on. I feel like my degree program is a bit underwhelming, and I want to keep learning stuff on the side. Late last year I got the A+, net+, and sec+ certificates, and currently I'm studying python (I did python for 3 years in high school computer science classes so I guess I'm 're-learning' python). I'm always reading various technical textbooks from random subject areas like networking, Linux, etc. Currently, my plan is to get the RHCSA this summer, and then the new CCNA after the summer, so late 2020. I also want to get the OSCP somewhere down the line, most likely in 2021, as its pretty much the baseline for pen-testing (which is what I want to hopefully get into). Is this current plan fine? Or do you guys think there may be more important things to go after? Any important skills/languages I should learn? Any advise is appreciated! [link] [comments]  |
| Thoughts about labbing in the cloud for my Server 2016 70-740? Posted: 06 Feb 2020 12:13 AM PST I'm studying for my MCSA and my hardware is to crappy to virtualize Server 2016 locally. Would it be a good idea to setup a lab in the cloud? Would it be expensive? Would learning the cloud on top of servers be too much at once? I really just want to make sure I drill down on the powershell and remotely configuring and maintaining a server [link] [comments]  |
| Changing from a niche industry. Getting interviews but not sealing the deal Posted: 05 Feb 2020 08:15 PM PST I worked in the computer animation/vfx industry but am trying to get out due to its instability and nomatic lifestyle. Tax subsidies have been pulling the work all over the place. I have a wife and kids now so they come first. I went back to school for Network Engineering and now have a year of experience working in the education system as a site guy for school districts. Mainly chromebook repairs, printer troubleshooting/installation, configuring accounts in AD, and random windows pc issues. Id like to get into more challenging work. ie....networking, teir 2 and such, maybe for a hospital, bank, or other government entity. I live in Central Valley CA so I know my options are limited but moving is not an option for me. I dont seem to have a problem getting interviews but cant seem to seal the deal. Im not the best at interviews but Im definitely not the worst either. I get nervous like anybody else and think of ways I couldve answered questions better afterward but I would guess thats pretty normal. I guess, ultimately, I cant figure out if Im really bombing the interviews that bad or if Im getting interviews for jobs that Im not really ready for mainly because people see big names they recognize on my resume but dont really know what to make of it. In the meantime, I was just going to homelab/study, cert up with a ccna and/or mcsa, and keep on truckin. [link] [comments]  |
| Arguing with an American company over on-call work Posted: 05 Feb 2020 04:19 PM PST I realize that I am asking this question on a site where the vast majority of users are American and most probably only have American work culture as a point of reference. I suspect this will influence the responses I get, but nonetheless I wanted to get some input on this. I work as an engineer for an American company in Germany. I was born and raised in the states and emigrated to Germany as an adult for a host of reasons. I live here permanently and have no intention of going back in the foreseeable future. There are multiple people on my team split between the US and Germany. We are all past probationary periods and I've been at the company for several years, though initially I started in another role. I was hired here after emigrating to the country and in the eyes of the law, I am a German worker, not an American employee on temporary assignment overseas. On-call support is an issue that keeps coming up time and time again. For the people in the US, on-call support is simply expected of them. They are not compensated extra for this duty. Being salaried, they're told it is "included" in their pay. In Germany, unpaid on-call work like this is illegal. I know because I visited (and paid) an employment lawyer in Germany to ask them these very questions the last time this issue came up at my company. I wanted to feel more confident discussing this with my company beyond just what I could find on google searches, so I saw a professional employment lawyer. There is nothing in my contract that states I must do on-call work, or how this on-call work will be compensated. The company cannot force me to accept on-call work. They cannot retroactively amend my contract or anything like that. They can, of course, try and make my life more difficult as punishment for not going along with it. To me, this should be the end of the discussion. Unpaid on-call is illegal. You must compensate me to do on-call. I will not agree to do on-call unless I agree on the compensation I will get in return. End of story. Those are the facts of the situation, anything beyond that is emotional manipulation. Once our engineering presence in Germany got large enough, the American execs tried to push on-call in the same style as in the US and quickly backpedaled when they discovered that Germany is not the US and the laws are different here. They have since introduced 1.5x pay for on-call and pushed it on any engineers that would accept it. New hires after this point had it written into their contracts in advance. (and as an aside, the way the company works and the amount of times they've screwed up payroll and HR stuff, I have 0 faith in their system to accurately record when we are engaged on on-call work and compensate us accordingly.) The American engineers on my team are upset. They have to do all the on-call work and the Germany team does none of it. We pick up the phone during our normal working hours while they are sleeping and that's it. I get it. They see a good chunk of the team "not pulling their weight" and they're stuck with all the on-call. I understand. I grew up and worked in that culture too. I also left that culture for a lot of reasons. Work/life balance was one of them. This subreddit is full of people suffering from toxic on-call hours. I honestly feel bad, and I want to help my team and I don't want other people to suffer more because of me, but at the same time I also do not want to let myself be taken advantage of. While we are all one team, we are not all equal. We live in different countries, with different legal systems, different work cultures, and we are compensated differently. The US team is paid a lot more than the Germany team. One of the reasons the business was attracted to the idea of putting engineers here is because they could pay them less than the US based engineers. The trade off for the Germany team is that we have a lot more worker protections. We cannot be immediately dismissed except under extreme circumstances like violence or theft, we have a legal minimum of 21 days PTO a year, "sick days" don't exist, you just stay home when you don't feel well, and we are legally required to have an 11 hour rest period between when we stop work and start working again. This means that if I'm on-call and get called at 3am and finish working at 4am, I am legally not able to come to the office until 3pm. Nevertheless, the US team keeps bringing up how this is unfair and we should be required to shoulder an equal amount of the burden. Let me give an extreme example just to highlight the issue I see here: Imagine a team with half the workers one country working 9-5 jobs and then going home. Now imagine that the other half of the team works in another country but in sweatshop like conditions, working 11-12 hour+ days. Should the 8hr/day works in the first country be required to work 11-12 hours like the workers in the second country so it's "fair"? I don't think so. Especially not if you then add the fact that the people in the 2nd country earn a lot more than the people in the first. I'm sorry that the engineers in the US are unhappy about the balance of on-call work, but I'm under no obligation to accept a bad deal. At the end of the day it's just business. I am exchanging my time for money. I am free to accept or reject offers of exchange. If the company offers me compensation that I deem worth what I would be giving up by being tied to my laptop, then I might consider it, but until then the answer is no. Does this sound unreasonable? *EDIT*: I've spoken with two other engineers on different teams at my location and they confirmed my suspicion, my company does NOT actually compensate anyone for on-call hours worked, despite it being illegal to not compensate them. The other year the (American) CTO sent out an email to the Germany teams saying they would pay 1.5x the rate for hours worked, but apparently they never bothered to build an infrastructure to track this and compensate the employees. It does not surprise me that this is the case and that many employees here still do the on-call work despite not getting paid because it's infrequent enough they don't want to make a fuss over it, and I bet a majority of them are here on visas tied to their continued employment. [link] [comments]  |
| Is having the manager fly to your location for 1 on 1 after reviews a good thing or bad thing? Posted: 05 Feb 2020 06:18 PM PST As the title says, I have been at my current company for about a year, and this has been my first annual review. Manager said that she wants to come visit me on site for the 1 on 1. She works at a different office in another state. I might be over reacting but, we've had a handful of layoffs about 7 months ago due to an acquisition. Here I am, thinking what other reasons would there be for the company to pay someone to fly ALLLL the way over just for a annual review. I'm thinking they want to come here to tell me bad news, and cover while they find replacement. Am I over-reacting? [link] [comments]  |
| Recent Software Dev Grad, lost on what exactly I want to do all help is appreciated! Posted: 05 Feb 2020 04:30 PM PST While I am a software developer graduate, I am not apposed to working in other IT fields, I just have a passion for technology in general and all forms! I made this post over on r/cscareerquestions and someone recommended me to come here! I will just copy my post from the other sub here! I've been applying for jobs from between Youngstown OH and Pittsburgh PA (~ 300mi area) Before I dive to deep, I'm using a throwaway so my friends don't know it's me, I'm extremely embarrassed of the situation I am in and it's put me in such a negative hole in my life my depression and anxiety are off the fucking chart. I selected the 'new grad' flair as it was the only one that seems to fit me. I'm not technically a new grad, but I graduated in December of 2018 with an associates degree in Software Engineering. A little over 1 year ago. So I'm technically not a new grad, but I have yet to work 1 single day in my field. Now now, I know everyone is thinking "it's 100% my fault and I'm doing something wrong" which I can totally get behind and agree with, but let me put down everything I've done up until this point.
I've had 0 interviews over the last 8 months, all I'm getting is ghosted. I'm contemplating a complete career change at this point. I personally feel I wasted 2 years of my life in school and the last year job searching. I'm $24,000 in debt (thanks school!!) and I have to start paying my loans next month. I can hardly afford life now and I have no idea what to do. What are some other fields I can apply for that can use my Software degree? I just don't think programming is in my cards. Some jobs I've applied for to no avail:
Sorry if this seems all over the place, my heads been really messy the last few weeks (messy than normal). EDIT: Should also mention I do have a second degree, that is an associates in general studies, with a heavy focus on law enforcement. [link] [comments]  |
| Is Computer Information Systems the same as IT? Posted: 05 Feb 2020 12:35 PM PST Hello I am planning to pursue a bachelors degree in college and was wondering if I can ask some questions. I was looking for a Information Technology degree but the only degrees available in my area are Computer Information Systems and Computer Science. Is Computer Information Systems interchangeable with IT or is it a different degree that would still give me opportunities in Information Technology? Is this degree more like computer science due to all the programming classes? Sorry i'm new to all this and I am trying to make sure I am getting the correct degree for the field I want to pursue. With the classes listed below will I be able to pursue IT jobs like help desk or other IT jobs? I'm not too interested in getting a programming based job but I am willing to learn it. Here is a list of classes that I would be learning in this field:
General Requirements (Upper Division) – 15 semester hours
Computer Information Systems Major Requirements – 36 semester hours
Anyways thanks so much and sorry if I got some things wrong. I did a bit of research but still kind of got confused so I will be grateful for any explanations and advice for a potentially new student in computer information systems. Also what jobs can be pursued with this type of degree in it that are not programming related like help desk? I'm still willing to learn programming but I am curious about that. Thank you very much! [link] [comments]  |
| IT Technician asking for a raise Posted: 05 Feb 2020 01:58 PM PST A little background: I lucked into a IT Technician position almost 2 years ago and within the last year the person that was running the IT "department" retired leaving me alone in the only IT position at the facility. I have taken on all the planning and higher level jobs my boss who left was in charge of. I was hesitant to ask for a raise seeing as I didn't have my degree or any experience before this job, but since I'm coming up on my 2 year mark I figured I have a lot more leverage to ask for a raise. Having that 2 years on my resume would mean I'd get more looks on the job market. I just want some opinions on how to go about it. Any advise is welcomed. [link] [comments]  |
| Where are the 150k+ BA/PO jobs ? Posted: 05 Feb 2020 04:04 PM PST I've been working in various non technical roles in financial services IT for the past decade. I've been at a few big banks and a couple of smaller shops. Currently pulling around 120k as a Product owner at a big bank. It feels like iv hit the ceiling without going into management. Does anyone have eyes on non technical 150k+ jobs? From what I can tell financial services pays pretty well comparatively industry wise. I'm not sure an industry change is going to move the needle. Going into management is an option, but my current company doesn't really promote from within in IT aside from promoting the best developer to be the dev manager. Several PMO and analyst team managers recently have all come from external or as internal lateral moves for people who were already managing. Going external for a first time manager spot seems like a long shot since all those types of reqs are looking for experienced managers. [link] [comments]  |
| IT Career in Canada specifically Toronto. Posted: 05 Feb 2020 12:18 PM PST Hey folks in Toronto, ON. What is the state of IT career over there right now? I am moving from Florida to Toronto in June for good. I am a desktop/network analyst for 2yrs now and have college diploma, no certs at all but currently working on my CCNA. To give you an idea, what I do right now is assist our network engineers with their day to day issues as well as our desktop analyst (on-site support for 1000 employees). Just trying to see what your experiences... Edit: Got down voted for asking question? [link] [comments]  |
| What's your primary reason for learning a new technology? Posted: 05 Feb 2020 07:27 PM PST New technologies are being introduced at a very fast rate. As IT professionals, we need to constantly upgrade our skills so we can work with these new technologies. What's your primary reason for learning a new technology? Is it to deploy it in a production environment? Is it to support it after the consultant has deployed it in a production environment? Is it to solve a recurring issue/problem? Is it to improve the system? Is it to prepare for the next job? ADDED: Is it because you enjoy learning? [link] [comments]  |
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