IT Career [Weekly] What would you like to know Wednesday? General Question Thread |
- [Weekly] What would you like to know Wednesday? General Question Thread
- CompTIA Trifecta + No IT Experience. Will Salesforce Help Me?
- If anyone is looking to build Linux knowledge, this could be a good place to start!
- Smaller/midsized cities with good opportunities in IT
- NOC job offer questions.
- Which Cert: NSX-T, Palo Alto PCNSE, or Azure Security Engineer Associate?
- Kickstarting my career - I would appreciate your advice.
- COVID or Me?
- Self studying just not working and I am feeling very discouraged.
- Which certs to do now?
- I’m looking into beginning my IT education from nothing. What would be the fastest, most efficient way to start my IT career in your opinion?
- How will remote work impact salaries
- Freelance advice..
- Graduated in December and still have not found a job
- LinkedIn question: Which job title do I use??
- Network Admin in a crisis and cross-roads
- I’m feel extremely burnt out on help desk. Is there a light at the end of the tunnel?
- Next Steps Towards Security Career
- I am transitioning from the US Navy. Can IT/Cybersecurity experience in the military really lead to six-figure salaries?
- Bachelors Degree + Certificates
- Feel underqualified for my title, stuck in a department I can't stand, might have severe impostor syndrome
- Network Engineer --> Azure Cloud Architect?
- Systems/Server Administration, Network Engineering, Robotic Process Automation Development, or Salesforce Development Internship? Which one is more transferrable in general to any industry/company?
- Guess I'm sort of lost.
| [Weekly] What would you like to know Wednesday? General Question Thread Posted: 24 Jun 2020 01:17 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]  |
| CompTIA Trifecta + No IT Experience. Will Salesforce Help Me? Posted: 24 Jun 2020 08:07 AM PDT Basically I have my compTIA trifecta but lack IT experience. As a veteran I have access to free training in Salesforce administration, though I would need to study for about a month and and get the certification. Do the two certifications with CompTIA and Salesforce administration complement one another? Thanks. Ps. I really just don't want to dedicate another month to studying something only to find out it's irrelevant/unnecessary. [link] [comments]  |
| If anyone is looking to build Linux knowledge, this could be a good place to start! Posted: 23 Jun 2020 11:11 AM PDT ITProTV's Linux Essentials course is free right now, through a 3 week email series: https://go.itpro.tv/linux-essentials [link] [comments]  |
| Smaller/midsized cities with good opportunities in IT Posted: 24 Jun 2020 07:49 AM PDT Hey everyone, I'm looking to relocate from Upstate NY to somewhere in the MidAtlantic/Southeastern area of the US in a couple of years. What would be some smaller midsized cities that have some good opportunities in like Desktop Support and the likes without facing the insanely stiff competition/high COL/traffic of the Washington/Baltimore/Philly corridor? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 24 Jun 2020 06:00 AM PDT Hello and thanks for reading, I just finished up my associates in networking and have A+ and Network+ certifications, also a 3 month internship. I was offered a NOC technician job at a local ISP, starting at 21/hr in a medium ish city ( top 100 in US). They are offering good medical and 401k plan and 2 weeks vacation after 90 days, Monday thru Friday 8:30-5. I believe this to be a strong offer but I have some friends saying I should ask for more money, or ask them to pay for some training or more certs. I do have 5 years of retail management experience but that isn't that relevant IMO. What are your thoughts on this next offer? [link] [comments]  |
| Which Cert: NSX-T, Palo Alto PCNSE, or Azure Security Engineer Associate? Posted: 24 Jun 2020 09:15 AM PDT Hey fellow IT Professionals! I'm currently at a company that is pushing me towards a network security certification. They have given me the three options, and I'd love to hear your opinions on them:
Which one do you think is the most valuable in the security/networking career, if you were to not only get the cert but also get experience working with the technologies? Out of these, do any one of them stand out to be more useful in this industry than the rest? Thank you! [link] [comments]  |
| Kickstarting my career - I would appreciate your advice. Posted: 24 Jun 2020 03:11 AM PDT Hello all, Unfortunately, I have recently been made redundant due to COVID-19. I am using this as an opportunity to build up on my knowledge and skills and advance my career. I am looking to retrieve SCP - Network Certification as a start, could you advise on any great sources of information where I will be able to study for this? I currently am looking through the Solarwinds website (Education & Training), but wondered if there were additional sources of information which I could tap into. I have a base knowledge of networking (University degree) and a strong competancy in IT Support. I am looking to advance my career and specialise in Solarwinds/networking products. In addition to this, I would love to hear about any courses (preferably free) or learning opportunities you could share! I appreciate any and all assistance that can be provided. Thank you in advance. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 24 Jun 2020 06:26 AM PDT I just recently passed my AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, and am working towards my SAA and SysOps certs. I have worked in IT Support and as a Systems Administrator, with an associates Degree in IS and am almost finished with my undergrad in Compute and Security. I began applying to Cloud Engineer type positions about a month ago, and to no avail.... crickets. I am looking to make the transition into the cloud space, whether it be a junior position or a TAM. Any insight on my current situation is greatly appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| Self studying just not working and I am feeling very discouraged. Posted: 24 Jun 2020 09:09 AM PDT Hello Everyone, I would like to preface this with I don't know how to set up a home lab. I don't know much about networks or how to even tinker with it. When people say do this course for beginners it's still not beginner friendly enough for me. I am watching professor messor but it seems to me to have a lot of gaps, such as how a check sum works, what a payload is, why there are headers, etc. With that being said I am very much a hands on learner and self studying isn't allowing me to retain the information that I am studying. So should I do Flat Irons Cybersecurity's boot camp? Is it worth it? Are you employable after a boot camp? I would like to do labs but they're extremely expensive. I don't know where to go from here and I am feeling extremely discouraged and ready to give up. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 24 Jun 2020 09:01 AM PDT Due to covid I lost my job and have been looking for last 2 months but there isn't much hope. I am a network security engineer but now it looks like with every security job companies have combined cloud. So I was thinking to get Linux academy subscription and work on "Microsoft certified azure solution architect" . I am at a stage where I have many certifications and quite frankly I am tired of doing these. Another alternate is to do CCSP, I already have a CISSP. I can do labs through Linux academy and videos from the site and then put them as skills in my CV. I feel CCSP would be easier for me. In the mean time keep looking for jobs, which of the two paths would you recommend? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 24 Jun 2020 08:59 AM PDT I was looking at IT certifications to start off. Would those be a good idea to begin? [link] [comments]  |
| How will remote work impact salaries Posted: 24 Jun 2020 08:55 AM PDT Now that the cat is out of the box on not needing to physically be in an office to perform a role, I'm wondering how that will impact salaries. It seems that no longer do you need to live in crazy expensive cities like NYC, San Francisco, Seattle, etc. to get interesting and high paying tech jobs. If that is the case, I suspect a lot of people will leave those crazy expensive cities. If that trend does hold true, how will companies determine salaries? For example, if I live and work in NYC I expect a much higher salary than i would if I lived and worked in north Dakota. But if I live in north dakota and my company is based in NYC, how would you negotiate a salary? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 24 Jun 2020 03:57 AM PDT ..A question about early freelance direction. When I first started freelancing, I have to say the absolute hardest thing was finding quality clients... and I set a goal of contacting at least 2 new potential clients a day. If you've recently got into freelancing (or are thinking about it) what are the goals your setting for yourself? And what's been the hardest thing about your transition? [link] [comments]  |
| Graduated in December and still have not found a job Posted: 23 Jun 2020 09:38 PM PDT I have an IT degree and ive been applying for everything - from help desk, deskside support, junior developer and networking roles, security, yet nothing. I had an internship as an Application Developer last year and I have a 4 year degree in IT. i have been applying on indeed and linkedin as well as other boards. I'm starting to lose hope as I currently work as a cashier at walgreens. Any help would be appreciated [link] [comments]  |
| LinkedIn question: Which job title do I use?? Posted: 24 Jun 2020 07:21 AM PDT Hi! So I applied for the position "Junior Network Engineer", got accepted, but on my work contract it says Network Remote Technical Support Specialist and on some work emails it says Associate Network Support Specialist. So I have to choose which from these 3 titles to use on my LinkedIn. They kind of mean the same, don't they? So which one do I use? Alternatively I can just write Cisco TAC Engineer which IMO is the most accurate... I really don't want to be misleading. It's my first job in this field so I'm not quite sure what to do... Thanks for any and all help in advance! [link] [comments]  |
| Network Admin in a crisis and cross-roads Posted: 24 Jun 2020 06:10 AM PDT Hey all, Cloud Architecture has really piqued my interest. Though I have no background w/ Cloud (besides just recently finishing the AWS CP course) I would really like to get in there. But it seems the opportunities around me will at least require me to have some certs to back my knowledge before I can get in the door. I love networking but my passion for it is stagnating a little and Cloud seems like an exciting challenge. But I might need a job sooner than later... and on the networking front, though I have some experience, I only have my CCENT. I think I could do the CCNA in 3 months or less which might immediately benefit me. But also, money is tight. So do I try to get my CCNA ASAP to leverage a better position in my current job search and then go from there? Or do I take the potential 3-6 months I have to work on all the AWS / GCP/ AZure Cloud certs I can (which will be hard because $$$) to try to get an associate-level Cloud job? Sorry if this has been asked in some form before. Just feeling very unsure and honestly like I probably have not done enough in the past couple of years... Thanks for your time. [link] [comments]  |
| I’m feel extremely burnt out on help desk. Is there a light at the end of the tunnel? Posted: 23 Jun 2020 07:14 PM PDT I had started my IT career at a call center as tech support (6 months) then got offered a 3 month contract as a field tech for a hospital (I loved this).. Once this contract was up it was the holidays and I could not find a job for the life of me, so I jumped at the first thing that came close.. Another tech support position, I have been here for the last 4/5 month and feel like I'm trapped in a call center with Covid-19 and the market on verge of collapse. How do I get one of these ivory tower IT gigs that pays a living wage and isn't a call center? $11/hour is making me cry. And on another note, there is a fellow employee on my team that claims to have his A+,N+, & Sec+... how is he still working in a call center/help desk? [link] [comments]  |
| Next Steps Towards Security Career Posted: 23 Jun 2020 08:08 PM PDT Senior CS major with minor in Cybersecurity. It seems certificates are a necessary addition to a CS degree to best streamline a career in cybersecurity (specifically pentesting). What would be the best certificates to start with and which ones should I skip based on the knowledge I will have gained from college? Im thinking Network+ -> Security+ -> OSCP to start, but I am unsure if I'm missing anything. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 23 Jun 2020 04:18 PM PDT Hey everyone, as I end my naval service commitment I've been researching possible jobs outside the navy. My background is 4.5 years of experience as a naval officer working in IAM, IT infrastructure, vulnerability management, information assurance, and SOC/NOC operations. For certs/education I have a BS in EE, working on an MS in Cybersecurity, and have CISSP, Sec+, AWS-SA, AWS-CCP, and a TS/SCI. I'm hoping to land a GRC or IT risk analyst role in NYC or DC after the navy. I've been asking my professional network how valuable my navy experience is to the civilian world, and I have received extremely conflicting information. On one hand, there are people that say "With your clearance and certs, move to DC and you will easily make over 160k after the navy." Oppositely, there are people that say "Contractors do all the technical IT work in the military, you should shoot for a junior position and actually learn how IT and cyber works." As I don't really know what the world is like outside the navy, is anyone able to provide additional context into salaries in the civilian IT and cybersecurity world coming from a military background? I understand there is huge variety based on role and location, but any insights would be super helpful! [link] [comments]  |
| Bachelors Degree + Certificates Posted: 23 Jun 2020 11:19 PM PDT Hello all! I will need to pick a concentration soon for my major (Bus. Admin.) and I am planning on picking Information Systems. I already have experience in the field by interning at a small MSP company & I really enjoyed it! I plan on taking the A+ and Network+ certificates sometime during the rest of my undergraduate year (A+ this year & Network+ before graduation). Will this make me more competitive by the time I graduate or should I stick to my Bachelor's? How else can I be a competitive candidate? Thank you in advance! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 23 Jun 2020 04:15 PM PDT I'm currently struggling with my career situation. I started my job about a decade ago as an intern working in COBOL on a mainframe before I had finished college for my (non-programming) degree. The company culture was pretty relaxed and everyone seemed to enjoy being there. Over time, the management style started to shift and more and more demand was being placed on developers in expected overtime and workload. I was in my 20s and I adapted to it-- I was single, living at home, saving up money, and looking to eventually buy a house. Being a younger dev, I was shifted from the mainframe systems to a modernized proprietary platform (using a language similar to Java which compiles to Java bytecode) fairly early in my career. I worked hard and long hours as I had no training or experience in OOP, but eventually became very proficient and motivated. Thankfully, I was consistently promoted eventually to Senior Software Engineer. I was in my early 30s when this happened, and shortly after this promotion I was starting to feel the effects of burn-out. I had been neglecting my personal life in service of my job and had been supporting a somewhat shaky production system in addition to being brought onto several death-march projects as a "problem solver". While our off-hours rotation was not too bad, I was beginning to get fed up with having been on a rotation for 8 years by that point with no real break. I had bought a house that I wanted to start enjoying, I wanted to pursue some non-screen staring hobbies outside of work, and I wanted to start dating, which was something I put off almost entirely because of my career. The energy I had in my 20s for nights and weekends was long gone. As of last year, our department was drastically reorganized. Instead of our previous organization of teams being sectioned by which application they supported, they were split into service and project scrum teams. I was told that I was chosen to go on the production service team. We would be supporting much more territory with far fewer developers and a smaller off-hours rotation. I immediately felt my anxiety and depression bubble up and most of the concerns I had about this setup have come true. We have spent very little of our time since the reorganization doing any significant amount of programming. Most of our guys are spending their time going on wild goose chases, acting as an extension of the help desk, making tweaks to legacy stuff, or dealing with issues indirectly introduced by project teams. After a couple of months of this, I'm fed up. I have been melting down and unable to deal with the stress and chaos of supporting a production system on an almost daily basis since then-- I do not like what this role is doing to me. Our department's plan is to eventually rotate people on the service teams into project roles and vice versa, but there is no timetable for this yet. I'm currently making serious inquiries to see if I can get transitioned from my current team to one of the project teams early so I can get some kind of reprieve from dealing with production, as many of the people who I used to work with have had very good things to say about their day to day. In the event that management won't allow me to transition, I'm considering what to do next. I'm a bit panicked that my title is overstated for what my skill set actually includes. For actual technical knowledge, I have SQL, SVN, Eclipse, JMS, and some (outdated) Java 6 experience in some decently complex work like solving concurrency issues, memory/GC analysis, and performance tuning. However, the bulk of my knowledge and certification is in a proprietary framework developing with the Java derivative. I've been reading up on job postings and the requirements for someone with my title (even without senior) seem far beyond what I have for a skill set. At the moment, I'm in a position where I have no opportunities to learn any new industry standard skills on the job and my existing skill set is actively atrophying. My day leaves me so exhausted and upset that I'm having a hard time working up the energy to teach myself anything. These questions might seem obvious or sound like things I should research for my own self, but I've got really bad mental fog and have been circling on these for a while. I have no friends in the industry outside my own company so I have zero perspective. I'd really appreciate any thoughts this subreddit has.
tl;dr - a job I used to appreciate has become a daily stress bomb for me, and I'm not sure if I have the ability or skills to move on. Any advice anyone has to offer would be greatly appreciated. I'm working with a therapist on getting things together emotionally, but I could really use some help from you folks with more standard industry experience. [link] [comments]  |
| Network Engineer --> Azure Cloud Architect? Posted: 23 Jun 2020 03:56 PM PDT I finally reached all of my career goals in getting the CCNA and getting a position as a Network Engineer. Besides getting that experience my mind has been looking for a new goal to crush. Something that is going to push me forward in my career and I have decided to go down the Azure Cloud Architect side of things. Seems like the cloud is the big buzz word and the way of the future. I am very unfamiliar with what job roles there are out there but I came across the Cloud Architect or the AZ-300 certs. I dont want to veer to much of networking to get into development. It seems like architect you need to be strong in networking as other things and I love the designing part of the cert and the potential jobs. So as of right now I am working on getting my AZ-900 to let my employer know that I am serious about azure. What do you guys think? Any advice from the cloud architects out there on what I should also be learning would be great. I just feel like thats the easiest transition from a Networking Engineer to the cloud field. Do you guys think it would be a good first cloud certification? Or is the architect certification recommended for people years into the azure technology. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 23 Jun 2020 05:46 PM PDT Helping out a friend in need. Potentially has a hook up to get an internship in these 4 areas. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 23 Jun 2020 11:42 AM PDT To be really honest, my thoughts are all over the place and I'm probably spiralling. I currently work as a tech support guy, this year it'll be two years, I know its not a lot, I've sort of got a pseudo position where I help the people on floor which is almost the same as customers. I don't know where I fit, I'm good with linux on the consumer end been using it for almost 6 years, still getting used to sysadmin part as I wanted to be a linux sysadmin and yes I know sysadmin requires both windows and linux, but I'm also good at programming, been doing python for few years now and I'm currently working on a tool for the place I work, but ideas don't come easily to me when I want to just learn. So I'm trying to get out of this current job, I looked online and found Microsoft Azure to have free tutorials but I don't know what to do learning it like I don't have an end goal, for example learning it without having a project doesn't work for me, but I have no clue what can I setup. I honestly don't know what I'm asking here, I want to move out but there are so many things that its overwhelming me, there is Programming jobs, DevOps, Microsoft certifications, AWS certifications, RHCSA/RHCE and due to the current situation I don't think I can give a certification exam. Have anyone of you all been in such a dilemma, I'm honestly lost and this is really doing a number on my brain. Thank you for reading. Edit: [link] [comments]  |
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