IT Career [Weekly] What would you like to know Wednesday? General Question Thread |
- [Weekly] What would you like to know Wednesday? General Question Thread
- People who graduated in the last 5 years
- Is every IT job a disaster?
- Help me create a shitty recruiter spam filter
- Best course on LinkedIn Learning?
- What was your starting salary after college/university?
- Going from restaurant work to networking. How?
- Allrounder or specialize?
- MIS Study plan,Does it cover all academic grounds and help through real world problems and employment?
- Working in EU
- should I accept an IT Support Engineer position with Amazon if my end-goal is Cloud Computing? (New Grad)
- What can I do with an MIS degree and what electives should I take for a successful career (esp. for the slightly introverted)?
- MIS major advice
- CompTIA certifications
- What's the best way to break into IT? Should I go for certs first, or go back to school?
- How hard are 1st Line Support jobs for people without IT Qualifications?
- Getting an AS in Cybersecurity: Good Idea?
- Do you guys enjoy going to your jobs?
- For someone who wants to become a cloud engineer... in terms of learning networking, which route is better?
- What comes after IT?
- Looking for a mid/late career transition
- Salary for a Support tech with Certs (USA)
- Certifications without education
- Is order management specialist for telecommunications company a glorified call center job?
- IT Career Test/ Quiz
| [Weekly] What would you like to know Wednesday? General Question Thread Posted: 02 Sep 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:
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| People who graduated in the last 5 years Posted: 02 Sep 2020 02:31 AM PDT
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| Posted: 02 Sep 2020 09:12 AM PDT So far I've been working in this industry a few years. Some government contract, enterprise IT, and for small companies running the department. I have yet to find a job that isn't completely toxic. Right now I have a manager who does as little as possible to actually manage our department because he's trying to get a raise and only advancing his own agenda. So he's been putting off all of the actual department management responsibilities off on us. Not to mention that learning how this enterprise works during this quarantine while only have been working from home the entire time (with no on the job experience at this place) has been an absolute nightmare. I quit my last job because the working conditions were terrible, they had us smashed into a small space where we worked practically on top of each other and my co-workers were like 15 year old children. I mean is this every job in IT? Is there better jobs out there? [link] [comments]  |
| Help me create a shitty recruiter spam filter Posted: 02 Sep 2020 09:12 AM PDT I am getting spammed by shitty recruiters, who are mostly Indian identity thieves (and a few Americans), who want my social security number, date of birth and rate information. Please help me create a spam filter that can be added to Gmail. Please post your filters below. [link] [comments]  |
| Best course on LinkedIn Learning? Posted: 02 Sep 2020 05:22 AM PDT What's the best LinkedIn Learning course you've completed that have give you a good foundation to pass relevant cert?. Eg. DevOps, ITIL managing professional, project management, Google cloud, AWS solutions architect, CISSP, CBAP etc. Obviously, you would complete the courses that are on the trajectory of your career path or similar domain. [link] [comments]  |
| What was your starting salary after college/university? Posted: 02 Sep 2020 01:44 AM PDT |
| Going from restaurant work to networking. How? Posted: 01 Sep 2020 11:41 PM PDT As the title suggests I want to start moving towards working in networking or IT in general. For the last 4 years I've been working as a chef and even though I enjoy it the financial- and career development isn't really what I would want, especially since me and my gf want to have children soon. So what should my first steps be going towards a career in networking? I would like to continue working full time while I study because we still have house to pay for and if she goes on maternal leave she doesn't get full salary either. I have basically zero knowledge besides interest and a couple of basic programming courses in python from college like 6 years ago. Is a degree something you need in this line of work or do companies look for the right certs instead? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Sep 2020 02:44 AM PDT Currently I'm basically an IT allrounder. I develop some little tools, do windows and linux servers, networking, windows clients. A little bit of everything. I'm covering pretty much the needs of a small to medium sized company. The problem I'm seeing in this is that my knowledge is widely diversified but not very profound and my impression is that if I want to go forward with my career I need to specialize. This impression is mostly based on job advertisements I have read. Most of the employers are searching for specialized people. And if they are searching for allrounder only for 1st level support on low wages. What are your thoughts on this? Should I specialize in one field or are there career chances for allrounder? To be honest I really love the variety I currently have in my job, but I can't see how I can get further with it. Thanks. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Sep 2020 06:52 AM PDT Long post I'm soon to start an information systems BS and I'm torn between 2 different schools that are relatively connected and or have a high employment rate for it's fresh grads, these courses' names are translated from a different language so the terminology may differ, my ultimate goal is to become a DBA/Data analyst/Data engineer/Software QA Engineer and move into IT management down the line. *Each class is 3 Credit hours and each lab is an additional credit. **I've tried to group everything into little groups as I go in the list, for example the accounting courses are together and so on. MANDATORY : •intro to CS & Lab. •OOP programming & lab. •Fourth-generation programming language & lab. •Web development & Lab. • E-commerce and E-government. •Information systems 101 • Information systems; design and analysis (1) •Business calculus • applied stats; introduction. •Business administration (1) •Marketing administration •Electronic marketing •Accounting (1) Accounting information systems • Computer networks for business solutions. •Computer networks management & lab. •Databases using oracle SQL & lab. •Database management systems •Expert systems; An introduction. •HR information systems •Decision support Systems •Operating systems (1) •Multimedia • IT project management •knowledge management •computing ethics and legal disputes. • information systems security •Capstone •internship ELECTIVES: -6CHs (2 courses) to be chosen from the IS dept: •visual basic .Net programming & Lab (Elective labs don't count as a CH) •Operations research & lab. •the scientific method for technology students •production information systems •inventory management information systems •Production & operations management •Information retrieval •Ed. Technology -6CHs (2 courses) to be chosen from the CS dept: •Digital Logic & Lab. •Java programming & Lab. •Data structures •Visual programming & lab. •computer architecture •algorithms; design and analysis (1) •Software engineering (1) & lab. •Advanced programming tools & lab. -6CHs (2 courses) to be chosen from the Finance dept,business school. : •financial management •financial and banking science •financial information systems
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| Posted: 02 Sep 2020 01:39 AM PDT Hello, I'm working in Turkey as a senior system engineer for 9 years. I always dreamed to live and work EU but I tired of waiting. Need your comments about my cv. Certificates; *All Netapp certs up to date except cloud (working as a netapp asp) *Vmware- Data Center Virtualization 2019 *Azure Administrator Associate *AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Experience; I worked 2 years as a end user support. Then changed my job to improve myself.Started junior system engineer for a small company. Because of my English, company promote me to Netapp support division after 1 year. Working as a ASP help me to discover and known different systems and get customer experience. Lastly I changed my job again two years ago, now I am giving support Netapp as ASP but also VMware,Microsoft and cloud. Current job really huge effects on my improvements. I also droped college on my second year.Basically I am just high school graduate. I am not proud of that but when I look back those years, I am regret droping college because it was not related what I am doing right now. If I resume collegue, I would not be in IT business. This is my little history, I really want to hear your comments with pros and cons. Have a great day ! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Sep 2020 10:18 AM PDT I will be graduating in December, and just got offered a position with Amazon as an IT Support Engineer. Is this a back-track to a career in cloud or should I look for a jr linux admin-type position? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 Sep 2020 07:28 PM PDT I am currently a senior and I have to pick 2 electives in MIS. I wanted to know what some hot topics in the industry are that will look good on my transcript [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Sep 2020 10:07 AM PDT In October, I will be a first-year MIS major. I have read through all the courses we have to take as a freshman nothing too hard just some course about accounting basic programming and some philosophy class. So I am thinking of self-study some online course in order to get an internship as soon as possible. But I don't know what course should I choose, can I jump right into cybersecurity or data science, or learn about web development or some analysts course. I want to work in database networks cybersecurity or data science. Thanks a lot, everyone. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Sep 2020 10:07 AM PDT Hey everyone I'm quite new in IT and I'm wondering how far the CompTIA trifecta will bring me in my IT career I'm planning on taking A+ this month and N+ next month or the November and S+ for my birthday or beginning January. Thanks for the input [link] [comments]  |
| What's the best way to break into IT? Should I go for certs first, or go back to school? Posted: 02 Sep 2020 10:06 AM PDT I'm a twenty year old male who left college a little over a year ago as I didn't want to pay a lot of money when I didn't even know what I wanted to do. Now that I'd like to go into IT, I wonder if it would be a worthy investment to go back. I work in retail full-time, so balancing a job and classes would be difficult, especially since I have ADHD. What advice do you have? What would you recommend I do? [link] [comments]  |
| How hard are 1st Line Support jobs for people without IT Qualifications? Posted: 02 Sep 2020 10:05 AM PDT Hey! So as the title suggests, basically 23, have a Masters Degree in an unrelated field (Humanities) and have been working the last couple years in a school but for a while I've been thinking about getting involved with IT. Recently went back to my old job in a school but just not feeling it much anymore (plus messing about with hours & duties just a pretty toxic environment) and recently a ' 1st Line Support Analyst' job has appeared in my area. Stating 'an average of 60 tickets a day logged at the helpdesk' and speaks with applications being favourable to those who have a background in IT (obviously). But hypothetically speaking if I were to manage to get through to interviews/actually getting the job not having any IT qualifications (beyond GCSE) be that big of a barrier? I have a friend who referred to 1st Line as basically a call centre where most of the time it's resetting user passwords or minor issues, but he's no expert himself in that regard either. So I thought I'd ask you lovely lot on here. I do have an interest in IT, been using computers practically daily for the last 13 years - familiar with basic troubleshooting of tech issues and where that fails googling to tinker it myself and a genuine fascination with it. Just happens I've only really realized it now that 'I'm done' with education. Obviously this post is hypothetically speaking if i were to even get so far as to get the job but any advice or any people like myself who had no working experience of qualifications who got into IT how'd you do it? I know courses are available but none are currently running in my region and even then aren't exactly cheap. So any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Getting an AS in Cybersecurity: Good Idea? Posted: 02 Sep 2020 09:51 AM PDT So, I'm (32m) going to start taking classes at a community college for an AS in Cybersecurity. I was thinking that maybe a focus on cloud would be a good idea, but I don't know which has the better prospects for coming straight out. Any ideas? I'm pretty much done with my A+ cert and am trying to find a HD position currently. Pretty fresh to the IT career field. [link] [comments]  |
| Do you guys enjoy going to your jobs? Posted: 02 Sep 2020 09:39 AM PDT Was all the work worth it. I love technology but I don't see myself working for a major company, seems boring. Is it worth it? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Sep 2020 09:29 AM PDT 1) Network+, CCNA, AWS cert(s) 2) CCNA, AWS cert(s)? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Sep 2020 09:11 AM PDT I have been a network admin at a small bank for 5 years and am generally happy with the position. The reason I am happy is our technology is very static and somewhat dated so I don't need to learn new things. I like IT to a point but have no interest studying to learn new things. My boss will be retiring in 4 years and he wants me to take on his role as Chief Information Security Officer and IT Manager. I have no interest in management and am sick of IT in general. What would be some good careers to look into? I am a decent mechanic but don't really want to turn wrenches all day, every day. I was thinking of becoming an advanced automotive electronics diagnoser. Be an expert at the best scan tools and travel to shops in the area to handle diagnostics above their expertise. Has anyone done something like this? TLDR; What is a good segue career that is not IT? [link] [comments]  |
| Looking for a mid/late career transition Posted: 02 Sep 2020 09:07 AM PDT 45 years old, with about 20 years of experience in IT* but as something of a generalist. My title right now is database administrator but I'd say my duties are about 30% administering a handful of tiny SQL Server, MySQL, and Oracle installations, 50% writing reports in tableau and SSRS, 10% ETLs in SSIS, and 10% miscellaneous (Python, light app troubleshooting, data validation, etc.). I also have a little experience managing teams, running projects, etc. *The 20 years is basically all at a public university and yes, I know how much value that experience is accorded by private industry. The pay is relatively poor so on the plus side (?) taking a step back into a 'lower' position probably wouldn't impact my paycheck as much as it would otherwise. Basically I'm hoping to put together a 1 year learning/personal project/certification development plan to be able to transition into a different area which leverages at least some of my existing skills (database, development, etc.) and positions me to realistically look at other positions, preferably ones where there's a reasonable amount of demand and that might be accepting to older workers. I guess I'm thinking possibly data engineering, data ops, or something similar, but any advice or direction greatly appreciated. The focus, really, is on a finding a path that has realistic potential given my age and somewhat fragmented experience.... [link] [comments]  |
| Salary for a Support tech with Certs (USA) Posted: 02 Sep 2020 09:01 AM PDT I'm currently working part time at a company in Ohio and I graduate soon with a Associates degree in computer science and I am working as a support tech and I will graduate with my A+ Certification and Network+ and 1.5 years of experience in that company. [I currently make $12 an hour part time] What's an expected/fair salary offer for this line of work? I've checked LinkedIn and it states around $45,000 or 23 an hour but I wanna hear more opinions [link] [comments]  |
| Certifications without education Posted: 02 Sep 2020 02:49 AM PDT Hello guys, So, I don't have much education (almost none if you'd say so). I want to enter IT and i saw the certifications CompTIA A+, Sec+, and Net+. Based on these certifications, can I get at least a job at desk help and move from there? [link] [comments]  |
| Is order management specialist for telecommunications company a glorified call center job? Posted: 01 Sep 2020 10:05 PM PDT As the title goes, is order management specialist a glorified call center job? Thoughts! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 Sep 2020 09:13 PM PDT Want to share this: https://www.yourfreecareertest.com/career-tests/technology-career-test/ decent IT career test/ quiz (Lately been having a hard time determining what IT career I want.) Reflection on my scores: I scored highest in Development then Cybersecurity next. But I only inputted 2 "Very Interested" answer and took note of them: troubleshooting software code and hacking software to identify security risks. I took a screenshot of all my answers and noticed that I put high answers for questions relating to "learning to programming languages", which is the reason why I scored highest in Development, but when I ask my myself whether or not I would like to put my knowledge of programming to use to meet clients' requests, I don't like it very much. The element of discovery/ learning programming languages is gone and I'm simply inputting code to meet clients' needs, which I don't feel I want. This leaves me to either QA Tester/ Engineer/ SDET or Cybersecurity stuff. But remote work, which is a factor I value, is scarce for Cybersecurity. That leaves me with QA Tester/ Engineer, where I troubleshoot software code (one of the two questions where I inputted "Very Interested") while constantly learning programming languages (which is the reason why Development is my highest score). Hope this test can also be a benefit to you! [link] [comments]  |
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