IT Career Low stress, good pay to probably high stress, absurd pay. What would you do? |
- Low stress, good pay to probably high stress, absurd pay. What would you do?
- Learning Maths to make a career change into Data Analyst?
- How to get back into IT after a 3 year break; especially from a washed out IT dude?
- Job looking to move me from Helpdesk to a Cloud Engineer
- What are some IT projects a beginner can do to get hands on experience and that would look good to a hiring manager?
- Switched careers into IT and got my foot in the door. Where do I go from here?
- New to this industry - seeking advice for getting my foot in the door
- 17, Sixth form in London. Want to do a degree apprenticeship. will LPIC-1 / Linux+ cert. help me?
- Co-worker fired and now making $25k more. It's tearing me apart, Lisa!
- Fraud ingestion IT career path is there such a thing
- Knowledge of Mobileiron Mobile Device Management and Endpoint Security
- Resume - Have Sent Out over 200 Applications Thus Far, Any Help?
- Best Course for Cyber security online. As I am already enrolled in CS degree
- I am back, I will be submitting my application soon and wanted one last check over my resume and cover letter.
- Systems Analyst looking to boost my qualifications/enter management
- MSP owner thinking about sliding into Apple, advice please?
- Promoted above my ability, Should I go find a different job?
- Not really a question, just a connection making moment I just had that I thought would help someone on here
- Is it worth it to move from a PC software/repair shop to a help desk analyst position at a bigger company.
- I am in the field already but want to be strategic about my next educational accomplishment so I reach a higher rank in my field of system administration with an emphasis on security
- I am graduating on Saturday, don't have a job yet, am I in danger or is this normal?
- Seeing people who have acquired oscp but still not getting job offers.Is it still a respected cert?
- Per Scholas Java program - Phoenix Region or general review
| Low stress, good pay to probably high stress, absurd pay. What would you do? Posted: 29 Apr 2021 06:36 AM PDT I find myself fortunate to have such a good kind of career dilemma -- for context, I'm 23 with no certs/degree and currently employed at an SMB's internal IT department as a sysadmin making $85k/year in a medium COL area with excellent benefits: 100% up to 8% 401k match, great health insurance, and 7% annual raises are standard. I've been with this company for 2 years now and declined a $110k job offer from a firm in a high COL city, but used it to negotiate a 30% raise at my job (went from $62k -> $80k in the first year). My team is good, the job is low stress (rarely work after hours, never work overtime), and the company values us. 20 minute commute one way. My job security is incredible. Once again, a bigger firm in that same HCOL big city wants to hire me but with an exorbitant comp package. The role is systems engineering for about $165k/year. Unfortunately, the commute would be ~1 hour and 30 minutes one way whether I use public transport or drive into the city with my truck. As such, I'd probably have to sell my house and move into the city. I can also tell that the job would probably be much higher stress and has stipulations for on-call for one full week every month. I certainly feel like I have the potential to learn a lot more at the new opportunity, but I also fear that I am sacrificing a "dream job" (i.e. overpaid, underworked, low stress) in this industry to chase arbitrarily bigger paychecks. I also fear that should I be fired from the new gig, I doubt I'd be able to easily find a generic non-MSP sysadmin role that treats me as well as I'm currently treated. Thoughts? Advice? [link] [comments]  |
| Learning Maths to make a career change into Data Analyst? Posted: 29 Apr 2021 06:06 AM PDT I have had a few different IT jobs in the past ranging from QA tester to IT support and now I work as an online helpdesk call centre. Mostly Level 1 IT support stuff. I really like the concept of Data Analysis but I was often put off by the concept because I wasn't that great at Maths. I was one of those people that liked it a lot in primary school but then in secondary school, most of the concepts went over my head. It's one of those things that I regret in life. I was thinking maybe I could do some online courses like Udemy for the Maths fundamentals and maybe over time I could get good at it for starting a career in data analysis. [link] [comments]  |
| How to get back into IT after a 3 year break; especially from a washed out IT dude? Posted: 29 Apr 2021 09:42 AM PDT Long story hopefully short; My first 2 IT jobs started in 2015 and ended in 2018. I was a Network Systems Analyst for a corporate business who owned 2 tech colleges. I worked about 3 years and found a better life balancing job. 2 months in and happy af; laid off due to budget cuts. I worked in medical / IT it was a dream. After that my lifetime mental health issues resurfaced and I went into a depression while I job searched. No luck so I worked Instacart with my wife for 2 years because we made actual bank til before and after covid hit us. Now I'm taking a Google course (prob shouldn't have?) and now I have no clue what the hell to do because I basically forgot everything and feel zero confidence in my skills. How do I bounce back? How do I prove to employers I'm still passionate and capable? I appreciate you all I'm lost and having issues pursuing IT again. If you have ANY Q's please ask in dm or here. Thank you! [link] [comments]  |
| Job looking to move me from Helpdesk to a Cloud Engineer Posted: 29 Apr 2021 04:11 AM PDT So I started off at an intern at this company and was eventually pulled up to full time through hard work and dedication. I just met with my boss the other day and he told me that he and our IT director wanted to open some new positions and they would like to see me in one of those before the new fiscal year. The catch is though they want to see me get my Linux+ cert. As someone with little to no experience how would I go to start studying, what kind of materials should I look into that might help someone with my knowledge? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Apr 2021 06:35 PM PDT As the title suggest i'm currently looking into doing some IT side projects to show employers I take initiative to do IT. I'm not in the position as of right now to build a home lab and was wondering what are some alternatives? [link] [comments]  |
| Switched careers into IT and got my foot in the door. Where do I go from here? Posted: 29 Apr 2021 10:16 AM PDT I recently switched fields from healthcare into IT. I started out by getting my A+ cert and sending out a ton of applications. The tier 1 help desk positions did not seem to want me as I didn't have experience with ticketing software. Eventually, I was hired by a staffing company(very short contracts). I'm currently working on a project doing hundreds of wipes for decommissioned pcs and rolling out some new ones for the texas dept of health. This work seems temporary. Many people I've worked with have already left and I am actively applying out there too. What I'm wondering is where do I go next in my training and job search. Im at a community college I'll be starting a program soon for a cert in network admin that rolls into an associate's in cyber security. That's my greatest interest. I like working with Linux, I think security is going to continue to be a huge issue going forward. I can also see myself going towards system admin too. I have Kali linux on a VM at home that in currently labing, really in just learning terminal commands rn but maybe later I can play with some of the security tools. What kind of jobs should I look for when this temporary contract ends? Should I get some more certs? Which ones if so? Will I need a bachelor's? Tl;dr : new to IT. Temp staffing currently, interest in linux, info sec and sysadmin. What jobs/skills should I look for next? [link] [comments]  |
| New to this industry - seeking advice for getting my foot in the door Posted: 29 Apr 2021 08:35 AM PDT Covid has had a major impact on all of us and I've decided to go from Starbucks supervisor/barista to IT since I envision computers being the future and a career I can fall in love with, I am a gamer on my free time, I love technology just never studied it enough to be considered for a job until recently. So far I've completed and received the comptia A+ 3 weeks ago and I'm halfway through N+ and while also studying for the CCNA. I noticed recently that there are more job postings for IT in my area (nyc) and I want to send out a few feelers and see if any employers here have any interest. I just don't know how to construct my resume for an it support/desktop support/help desk/anything position to begin my journey and start climbing these ladders. I am seeking advice from all of you smart people who are experienced and have been in my shoes before. Besides me being at Starbucks I come from a line of jobs in food service and working in hotels. Im about to turn 30 and Im looking to succeed in this going forward. Besides my lack of knowledge on how to construct my resume, what employers are looking for based on my knowledge level ? Also, what other positions should I search for? Is anyone familiar with nyc and if "staffing" companies should be a route I should explore given your experience if you went that route or know of others who did? OR would it come down to me finishing up my N+ in 2 weeks to spruce up my resume and eventually tackle the ccna in that order since the ccna has a shit load of content. IF you made it this far I appreciate any advice you can send my way. Best regards [link] [comments]  |
| 17, Sixth form in London. Want to do a degree apprenticeship. will LPIC-1 / Linux+ cert. help me? Posted: 29 Apr 2021 10:28 AM PDT TL;DR: Sixth form student in London, How useful is a LPIC-1 / Linux+ certification for getting a level 5/6 apprenticeship? I am currently 17 in London doing Phys, Maths and CS a levels. I have about 5 years experience of both Linux and python (although i dont program much aside from school-work) . I also have basic knowledge of some other miscellaneous things such as running home web servers with apache and website development. Next year I will be taking a gap year just to take a break (cycling around the world for charity) then I am forward to start a degree apprenticeship. Ideally I want to become either a network engineer or sysadmin. I am also considering software engineering, however, its a backup choice as I dont have either any major qualifications and im not greatly interested by it. Speaking of qualifications, I want to do a LPIC-1 / Linux+ certification. I personally think it would be pretty good but im not willing to spend £200 and days of revision on something that would sit in the footnotes of my CV. Would love to hear opinions on what I should do (aside from doing well in my A-levels) [link] [comments]  |
| Co-worker fired and now making $25k more. It's tearing me apart, Lisa! Posted: 29 Apr 2021 10:25 AM PDT Hi Reddit, Current Situation: I currently make around 90k with bonuses included. The only same-level colleague of mine that was making the same exact salary as me was fired about 2 months ago, and has since gotten a position making 115k. Keep in mind I have been praised since day 1 on how great I am at my position, and he was fired because "he wasn't at the standard that I am at". We have been interviewing for 2 months to replace him and have realized the standard I work at for the price will be hard to find. Proposal: I obviously want more money. The fact that my only co-worker was fired and is now making 25k more is driving me insane. I've interviewed with a few places but have only gotten offers up to 97k with bonuses (only 7k higher than my current). It's obvious that he lucked out, but I honestly feel like I could find something similar if I hold out long enough. Our skillset is honestly the same, but my people-skills are much better IMO. Question: How should I approach this situation? Should I wait until an offer comes in and go to my boss to request them to out-bid the external company? I honestly have a good setup here, and I don't want to offend or potentially lose my current position if it means only making 5k-7k more. Should I maybe lie and say I got an offer for around 105k and see how they react? I know the company values me A TON, basically everyone in the company knows my name and how hard I work. I also feel like now would be the best time since we're short-handed and they'd be essentially fucked if I left right now. Open to any notes anyone has. I've never traversed in this salary range and I really don't want to screw it up since I'm still young (late 20s) and feel like I've achieved a ton since I've started my career. Not sure if it matters but I'm an IT Engineer doing mostly server, desktop, and AV support in Dallas TX. Please help me reddit, you're my only hope! [link] [comments]  |
| Fraud ingestion IT career path is there such a thing Posted: 29 Apr 2021 10:10 AM PDT Hey everyone. I was not able to find much when I googled this. Is there a fraud investigation career path in IT? I work for a financial intuition and I have helped our fraud department in the past to a very limited extent but the work they is really interesting to me and I wanted to see if there was some type of crossover. TIA [link] [comments]  |
| Knowledge of Mobileiron Mobile Device Management and Endpoint Security Posted: 29 Apr 2021 10:04 AM PDT A position I want to apply to requires excellent knowledge of Mobileiron Mobile Device Management and endpoint security. What does this mean precisely? And how can I gain such knowledge? My only background is the Google IT Support Certificate. [link] [comments]  |
| Resume - Have Sent Out over 200 Applications Thus Far, Any Help? Posted: 29 Apr 2021 09:43 AM PDT Resume: https://imgur.com/a/ErjhTbR I have sent out a lot of applications for entry level IT jobs in an area with a lot of openings but am not getting much attention. So far I have had one interview in months. I got my ITF+, A+, Sec+, Cloud Essentials+, and a few other certs recently. I am studying for LPI Linux Essentials. I have a non-technical associates' and was studying for a science bachelor's. What can I do to change my resume? Thank you for any thoughts. [link] [comments]  |
| Best Course for Cyber security online. As I am already enrolled in CS degree Posted: 29 Apr 2021 09:26 AM PDT I am looking to get job in cyber security in future and I am already enrolled in CS degree in my university. Can you guys suggest me some good courses to buy online to get my future in cyber security [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Apr 2021 08:56 AM PDT If you guys saw my last post you will know I am trying hard to get this job and beat out about 15 other applicants. I really want my resume and cover letter to be good to go as I have the smallest amount of experience constructing each of the documents. If you can look at this and tell me where I can improve that would be much appreciated. Resume: https://imgur.com/osBdEYY Cover letter: https://imgur.com/a/FiLwEmq [link] [comments]  |
| Systems Analyst looking to boost my qualifications/enter management Posted: 29 Apr 2021 08:54 AM PDT Hello everyone! I realized that college wasn't for me at the time (I didn't know what I wanted to do) and started working at the helpdesk level. Over the last ten years, I have moved up into a Jr. DBA/Application support role and now currently work as a Systems Analyst. I do know that I want to move into a management role (helpdesk or app support, either), I just don't know what I need to do to get there. [link] [comments]  |
| MSP owner thinking about sliding into Apple, advice please? Posted: 29 Apr 2021 08:50 AM PDT Background: I've run an MSP for many years now. I sometimes think about at least going through the interview process at company I think I'd like to work at, to see how I'd do. Apple is opening up a campus in the Raleigh NC area, which is basically where I grew up. The appeal of pulling down a good salary in the comparatively better standard of living that Raleigh offers over the Bay Area has piqued my interest. But I've only ever been approached by companies, never gone after one. What is my best approach? Finding a headhunter? What level position would that qualify me for? What else should I know, including "DON"T DO IT" lol [link] [comments]  |
| Promoted above my ability, Should I go find a different job? Posted: 28 Apr 2021 02:28 PM PDT I am the Peter Principal. I have been made IT manager and feel like I'm just absolute shit at it and wondering if I should go find a sysadmin job somewhere else? I have always felt like I'm a good tech and decent with people but now all I get is people whining at me that something isn't done or Tech x didn't reply to my ticket (99% of the time they did within 30 mins of ticket creation because my techs are really good, they're the best part of this job) I always felt some imposter as sysadmin but I took over the dept I at now 3 years ago and grown it from just me to a team of 4. I'm not trying to say I'm great I actually think I'm pretty shit at this job but I've brought this place from a bunch of windows 2003 servers barely held together by duct tape and bubble gum to a modern azure environment that actually works reliably. My own boss does appreciate the work I've done (She is CFO) and has basically said as we continue to grow she would think it reasonable for me to grow in to a CIO role but IDK should I just take the experience and go work somewhere else or stick it out? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Apr 2021 06:33 PM PDT So I was mindlessly browsing through facebook market place earlier, found a listing of a guy selling x50 Panasonic tough books, always thought they were kind of cool, and they were so cheap so I figured I'd message the guy, after some talking it turns out he is the owner of an IT company, so I told him that I'm a highschool kid with an A+ cert, attending a computer networking class at vocational college, and struggling to even get an internship, and since his place is a 15-minute drive from my house, I told Him I'd consider a nonpaid internship this summer, and he seemed open to the idea and we exchanged numbers. I just thought this moment was too good not to share on this sub, remember folks, always be looking for connections [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Apr 2021 09:49 PM PDT I have an opportunity for a 20/hr 18-month minimum term as a help desk analyst at a large company. Compared to my current pay it's a way better opportunity - but I'm not sure if it's wasting time since I'll likely be dealing with level 1 shit like password resets, adding/removing users in active directory, etc. My current job is some software repair (virus, windows corruption/troubleshooting, etc) but more hardware based repairs - so any hardware issue with a computer - and any data recovery that does not involve taking a drive apart - I do, as well as some basic support for local businesses. My goal is to progress to a sysadmin role - and then roll that over into a cyber security role eventually. I think the help desk analyst offer might be good for this since I'll actually be doing more server-type stuff (although it's just active directory and basic dns/dhcp issues from what the interviewer mentioned) Although the current position I'm in now is less mundane/repetitive, and also gives me time to study for better networking, and eventually security certifications. It's worth noting that my only IT experience is this computer repair job I'm working now - and that I have no college degree. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Apr 2021 10:53 PM PDT I have become a system admin with an associates of applied science in IT earned back in 2013, I want to elevate my career but need a bachelors to nab more job interviews, I love technology and see myself using computers in new ways and inventing stuff and for sure sitting in on the c level of a company as a manager Here's how I was thinking I could get there: Do I pay for a cool but also kinda gimmicky feeling cyber degree from university of Arizona- They say there's no shortage of jobs and being a cso would have a cool fbi vibe to it. Do I go frugal and take a liberal arts online and Thomas Edison university to check the box- I can likely get past the hr this way and use the money saved to rack up some certs to combined with my 10 years of experience will allow me to get the next cool job at a large company where I can move into management. Do I hit up a pure math degree or theory heavy cs degree... I mean since math doesn't get deprecated as Applied science IT degrees would. 2 + 2 will always be 4 but who the hell knows what IT will be up to in 20 years - I'm really digging this since I think problem solving never goes out of style and hiring managers will just assume I'm smart since math is considered very hard. Thanks team! [link] [comments]  |
| I am graduating on Saturday, don't have a job yet, am I in danger or is this normal? Posted: 28 Apr 2021 05:34 PM PDT RESUME: https://imgur.com/a/QIJBgXd Normal doesn't mean the same thing it did a year or 2 ago, but should I be worried about not having a job lined up for after graduation? I will be getting my degree in Cyber Security this week but unfortunately wasn't able to land any internships during the last 4 years. I have been applying for everything from basic helpdesk roles to full cyber roles I know I'm underqualified for. I am primarily looking in the Boston area and around DC. I have only been called back by maybe half a dozen companies over the last few months and so far not one of them has gone anywhere. Is it an issue with my resume or am I just a dop of water in an ocean of applicants? [link] [comments]  |
| Seeing people who have acquired oscp but still not getting job offers.Is it still a respected cert? Posted: 28 Apr 2021 06:06 PM PDT wondering about job prospects for those who are OSCP certified. Did it help open any doors for you? I'm currently CEH and ceh practical certiifed , working on oscp. I've applied for pentesing gigs before with just the ceh and have never gotten any feed back, wondering if it'll be any different with an OSCP. [link] [comments]  |
| Per Scholas Java program - Phoenix Region or general review Posted: 28 Apr 2021 10:23 PM PDT Hello! I was wondering if anyone had a solid review of the Java full stack development program by Per Scholas? I'm looking into it for the Phoenix region and was wondering if anyone had any success with it, how was the interview to get in, and how long it took to get your first job after. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
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