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- Interview for an entry lv IT technician next week. Help with resources?
- Cyber securtiy vs Networking for a newbie getting into the field.
- How do I deal with the fact that I make less than a fast food/gas station worker?
- Could this be listed as helpdesk experience on a resume?
- Anyone here who went from a help desk job to a more lucrative career outside of IT?
- Wanting to learn about blockchain networks, stake pools, nodes
- I`m conflicted between my current job and another offer I received from a major technology company - Would appreciate your take on this.
- AWS Certification Question and woukd like feedback from people already in the industry!
- Attempting to move from Help Desk to Security Analyst. What is the best way to independely learn about SIEMs and other security tools?
- Got hired as a technical support analyst for a large company and my job is starting on 28 June (this month). What should I expect and how do I prepare?
- Help with what to do with career planning and next steps
- Resumé- What to write in the Education Section as a Community College 'Dropout'
- Specific info on the UK IT industry, entry, certs, and my situation.
- Employment question regarding MTA 98-366 network fundamentals
- Junior Developer here. How can I overcome the struggles in the industry?
- I look happy but deep down I think I just really want to code.
- Furious with CompTIA/PearsonVUE: Security+ exam had bugged questions and proctors could not help
- Breaking into IT Business Analyst roles as a graduate
- Which cert should i go for first A+ or security+??
- Looking for part-time work in NOVA. Any recommendations?
- Another career changer here.. looking for networking advice
| Interview for an entry lv IT technician next week. Help with resources? Posted: 05 Jun 2021 07:43 AM PDT I've just came back From Army school, that focuses on IT related stuff. I applied to a couple jobs on indeed and had a phone interview and now they've set up an interview for next week. I was honest about what I know, I don't have any real world IT experience but I was Honest about it. Any tips for the interview? What can I do to review basic network maintenance and entry level IT work. Any help is appreciated it. (Job listing is commented below) [link] [comments]  |
| Cyber securtiy vs Networking for a newbie getting into the field. Posted: 05 Jun 2021 10:03 AM PDT I dont know if this is the correct place to ask this. I have come to a cross roads situation. I am doing a degree apprenticeship in computing however I need to pick a specialization between a network engineer or a cyber security engieer. Which one of these would give me a broader range of skills if I would like to maybe try a new IT path in the future? [link] [comments]  |
| How do I deal with the fact that I make less than a fast food/gas station worker? Posted: 05 Jun 2021 08:40 AM PDT I start Monday at a help desk/call center position and I'm making about 14.50/hr (Florida). Meanwhile, there's a gas station down the road that pays everyone AT LEAST 15. I see people on here saying that the main reason to do help desk is to gain soft skills, get certs, or get "experience" in IT, but are those really worth it? I can get customer service skills at a gas station and I can more than likely study for certs on my own, so is the "experience" that valuable? Combine that with the fact that I see people constantly raving about making home labs, why shouldn't I just go for the extra money at a low skill job to make it easier to pay for certs and build the lab? I really don't see the value in IT anymore, given that I feel like I wasted 3 years at college and a semester at an internship when I could've just gotten the same pay at a FREAKING gas station! Or gotten the same help desk role without a degree or any experience. [link] [comments]  |
| Could this be listed as helpdesk experience on a resume? Posted: 05 Jun 2021 08:12 AM PDT In a prior position, I worked a customer service job and handled issues with people's magazine subscriptions. Eventually I got trained in what the company called, "digital" and used Drupal as an administrator to walk people through technical issues with the magazine's website over the phone. This mostly consisted of password resets, changing emails, and walking them through clearing cache and cookies. This was only a portion of my entire job but I did it for probably about a year. Would employers consider this "official" helpdesk experience? [link] [comments]  |
| Anyone here who went from a help desk job to a more lucrative career outside of IT? Posted: 05 Jun 2021 10:26 AM PDT Anyone who changed careers from IT help desk to something totally different. I need to know what you did. How you did it. I'm trying to get into Biotech or PUblic Health. i have my science degree but most companies just see me as a help desk person. So for me I'm the first point of contact for just about everything. So I used that on my resume. Things like compliance and reviewing documentation. Who here went from help desk to something totally non IT related? I"m not talking about a grocery store job or working at Mcdonalds. I mean a real career (Attorney, Scientist, Teacher) [link] [comments]  |
| Wanting to learn about blockchain networks, stake pools, nodes Posted: 05 Jun 2021 07:06 AM PDT Hey, y'all, I currently have a CCNA and military training that equates to help desk 2 or 3, but I have recently come to the realization that blockchain networks are likely to be very prominent in business in the next decade. Because of this, I'd like to get ahead of the competition and begin to learn what I can. I bought Odom and studied at home to get my CCNA, and I was hoping to do something similar for blockchain. Honestly, I don't even know where a network engineer/administrator would land in a blockchain network. Would it even be different to run a node or stake pool vs. maintaining a commercial network? What resources would y'all recommend to begin learning without enrolling in a university? Any input is appreciated, thank y'all! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 05 Jun 2021 06:49 AM PDT I appreciate your time and feedback regarding my question. Sorry for the long post. Quick story, moved to a new town 5 years ago, looked for IT Jobs and was interviewed by this company X. Got an offer, pretty good overall except that I do not think I negotiated a good salary - since it was my very first job at that unknown territory I accepted the first thing they offered (now 5 years later I feel I'm under paid based on glassdoor, indeed and other salary survey sites) I'm a System Administrator that does a bit of everything. The team I work is great, company is growing, I have the ability to learn, access to training, it has a great flexibility as far as working home and I rarely travel for work. Now a while back I was approached by this company Z, really well known Technology company located in the Bay Area looking for someone around where I live for a opportunity as field engineer. Would be on the road and travel quite a bit, would still work with some of the apps I work today, have better benefits and pay is significantly higher. I also worked for this company about 10 years ago in the same position for a short period of time and left because I got another offer as well. So that is a short but straight forward summary as to where I stand right now. And with that I have a few questions to extend my thought process in direction to my future decision. Married, on my 30s, financial situation is fine (what I make is not great but enough) and enjoy the company I work for but the offer is good money wise, also think it has good benefits as well as the opportunity to work around different customers and in a technology company. The way I feel about this is very conflicted and it almost seems like I'm putting a puzzle together but can not find the pieces. Seems simple but at the same time I really feel like moving and accepting the offer, I feel like I enjoy being comfortable where I'm. The same time I know that what I make is under the market, I'm not crazy for money since I live a pretty simple life, but would love to add that significant amount to my pay check. I'm very conflicted about leaving and experiencing something "new", more money and a ton of travel, versus staying where I'm. Hoping to hear/read your thoughts. Thank you [link] [comments]  |
| AWS Certification Question and woukd like feedback from people already in the industry! Posted: 05 Jun 2021 10:12 AM PDT Hello Everyone, so i was wondering if you guys can help me out. I am planning to take the Sysops Certification but was wondering if i should take the Solution Architect first? I heard there is a lit of overlap and was wondering if i can just skip the Solution Architect and go straight for the Sysops, what do you guys think. I did pass my Cloud Practitioner last year, Fyi! I would like to get into the Cloud Job field soon, taking some Linux classes and bash courses in August, part of my major and really think an associates would somewhat help! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Jun 2021 05:26 PM PDT I want to make my resume for attractive so I have been looking at security job posts online and saw that a lot of them want experience with SIEMs like Alienvault, Splunk, etc. I was wondering what was the best way to learn these technologies and to set up a home lab for them. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 05 Jun 2021 10:19 AM PDT So my only tech experience is working for my dad's company in telecom, where I mainly translated documents, made invoices with excel, maintained the "office" equipment (printers, laptops, pcs, etc.) and wrote emails to the contractors. I recently passed my 2nd interview for this really awesome job. I understood that I am going to work with SQL and Excel. I asked if they would like me to prepare or read about things, but they were really nice, and assured me that I will be trained for the first month. Still, I can't help but feel REALLY nervous. I told them that I will have to get my driving test a week after I start (and they were fine with that). I also need to move to a different place since my contract for my current student residence is about to expire. So I have like a thousand things to think about. What should I expect on my first day? It will be my first time working with so many customers, and I don't want to be caught out as an idiot who doesn't know anything and can't resolve an issue. [link] [comments]  |
| Help with what to do with career planning and next steps Posted: 04 Jun 2021 08:47 PM PDT Hello all I'm wondering if you guys would be able to help with what I should do with career planning. I have an associates as of right now for network design and administration and working on my bachelors in information technology. I have my CCNA, Security plus, a retired windows server cert that I got with my degree , and secret clearance. My experience work wise is working at my community college as a lab assistant who helped users with basic issues and did some basic hardware installs. Then 4 years as a data center hardware maintenance which was swapping hard drives, rack and stacking routers, switches,etc and running and replacing fiber and copper cables. I have a few months as a networks ops person but was put into help desk instead so didn't really get anywhere with that. Currently I'm at a job for the last 4 months doing face to face user support dealing with office 365, installing/troubleshooting pcs, and basic software issues it feel like an almost tier 1.5 support. I don't really like that position but don't know how to leverage myself into a better position because currently I'm make 25 an hour and don't know how to best move to a better paid or same paying position. TLDR: No idea how to leverage my experience into a better job and just looking for help. [link] [comments]  |
| Resumé- What to write in the Education Section as a Community College 'Dropout' Posted: 04 Jun 2021 09:01 PM PDT I attended a community college, off and on, for years. No degree. After weighing out unique circumstances especially with time, money, and age in mind, the most suitable and optimal scenario for me is to only aim for certifications and to quit pursuing school. I am in my mid 30s and have some college, but again, still no degree. I have several years of Sys Admin experience, and a few certs under my belt. As a person who is seeking his next career move, what would you guys suggest I add to the Education section? Should it even be added at all? I do not plan on pursuing school at all in the foreseeable future. [link] [comments]  |
| Specific info on the UK IT industry, entry, certs, and my situation. Posted: 05 Jun 2021 02:01 AM PDT Hi there, Sorry I'd like to apologise in advance if this post pops up quiet often. Im approaching 35 years of age, and after working for ten years in Education, i feel the need to change track and IT was the obvious option for me. A little background, for the past ten years I've been working in education as an English Language teacher at universities in Asia - China, Vietnam and Indonesia teaching mainly post grad students. I've always loved computers. My first computer was an Amiga 600, then a 386, etc.. basically I'm just interested in technology. In my spare time, i do weird stuff, like small personal projects - the latest being getting Linux up and running on an Indonesian cable TV STB - then repurposing it as a NAS box, running own cloud, installing pi-hole on there...pointless actually, but that's my idea of a 'good night in'. That's why i believe i am suited to IT as its something, i read about, play with, love to learn on my own time. Having that interest in computers for most of my life means I am ok with running Linux, setting up apache, configuring routers, using VM to test various operating systems, building computers from scratch etc...but I don't have any certification. This is just stuff that I've done, tinkered and learned over years and years as a hobby at home. I'll be returning to the UK in Jan 2021 as its time for my daughter to start school, and i don't have any interest in working in Education there. I'd really love to get an entry level, help desk / desktop support job, gain some experience, get my foot in the door and then continue to study and get certified on my own time and money whilst I'm working there. What certifications would you recommend i get in order to get my foot in the door? I'm really enthusiastic and just wanting to get going even though i won't be back in the UK till next year. I'll be relocating to the north of England if that helps. As far as education / certs goes, none of them are IT related - Degree in politics and social sciences, various teaching qualifications, BTEC graphic design and a few A levels. [link] [comments]  |
| Employment question regarding MTA 98-366 network fundamentals Posted: 04 Jun 2021 10:29 PM PDT Question for you professionals. I decided to take the 98-366 exam today as a way to gauge my knowledge before taking net+. I passed the exam fortunately, but was wondering if this cert is really recognized by employers. Thank you. [link] [comments]  |
| Junior Developer here. How can I overcome the struggles in the industry? Posted: 05 Jun 2021 04:22 AM PDT Hello guys, I have struggles in my first year as a junior Full Stack Developer. I am assigned on a project with a Senior Developer (i will call it X) who has very small allocation on this project with me (mainly tasks for him are on other project(s)). Some days are good, some days are bad. I make mistakes, I apologize, and always try learning from X. Most questions or problems are discussed in chat, rarely on a zoom/skype call. Since X has (I believe) little time, it takes my fix for a certain bug and review it, rewritting the parts where I haven't choose a good approach. After the review(verification) ends, X gives the fix back to me to test it, and ask if I have questions about the code. The problem is that always the tasks are new for me. I do a lot of research on my own, without many questions because X has no time. When I come to a solution, X questions me back, and say to me that he found a better solution, and thinks that I did not documenting myself (X wants me to search on internet, which I did, but learning alone is very hard). I am asking for advices. How can I document better? How can i come with better solutions? Do I want too much from me, knowing my position where I am? I know that I am a junior and I am supposed to make mistakes, but i feel ashamed. I asked X recently about how can I improve and about my performance, but I got no answers. Maybe X knows that I am learning, since doesn't want answers immediately and wants me to search before I bring a solution, but I am just assuming. What do you guys think? Thank you! [link] [comments]  |
| I look happy but deep down I think I just really want to code. Posted: 04 Jun 2021 04:34 PM PDT hi , So I've been working in IT mostly in the cloud/system engineering space for quite a while now, and its been more or less ..good. The money is good but not amazing , same can be said for general flexibility and job satisfaction. From a high level not many complaints. However from the outside looking in ,I sometimes feel like the amazing portions of what a mentioned previously are reserved for those in software/webdev. I should mention I don't have much insight into what its actually like to be a software engineers or web/software developer. The only thing I know is that they are able to actually create something and see the fruits of their creation and even get to show it off like in r/webdev. While work on my side of the fence rarely yield tangible results, if its good no one complains and feed back only comes when there is a problem. Infrastructure work is very thanks-less and sometimes unfulfilling. Now before you guys destroy my possibly naïve opinion, Id like to say that I understand there are peaks and troughs in every career field. I'm just saying from the things I've read , the few experienced developers I've spoken to and the results I've seen from fresher developers and "computer scientist "in the US, it seems there are more peaks than any thing. I've spoken to full stack developers straight out of college with starting salaries that compare to Senior level network architects. Now even if we look past the financials , it seems like the flexibility in the dev field is through the roof. I have dev friends that work multiple projects amassing multiple salaries at times and still have time on there hands somehow. This is all sounds great, but the thing that really attracts me is that it seems that they get a chance to create something , and have actual portfolios to testament their skillset. I'm not sure what other field in Technology gets that ,but surely not us Infrastructure guys. Feel free to enlighten me..or change my mind. [link] [comments]  |
| Furious with CompTIA/PearsonVUE: Security+ exam had bugged questions and proctors could not help Posted: 04 Jun 2021 03:31 PM PDT So I just finished up with my SY0-501 but I had a nightmarish experience. First 6 questions were simulator questions. No biggie, except 2 of the questions were bugged and literally didn't work. For both questions, I couldn't drag and drop ANYTHING. In addition, all of the icons were question marks. So obviously that means the questions are bugged. I ended up speaking to 5 different proctors who all told me to either restart the exam or close the exam software and restart it. Of course it doesn't work, so I just march on with the test. I'm up to question 67 of 80 and decide to reach out to a proctor one more time and straight up told him I've been told to restart the exam multiple times and he hits me with a "have you tried restarting the computer?" Before I restart my computer, I ask what else we could try if that doesn't work. He says he can revoke my exam and get help through the customer support hotline. I asked if I would have to pay for a re-take and again he deferred me to the hotline. Fuck. That. I was fortunate enough to find someone selling an exam voucher for cheap, no way am I dropping almost $400 on a re-take for a test I didn't even fail. So I say fuck it and just finish the test with the two unfinished questions. Thank god I passed with a 756. If I had gotten a 749...well, I don't want to think about that. My message to Pearson: get better proctors who actually know what they're doing My message to CompTIA: your questions are bad and you should feel bad [link] [comments]  |
| Breaking into IT Business Analyst roles as a graduate Posted: 04 Jun 2021 03:56 PM PDT I am about to graduate with an Information Systems degree. I am interested in IT Business Analyst type roles. I tried to get an internship last summer in some sort of analyst field but was unsuccessful. Without work experience, what would be some suggestions, potential skills and advice to start to pursue this type of career from ground zero? [link] [comments]  |
| Which cert should i go for first A+ or security+?? Posted: 04 Jun 2021 08:44 PM PDT I've been working at a help desk job for about 5 months now and I figure I should go ahead and get a new cert. all i have atm is the MTA for os fundamentals have no degree either any advice? [link] [comments]  |
| Looking for part-time work in NOVA. Any recommendations? Posted: 04 Jun 2021 08:16 PM PDT Well, just like the title says, I am looking for part time work. I currently reside in the Northern Virginia area. I consider myself as mid level and have experience with Help Desk, T1/T2 sys admin, and I have been working on the security side of the house for the last five years or so. Does anyone have any resources for part time or full time (only shift work) IT gigs? I can find full time positions extremely easily but nothing I can squeeze into my schedule. I usually use Indeed and ClearanceJobs. Monster is a nightmare these days and never had luck on Glassdoor's/LinkedIn (haven't used them in years) [link] [comments]  |
| Another career changer here.. looking for networking advice Posted: 04 Jun 2021 05:53 PM PDT I am a former welder currently working as a home security installer, im looking to jump into IT with the goal of going to pen testing but im also open to other career paths in IT, kinda gonna see how my skills progress and what opportunities present themselves. BUT being that im outside of the industry where do I go to meet and talk to and network with IT pros that I could learn from or make potential career connections. Im doing self study on the comptia certifications and looking to make my move to IT ASAP. [link] [comments]  |
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