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>Job Title
>Years of Experience
>Degrees/Certs
>How did you find/get job
>Pay
>Location

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>>Job Title
Network Admin
>>Years of Experience
4
>>Degrees/Certs
A+, Net+, Sec+, CCNA R&S
>>How did you find/get job
Employer website
>>Pay
131k (101k tax-free)
>>Location
Bagram, AF

>working on shit, non-programming
>30 years old
>want to start coding because I'm tired of my shitty life and I want a real job
>learning C# with Visual Studio right now

What are my chances, guys? Btw, not a total noob because I took hardcore logic courses at school, and one CS class where we studied C++ and data structures etc. How long til I can get a job?

how long did it take after you got you CCNA R&S?

if you had to do it all over again, what would you do?

>Job Title
Unemployed, but have a couple interviews coming up.

>Years of Experience
0 in IT

>Degrees/Certs
MTA Networking, CCNA R&S

>Location
Shitlib, OR

Working on CCNA Security now. Anyone know if you can complete the entire curriculum with just Packet Tracer 7?

>IT Support Specialist Level 1
>No prior experience
>No Certs or degree, only classroom and self taught experience
>Job is at a casino, applied for a transfer from food and beverage and charismatically made my way into the department
>35k/year
>Somewhere in Las Vegas

Job is half help desk half on the floor ground work. AMA.

I'm interested in the CCNA Cyber Security cert. Anyone have experience with it?

>Job Title

TLA (google it) it pleb
>>Years of Experience
3

>>Degrees/Certs
None, working on CCNA

>>How did you find/get job
luck

>>Pay
crap (hourly)

>>Location
Canada

>No degree
>No experience
No job.

I'm currently 18 and working towards Oracle Java Certification because I'm targeting to work at high level enterprise systems. No experience and still in high school too. Studying telecommunications networks.

What is helpdesk like? Do you need to be on the phone with people while you help them? Also, do you remote into their desktops, or you instruct them on how to fix it themselves?

What made your transition charismatic?

What is "floor ground work"?

Is it my autism keeping me from getting a job, or do employers not want to hire a CCNA with no experience?

obvious BS

>>Job Title
Web Developer / Radio programmer (Motorola Solutions)

>>Years of Experience
5 Years

>>Degrees/Certs
None working on A+, Netowork +, and Security.

>>How did you find/get job
Family has been in the business a long time

>>Pay
20 hr

>>Location
FL

so how do I go about getting my first job? Let's say I learn to program in 6 months, how hard would it be to get an entry job and then move up?

elaborate.

>makes 131k/year with no degree
>probably has wimmin bouncing on his huge cock all day
>would you do it again

lol

I have no idea dude. I dont have a programming job either.

yea, that was a stupid as fuck question.

Other helpdesk user here, no floor work

>What is helpdesk like?
Its nice when shit does not break and we get swamped with calls
I like it

>Do you need to be on the phone with people while you help them?
Depends, but often yes
Unless you are just answering tickets/email
But if they call in you need to be on the phone with them and get it fixed

> Also, do you remote into their desktops, or you instruct them on how to fix it themselves?
Mix of boh
We use Teamviewer and SCCM to remote
RDP if above does not work

The helpdesk part is alright. Mostly just unlocking locked out accounts on Active Directory or AS400 systems.
Occasionally yea I would need to remote into other PCs to see a visual problem or error to determine a solution or physically go out and check the problem.

"on the floor" meaning doing more non-helpdesk tasks on the casino floor or office spaces. We do deployments of machines ourselves and sometimes work in conjunction with Engineering such as replacing table game touch PCs and needing engineering to make the holes and adjust panels to install mountings and cable management stuff so it looks pretty.

And when I meant when I made my way into the department charismatically was that I made a good impression with the bosses and staff and my determination to work during this uncertain period (Gaming Industry is kind of shit even in Vegas) landed me the job despite having no degrees or past experience.

I only really have messed up once and that was more of a proactive customer service response i should've handled rather than a lacking of technical ability.

>Got scouted by Google
>Now the Google interview process
>Just got the offer letter from Amazon today
>I am 21 years old and will have a job and a six figure salary on graduation in May

All for my waifu.
Do it for her lads.

(((Google)))
(((Amazon)))

Enjoy working for globalists that will suck your guts out Winston.

>at least you have decent taste in waifus

>Customer Support Engineer
>22
>CCNP, CCNP W, RHCSA
>An internship that paid below minimum wage..
>$78,000
>Raleigh, NC

>Junior Web Developer
>0
>0
>Headhunted by pure luck
>£20000
>North England.

That's dope. What was your path like?

>No degree
>No experience
Learn Python+Javascript instead bub.

why those two in particular?

System Administration Intern (1.5 years) to Network Engineer (2 years) to Customer Support Engineer (1 year).

Will probably be jumping ship for a Sysadmin position at a University in the area for $100k a year but I will have to sacrifice the freedom of working whenever and wherever I want.

what course of action would you recommend for a person with no certs, no degree, no experience?

Prove you can do it by having contributed to open source. Have a github account that's made useful contributions to other people's work.

Teaching yourself from nothing and being able to work with a team on code you didn't write is super attractive to prospective employers.

I've been out in the 'Stan a long while,but I got my Sec+ and A+ and got a helpdesk job here..then worked on my Net+ and then eventually got my CCNA R&S.. my circumstances are different since I was already overseas..

I mean..I'd do what I did because I make way more than most even though I live in a shit area. I just got my Sec+ and A+ and applied for overseas jobs for helpdesk. Maybe get 1-2 years experience in the states and then try to get a job over here if that's what you wanna do. Honestly, lots of people out here are borderline incompetent. They need warm bodies, not necessarily superior technical knowledge, so just apply after you get a Sec+ and A+ if you're interested and they have openings.

You've obviously never worked in for a defense contractor in a warzone. Helpdesk out here makes 80-100k a year.

Afghanistan has no wimmin that you'd wanna bang. But definitely do it over again. I save a lot of money here.

He's never worked as a contractor overseas or been in the military, so he really doesn't know what I do.

Web dev is huge in Python at the moment, and motivated competent Python programmers are hard to come by. Especially ones that are comfortable moving between Python, js, maybe some bash, etc.

The way I hear it, "Python programmers" exhibit a lot less of the tribalism that "PHP programmers" and ".NET programmers" et al do.

Work a shit entry level IT helpdesk job to get something on your resume. Use this time to study and go out and get certifications that actually fucking matter (Cisco, Redhat, Vmware, etc). After getting one useful cert, leave for another job that pays better. Try to find one at a company that does tuition reimbursement even if the pay is shit. Use said tuition reimbursement to get an Associates Degree and leverage the experience gained to get a big boy job with design work, enterprise infrastructure management, break fix in a critical environment (Banks and etc).

Milk this system for what it's worth until we're all replaced with a bunch of H1B retards. Then use the credit hours you've banked at a college to start on your next career.

10 CVs per day, every day except Sunday. You'll get noticed.

>until we're all replaced with a bunch of H1B retards
Sad. Especially knowing that India has the highest rate of cheating on certification exams and the average Pajeet is a Win-pleb

Probably a little of both. Keep applying. People will hire you for an entry position with a ccna.

This is correct. Apply like crazy even if you think you don't quality (within reason ofc). Use Indeed and LinkedIN. Go to websites of big companies in your area as well,

what kind of job can you get with a degree in Information Systems and with Net+, but with no experience?

>Especially knowing that India has the highest rate of cheating on certification exam


Oh you don't even know. Most of the ones that make it here use recruiting agencies that essentially create fake resumes for them despite not knowing jackshit and middle management eats it all up because they half the cost of IT employment overhead.

They're all going to be fucked when the infrastructure ages or the company needs to scale and discover that Pajeet doesn't actually know anything.

I won't care though. By the time IT become a festering H1B hellhole I'll be in a different industry.

Have a portfolio with some personal projects to show to the interviewer, they ALWAYS ask for this, I didn't have any (cause I'm a lazy fuck) but I had a technical degree to compensate, which is not your case.

As for the language to learn, the shittiest languajes are the easiest to get a job for in entry level, therefore: Python or PHP, maybe even Java.

It's easier to get into web development first.

At 30 its harder but not impossible.

Is computer networking a good degree?

Jesus Christ,

I really need to do a pastebin for this of FAQs.

Many of these questions have been answered several times.

FUCK DAILY OS WARS THREADS AND SPEECY THREADS WE NEED MORE THREADS LIKE THIS ONE, THANK YOU BASED OP

So if I get a cert for C++ where can I find work?
Would I also benefit from getting a .NET cert?
I'm also learning python but I dunno why I'm mentioning it

>certificate for programming
Never heard this before. Just program shit and progressively build a portfolio.

Who the fuck do you show it to and what do you put into it?

Would getting a 2-year IT degree along with maybe a couple certs along the way be a good idea?

I'm not worried about the quality of the degree, but do employers care about an IT degree at all? My end-goal is security stuff.

IT Consultant for a state agency

3 years experience

No certs or degrees

Got foot in the door with a large grocery store chain as the local IT liaison for 2 years, acquired enough experience to apply for current state/gov job.

$40k year

S. Carolina

The job is great and I'm learning a lot, they are paying for certifications and other forms of education. Mostly SANS training for security certs.
State benefits are nice.

Yes

That's a good start. People need to understand that most certs especially in the beginning just get your foot in the door.. It's all about experience, experience, experience.

>Job Title
Field Technican
>Years of Experience
less than a year
>Degrees/Certs
A+, Net+, Working on CCNA
>How did you find/get job
Friend refered me to a tech firm
>Pay
Contract based so it varies. $12-16
>Location
Houston TX

Any guides on certs?

I am aware of some of them, but not others. Is there a hierarchy of value, importance, and difficulty?

someone told me about joining IEEE
does anyone have experience with this or joining some sort of organization? is there a fee?

do they pay for anything when you are part of the organization like study materials or certs?

>no experience
for any field ever, you are not going to find a job

you need to speak to whomever your advisor is and work hard to get an internship.

CompTIA for basics (and A+ for the basic basics), vendors (like Cisco or Red Hat) for specialization.

ieee.org/membership_services/membership/join/join_dues.html

A+ to get your first job. from there, it depends on what technology you want to specialize in and what you want to do.

>depends what you want to do
I think it has more to do with how many jobs are available. Getting a certificate for a position that barely has any employers is a huge waste of time

You don't get a certificate for a position. A certificate is a validation that your knowledge is at least up to a certain point. However you sell this to an employer is up to you.

>what you want to do
If you want to do servers, you can go with Red Hat certs of MS certs.
Networking? Go with Cisco.
Sys Admin? MS and Linux have certs for that.

>location
*Bagram as fuck*

Do you have a 4 year degree? If so, you stand a chance. Build your portfolio or do a coding school, but do your research first before you pay.

How viable are coding schools? They seem like a waste of time.

Anything can be good if you dedicate yourself. Some of the coding schools guarantee jobs etc. If you already have a four-year degree (in any subject), a coding school can be a reasonable thing to get your coding career started.

four-year degrees aren't a huge deal unless you want to work for the government, or be in some management position. Most employers would rather you have experience and, for software dev, have a portfolio of projects that you can show them (a github or something).

Do you have any experience in these schools?

Do you guys find your work challenging or are you essentially on autopilot mode throughout the day?

Sure experience is king, but user has no experience...

My current employer will no longer hire anyone who doesn't have a four-year degree.

Can someone explain to me why post secondary isn't funded by the government? How are people supposed to be able to afford it without being crippled by debt for a decade? Some European countries have it free and there's no reason Canada or US can't.

>Some European countries have it free
Look at this list and tell me where you see any of these "free" universities in the top 10. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_Ranking_of_World_Universities#Global_rankings

Government-funded K-12 in US is such a shit show they may be afraid of ruining university too...

This. Gov k-12 is a hugfest where we don't learn maths anymore. We just learn to accept fags and niggers into society. There are literally history classes in High School where they learn how trannies helped in founding America.

Math and language is literally all you need.

What do you guys think about PCPro?

who's your employer?