/cct/ - Career and Cert Thread General

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If you've got a tech career:

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

>Job Title
Network Admin
>Years of Experience
~5
>Degrees/Certs
A+, Net+, Sec+, CCNA R&S
>How did you find/get job
Employee Website
>Pay
131k
>Location
Bagram, Afghanistan

>Job Title
Network Cuck Tier 2
>Years of Experience
3 months
>Degrees/Certs
CCNA, passed 1 of 3 CCNP tests
>How did you find/get job
online
>Pay
75k
>Location
Near Washington DC

What are some good projects to show to employers if one wants to be come a sysadmin, particularly involving linux? I'm thinking of getting a cloud server for setting up a blog where I talk about learning linux and other technologies, and also my experiences with LUGs. What do you guys think?

Bump.

I had an interview for Comcast the other day. Does that count?

For what type of position? How'd the interview go?

>Job Title
Microsoft Shill
>Years of experience
10
>Degrees/Certs
Shill+ Pajeet+
>How did you find/get job
I'm Indian
>Pay
3 dollars a day
>Location
India

>Job Title
Network Engineer
>Years of experience
4
>Degrees/Certs
BS,AS, CCNA RS, CCNA Wireless, CCNA Sec, Net+. Sec+, tons of other programming certs
>How did you find/get job
I'm Indian
>Pay
60k
>Location
Nevada

Working on CCNP now. Im sure I can already quit and make more money, but ill wait until my CCNP is done to ensure max gains

I'm interested in computer maintenance & repair, and while I'm aware of CompTIA A+, I'm not sure where of where else to start or if it's even worth it. What other certs are worth looking into? I'm just looking for a "cozy" IT job and want to get away from retail.

>pc repair
so you want to make no money?

I've been interested but heard iffy things about it. I'll admit, it's been a while since I looked into it, so I don't know how much has changed.

Usually those type of jobs are used as gateways to get your foot in the door and get some experience.

Installation Tech or whatever. It seemed like it was good. They said I'd get end email in 7-10 days and day 10 was like yesterday and I haven't heard anything yet. Hopefully this week I get something or maybe I should call.

I work fast food, so it'd be quite the upgrade

>Job Title
IT Specialist
>Years of Experience
0
>Degrees/Certs
A+, working on CCNA and the rest of the common ones
>How did you find/get job
Nepotism, my father's co-workers nephew is the head IT guy
>Pay
37.5k
>Location
East Coast US

>Job Title
System Engineer
>Years of Experience
2
>Degrees/Certs
CCNP/CCDP
>How did you find/get job
Applied online
>Pay
150k
>Location
Tristate area, US

Ever work down in KAF.

Do you have any certs or degrees?

Not as a contractor. Went there while in the military though.

>Job Title
Security Analyst
>Years of Experience
2 1/2
>Degrees/Certs
ITIL
>How did you find/get job
Currente one:they called me. Previous: Applied online
>Pay
20k
>Location
Lima, Perú

What's the quickest path to being a linux admin?

>Job Title
Support Technician
>Years of Experience
.5
>Degrees/Certs
none
>How did you find/get job
I know the CFO of the company. He let me get this internship that turned into a salaried position a couple weeks ago.
>Pay
21k a year, basically minimum wage where I live
>Location
Southern California

First tech job, coming from a McDonalds.
I'm shit at school, taught myself most of my tech knowledge.

No idea what to work for, thinking certifications? Dunno where to start.

Horrifyingly underpaid...

Vendor neutral certs and gov jobs

No, unfortunately.