The Official IT Thread

[Qiv_Owan]

Does anyone have any advice about staying focused, and maintaining your studies?

I guess I just have the flaw of lacking self discipline.

Give Incentives, reward yourself from time to time and make sure u stay ahead

Whether its food, a blunt, pussy, a day off, a drink or whatever

Just a few hours to get away and after that tho u gotta get back to it

Always remember u aint missing out on nothing when u getting ur shit together

 

[King Erauno]

Does anyone have any advice about staying focused, and maintaining your studies?

I guess I just have the flaw of lacking self discipline.

Give Incentives, reward yourself from time to time and make sure u stay ahead

Whether its food, a blunt, pussy, a day off, a drink or whatever

Just a few hours to get away and after that tho u gotta get back to it

Always remember u aint missing out on nothing when u getting ur shit together

THIS

 

[Ghostdenithegawd]

IDK if any of you niggas live in NY but MTA is having a open house go to career builder and search MTA send your resume then they will email you saying that they will review your resume to see if you qualify for the open house or not I got accepted already

 

[caddo man]

Yo I just had a interview and I really feel like I bombed it on the technical questions. I found out about the interview while I was in Vegas so there was no real time to study up on the fly.

Now I am motivated to dig in deep. I am hoping that I impressed them with my motivation and drive rather than my ability to recall the network info.

Some stuff they asked me.

VMware

Ip subnet and calculations

dude actually dropped a IP address on me. I had to come up with the amount of host.

UNIX

active directory.

VLANs and trunking

Shit was nerve racking but I know to get back in those books.

 

[konceptjones]

Been through mad family tragedy this in 16 going into 17 and I had a cushy job doing asset management at a hospital, I'm not super pressed to find a job I have been getting offers to jobs without even applying but I need to step my IT game back up I've been slacking heavily due to stress I got my A+N+

I need to go retake my CCNA I failed that because I didn't save my sim almost a year since it happens or a year I need to start studying again other than the main certs where do I get info about stuff like like

solar winds

Hardware software licensing

I got a call from a recruiter in SC asking me about doing it asset management but I didn't know much about hardware software licensing

These little things are holding me back from making real money

Solarwinds products can usually be downloaded on a trial basis. If I were you, I'd take a couple hundred dollars and grab an HP DL360 G5 or G6 or if you want to go big a DL380 G5 or G6, load it up with drives and at least 32GB of memory and drop Xen Server on it to stand up a virtual lab at the crib. That way you can put together an environment to learn whatever you need.

 

[Sorrow_god]

Just wanna give a quick update, Started doing IT 3 years ago and dove headfirst into it. started making 25k 1st year 35 2nd year got my CCNP and now Im making 60k this year after changing jobs again.

Don't be scared to learn new technologies as it will only help you in the long run. Keep hustling yall. This is King_sorrow by the way.

 

[konceptjones]

Just wanna give a quick update, Started doing IT 3 years ago and dove headfirst into it. started making 25k 1st year 35 2nd year got my CCNP and now Im making 60k this year after changing jobs again.

Don't be scared to learn new technologies as it will only help you in the long run. Keep hustling yall. This is King_sorrow by the way.

Fam... who you tellin. I started out on a helpdesk at $33K/yr. By my 3rd year I was clockin $32/hr even though I took time off to try my hand as a loan officer for 8 months. In just that short amount of time I picked up Solaris 8, AS/400, System V Unix, Linux, and got sharper with my Windows skills.

Just under two years later, with another 8 month interruption in the mortgage biz (this time as a subprime/alt-A account executive), I was knockin down $41/hr thanks to those skills plus more (Websphere deployments, Solaris 9, RHEL 2.1-3, AIX 5 and 5.3, HP-UX 10 and 11, IRIX 5.3 and 6.x)

Outside of high risk trading, I can't think of another career path where you can make leaps in salary like that in such a short amount of time.

 

[Bcotton5]

forgot to post in here but I passed CCNP Switch a couple days ago

 

[Sorrow_god]

forgot to post in here but I passed CCNP Switch a couple days ago

Lets get it B!!!

 

[Bcotton5]

yup Route about to get that work next

 

[Qiv_Owan]

Any nuggets on Solaris?

 

[King Erauno]

Just wanna give a quick update, Started doing IT 3 years ago and dove headfirst into it. started making 25k 1st year 35 2nd year got my CCNP and now Im making 60k this year after changing jobs again.

Don't be scared to learn new technologies as it will only help you in the long run. Keep hustling yall. This is King_sorrow by the way.

Just wanna give a quick update, Started doing IT 3 years ago and dove headfirst into it. started making 25k 1st year 35 2nd year got my CCNP and now Im making 60k this year after changing jobs again.

Don't be scared to learn new technologies as it will only help you in the long run. Keep hustling yall. This is King_sorrow by the way.

Fam... who you tellin. I started out on a helpdesk at $33K/yr. By my 3rd year I was clockin $32/hr even though I took time off to try my hand as a loan officer for 8 months. In just that short amount of time I picked up Solaris 8, AS/400, System V Unix, Linux, and got sharper with my Windows skills.

Just under two years later, with another 8 month interruption in the mortgage biz (this time as a subprime/alt-A account executive), I was knockin down $41/hr thanks to those skills plus more (Websphere deployments, Solaris 9, RHEL 2.1-3, AIX 5 and 5.3, HP-UX 10 and 11, IRIX 5.3 and 6.x)

Outside of high risk trading, I can't think of another career path where you can make leaps in salary like that in such a short amount of time.

good shit fellas!!!!!!!.

i started helpdesk in school $9/hr

went to geek squad $12/hr

went to tier 3 at time warner $30k/year

went to another company and got $48/yr

just off of helpdesk alone. then i jumped into my ccna and then ccnp security...

got a job in atl at 70k/yr

after 2 years i got bored and wanted more money... left for a company making 95/yr. i was there for 4 months then my old job wanted me back.. they matched the 95k/year

then i got my PCSNE6

i ditched them after another year for my current job at 130/yr. once i learn this NSX shit im going to ask for 160/yr

wanted to add on to this thread. not trying to boast by any means, just goes to show you. keep hustling and keep looking for new opportunities. who cares if you're at a job for 6 months. get what you can and get out.

went from 30k to 130+ in 5 years. it can be done

 

[konceptjones]

Just wanna give a quick update, Started doing IT 3 years ago and dove headfirst into it. started making 25k 1st year 35 2nd year got my CCNP and now Im making 60k this year after changing jobs again.

Don't be scared to learn new technologies as it will only help you in the long run. Keep hustling yall. This is King_sorrow by the way.

Just wanna give a quick update, Started doing IT 3 years ago and dove headfirst into it. started making 25k 1st year 35 2nd year got my CCNP and now Im making 60k this year after changing jobs again.

Don't be scared to learn new technologies as it will only help you in the long run. Keep hustling yall. This is King_sorrow by the way.

Fam... who you tellin. I started out on a helpdesk at $33K/yr. By my 3rd year I was clockin $32/hr even though I took time off to try my hand as a loan officer for 8 months. In just that short amount of time I picked up Solaris 8, AS/400, System V Unix, Linux, and got sharper with my Windows skills.

Just under two years later, with another 8 month interruption in the mortgage biz (this time as a subprime/alt-A account executive), I was knockin down $41/hr thanks to those skills plus more (Websphere deployments, Solaris 9, RHEL 2.1-3, AIX 5 and 5.3, HP-UX 10 and 11, IRIX 5.3 and 6.x)

Outside of high risk trading, I can't think of another career path where you can make leaps in salary like that in such a short amount of time.

good shit fellas!!!!!!!.

i started helpdesk in school $9/hr

went to geek squad $12/hr

went to tier 3 at time warner $30k/year

went to another company and got $48/yr

just off of helpdesk alone. then i jumped into my ccna and then ccnp security...

got a job in atl at 70k/yr

after 2 years i got bored and wanted more money... left for a company making 95/yr. i was there for 4 months then my old job wanted me back.. they matched the 95k/year

then i got my PCSNE6

i ditched them after another year for my current job at 130/yr. once i learn this NSX shit im going to ask for 160/yr

wanted to add on to this thread. not trying to boast by any means, just goes to show you. keep hustling and keep looking for new opportunities. who cares if you're at a job for 6 months. get what you can and get out.

went from 30k to 130+ in 5 years. it can be done

Yeah, it's all about diversifying your skill set. You can't sit off doing JUST windows shit or JUST Linux/Unix or JUST networking. You gotta make yourself into a Jack of All Trades outchea. That's one of the reasons I always tell cats to just start buying hardware to keep your skills sharp. When I was working with Solaris a lot, I bought a couple of Sun machines to keep my skills up. I had a Sparcstation 20 I upgraded with a pair of Ross dual cpu modules and 256MB of RAM and then bought an Ultra 10 Creator3D with a 440MHz UltraSparc IIi, threw a gig of ram in it and Solaris 10.

I have a couple of Cisco 1720 routers and a couple of Catalyst 2950‑24 switches I picked up for cheap on ebay. I don't even think I've spent $120 on all of it (not including shipping) and, while it's not really enough to really study for a CCNA (and I REALLY need to replace the 1720's with at least 1760's or 1841's), it's enough to keep up the skills.

Invest a few hundred on some equipment and books and further your career. Jordans and weed can wait.

 

[traestar]

Still looking, been grinding with this substitute teaching job

 

[Bcotton5]

Damn CCNP Route is gonna be a beast

 

[traestar]

I'm going to look into Cyber Security alittle bit, my homie put me up on this
https://www.cybrary.it/

 

[Thereal_ba]

Damn CCNP Route is gonna be a beast

Im try to get mine done by the end of the year.

 

[konceptjones]

I'm going to look into Cyber Security alittle bit, my homie put me up on this
https://www.cybrary.it/

I think out of all the shit I do in IT, security is my favorite.

 

[traestar]

I'm going to look into Cyber Security alittle bit, my homie put me up on this
https://www.cybrary.it/

I think out of all the shit I do in IT, security is my favorite.

hmm interesting

 

[IceManKam]

Recently got my Bachelors in Comp Sci, hope to land a job soon. Will definitely add on to the thread