The Official IT Thread

[leftcoastkev]

Damn they put your picture on that shit now? Lol. I ain't took a cert test in damn near 10 years...

 

[King Erauno]

lol yeah they take a picture whenever you check in to take the exam

 

[onthafly]

Almost feel like I've been in this thread before. Anybody here worth with linux or a devops environment?

 

[onthafly]

I hate help desk already

You got your foot in the door with that helpdesk job. Now it's only a matter of how long it takes you to get out. No shame in only staying 6 months to a year if there's no real chance of growth.

 

[onthafly]

how saturated is the market ? is this guy full of shit? can someone expect to get a job that isnt in the help desk with a ccna and work your way up? im referring to south florida

[youtube]jKxXCzKYO6o[/youtube]

Can't speak for south FL but I'm in central FL(Tampa). I've been on the linux administration side of things so it could be different for other parts of IT but most jobs I've been contacted about there always seems to be a lack of qualified candidates. That's allowed me to get decent jobs with much less than the required amount of experience.

 

[Jabu_Rule]

how saturated is the market ? is this guy full of shit? can someone expect to get a job that isnt in the help desk with a ccna and work your way up? im referring to south florida

[youtube]jKxXCzKYO6o[/youtube]

Can't speak for south FL but I'm in central FL(Tampa). I've been on the linux administration side of things so it could be different for other parts of IT but most jobs I've been contacted about there always seems to be a lack of qualified candidates. That's allowed me to get decent jobs with much less than the required amount of experience.

If you are good with CMD\Powershell, would that put you in a comfortable area to learn Linux? I've played with it a bit, but i haven't done too much past installing Ubuntu.. How deep do you get with Linux? I was going to set up a test web server at one point but i already had it working well on Windows so i never got around to it.

 

[EmM HoLLa.]

Got about 3 weeks left and I'll have my MBA.. Start a new gig on Monday as a Manager of Data, Analytics, & Reporting.. Had my toes down for 10 years and they finally let my black get a management role. Next is Director, after that VP.. Keep pushing my guys..

Life is good and God is great...

 

[Bcotton5]

Got about 3 weeks left and I'll have my MBA.. Start a new gig on Monday as a Manager of Data, Analytics, & Reporting.. Had my toes down for 10 years and they finally let my black get a management role. Next is Director, after that VP.. Keep pushing my guys..

Life is good and God is great...

I see you

 

[King Erauno]

Got about 3 weeks left and I'll have my MBA.. Start a new gig on Monday as a Manager of Data, Analytics, & Reporting.. Had my toes down for 10 years and they finally let my black get a management role. Next is Director, after that VP.. Keep pushing my guys..

Life is good and God is great...

Good shit! congrats fam

 

[King_sorrow]

just signed up to get my associates in computer programming, then B.S computer science.

In about 4 years bar comp sci getting saturated or the world ending

Im going to be the shit.

 

[onthafly]

how saturated is the market ? is this guy full of shit? can someone expect to get a job that isnt in the help desk with a ccna and work your way up? im referring to south florida

[youtube]jKxXCzKYO6o[/youtube]

Can't speak for south FL but I'm in central FL(Tampa). I've been on the linux administration side of things so it could be different for other parts of IT but most jobs I've been contacted about there always seems to be a lack of qualified candidates. That's allowed me to get decent jobs with much less than the required amount of experience.

If you are good with CMD\Powershell, would that put you in a comfortable area to learn Linux?

Man to be honest I've been avoiding anything microsoft like the plague ever since I started working with linux so I don't know much about powershell. I do know they tried to put some linux commands in their to make linux guys feel more comfortable with powershell but nobody is fallin for that shit. If you're in a position to use powershell at work then I'd say go with it just because it's an opportunity but linux is completely different. The way It was put to me by a windows administrator is that it's a lot easier to transition from being a linux admin to being a windows admin than the other way around because linux forces you to learn how to do everything the right way.

how saturated is the market ? is this guy full of shit? can someone expect to get a job that isnt in the help desk with a ccna and work your way up? im referring to south florida

[youtube]jKxXCzKYO6o[/youtube]

Can't speak for south FL but I'm in central FL(Tampa). I've been on the linux administration side of things so it could be different for other parts of IT but most jobs I've been contacted about there always seems to be a lack of qualified candidates. That's allowed me to get decent jobs with much less than the required amount of experience.

I've played with it a bit, but i haven't done too much past installing Ubuntu.. How deep do you get with Linux? I was going to set up a test web server at one point but i already had it working well on Windows so i never got around to it.

Personally I probably know more about linux then a lot of people with more experience then me because I've been living and breathing that shit for the past 3-4 years. From a systems administrators perspective, you need to know how to do everything from the command line since servers don't usually have a desktop environment.
http://www.techexams.net/forums/linux/7490-technotes-linux.html
http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/#.VTFh2MuVvZs

Those are the resources I started off learning from. Once you get more comfortable with the command line, I'd recommend installing arch linux, gentoo and linux from scratch to get a better understanding of how the operating system works.

 

[Bcotton5]

just signed up to get my associates in computer programming, then B.S computer science.

In about 4 years bar comp sci getting saturated or the world ending

Im going to be the shit.

I thought you already had one? I might take the 3rd CCNA class this summer at Oakland Community its only 8 weeks long

 

[EmM HoLLa.]

Got about 3 weeks left and I'll have my MBA.. Start a new gig on Monday as a Manager of Data, Analytics, & Reporting.. Had my toes down for 10 years and they finally let my black get a management role. Next is Director, after that VP.. Keep pushing my guys..

Life is good and God is great...

I see you

Got about 3 weeks left and I'll have my MBA.. Start a new gig on Monday as a Manager of Data, Analytics, & Reporting.. Had my toes down for 10 years and they finally let my black get a management role. Next is Director, after that VP.. Keep pushing my guys..

Life is good and God is great...

Good shit! congrats fam

I appreciate it my bro's!

 

[bununs alias]

school me on equipment for making my own lab for ccna practice, i was reading techexams.net and they pretty much suggested getting 3 1841s and 3 2960 or 2950 switches, i checked ebay and isnt sure whats quality and what isnt.

all 1841s/2960s/2950s on ebay are the same ? i seen one 2960 for 50, and another for 260.

 

[Bcotton5]

school me on equipment for making my own lab for ccna practice, i was reading techexams.net and they pretty much suggested getting 3 1841s and 3 2960 or 2950 switches, i checked ebay and isnt sure whats quality and what isnt.

all 1841s/2960s/2950s on ebay are the same ? i seen one 2960 for 50, and another for 260.

yea 3 routers and 3 switches are pretty much what youre gonna need

, maybe a 1941 and 2 1841s because the 1841s only have 2 ethernet ports

maybe a layer 3 switch

 

[Thereal_ba]

A month in and i already hate this.

 

[traestar]

A month in and i already hate this.

I am trying to keep hush about it but I will never do help desk/technical support again. The worse position I've ever took in my life...real serious right now.

 

[Bcotton5]

A month in and i already hate this.

I am trying to keep hush about it but I will never do help desk/technical support again. The worse position I've ever took in my life...real serious right now.

A month in and i already hate this.

whats so bad about it? Im dreading having to do this shit. Hope I can get some other type of entry level position

 

[Thereal_ba]

A month in and i already hate this.

I am trying to keep hush about it but I will never do help desk/technical support again. The worse position I've ever took in my life...real serious right now.

A month in and i already hate this.

whats so bad about it? Im dreading having to do this shit. Hope I can get some other type of entry level position

Hopefully you land a position in a noc, ill update my gripes later

 

[Bcotton5]

A month in and i already hate this.

I am trying to keep hush about it but I will never do help desk/technical support again. The worse position I've ever took in my life...real serious right now.

A month in and i already hate this.

whats so bad about it? Im dreading having to do this shit. Hope I can get some other type of entry level position

Hopefully you land a position in a noc, ill update my gripes later

noc?