IT Certifications and Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

[acri1]

IT is $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Health is $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Every company needs IT

IT can be outsourced/contracted though, especially lower level/entry IT jobs. Plus managers can just cut IT jobs and dump the work on whoever is left. Health is waaaaay more stable and not as dependent on the economy.

http://www.certmag.com/read.php?in=5508

Four in 10 CIOs say their IT dept is understaffed...when the economy sucks, IT workers tend to be the first to get the boot. Right now you have a lot of IT companies laying people off and just using contractors, or using contractors as opposed to hiring people.

 

[AgentGrey]

IT can be outsourced/contracted though, especially lower level/entry IT jobs. Plus managers can just cut IT jobs and dump the work on whoever is left. Health is waaaaay more stable and not as dependent on the economy.

Four in 10 CIOs Surveyed Say Their IT Departments Are Understaffed - Certification Magazine

Four in 10 CIOs say their IT dept is understaffed...when the economy sucks, IT workers tend to be the first to get the boot. Right now you have a lot of IT companies laying people off and just using contractors, or using contractors as opposed to hiring people.

this outsourcing shyt is a serious threat, got me
guess i better flip some dummy bricks

 

[JT-Money]

The only IT jobs that are semi-stable are state or Federal IT jobs. But most don't pay squat but you won't have the constant threat of layoffs or outsourcing.

 

[Data-Hawk]

Good thing for the Mobile development field......For us developers

Also companies are starting to take security more serious( so they say ), so thats another field thats growing.

 

[No Homo]

Good thing for the Mobile development field......For us developers

Also companies are starting to take security more serious( so they say ), so thats another field thats growing.

Security and wireless are where its at for the future..thats the route im going in.

Cisco’s Visual Networking Index (VNI) has projected that wireless data traffic in North America will grow 20 times from 2010 to 2015, on top of the already extraordinary growth we’ve experienced. Combining Cisco’s projections for the last two years, wireless data traffic in 2015 is expected to be 56 times the volume of traffic in 2009.

 

[No Homo]

If I had to do it over...I would do Pharmacy

i started out as a pharmacy major..i get sick everytime i think about how much i slacked off with it and shouldve stuck with it

 

[Silver Surfer]

i started out as a pharmacy major..i get sick everytime i think about how much i slacked off with it and shouldve stuck with it

For real bruh...My first years of college I had no real motivation...Im out now and make a decent living with alot of potential for growth being a programmer...but you That Pharmacy stuff.....man they eatin

 

[se1f_made]

And they eating well. I was an ast. manager at a drug store chain. Pharm grads start out at $80K bruh

 

[Spliff]

My cousin graduated from Rutgers pharm school.

She 26 makin 120k

"Eatin well" is an understatement

 

[No Homo]

And they eating well. I was an ast. manager at a drug store chain. Pharm grads start out at $80K bruh

My cousin graduated from Rutgers pharm school.

She 26 makin 120k

"Eatin well" is an understatement

 

[No Homo]

For real bruh...My first years of college I had no real motivation...Im out now and make a decent living with alot of potential for growth being a programmer...but you That Pharmacy stuff.....man they eatin

same here..plus im ass at math so that made it even tougher I'd be in calculus and chem like ..fukk this i aint gonna study imma go play ball/drink/mess wit the hoes etc.

it is what it is though im more mature now so imma wit this IT shyt.

 

[tofuspeedstar]

Do you have a bachelors degree?

Nope. I'm graduating next May.

Only in the IT field now because it's relevant to my interests.

 

[AgentGrey]

Honestly I've always had an interest in Pharmacy, but damn brehs.. 6 years of school seems extreme.

hell, these 4 years coming up are towering over me swaggin all over my motivation

 

[No Homo]

Honestly I've always had an interest in Pharmacy, but damn brehs.. 6 years of school seems extreme.

hell, these 4 years coming up are towering over me swaggin all over my motivation

the 6yrs goes by like nothing..youll look back on it like damn i shoulda done it..plus those 6 yrs = set for life.

 

[Akuma]

I like this topic but the thing I don't understand is this:

How did I go to school for a 4 year degree and pay for Certification exams.
And the first thing people say in here is to find an entry-level help desk job that pays a max of $15 in the US? And grind for how many years before I can move up or risk getting laid off?

I want to know how to hustle these stupid recruiters into giving me the same gigs that these clueless foreigners get!

I know for a fact that these Asians and Arabs in IT work on the buddy system and coach each other on how to handle different aspects of software and applications. THEY ARE NOT EXPERTS any more than I am.

People say network network, but most people I know cant even relate to advanced IT subjects like I can, and most people are not trying to help me advance if I did get hired.

People nowadays don't respect a person who stay quiet and get quiet money in IT. They only rock with people who are loud and popular. What can I put on my application to defeat the online Taleo applications screeners?

I appreciate all the info, BUT I NEED TO FIND some concrete strategy, I'm trying to come up the honest way instead of faking my way through.

A+, CCNA, Windows Server, some rookie level Java experience, and I always deal with Linux, and Mac Lion OS, I know mobile applications as far as jailbreaking every smartphone I have ever had. I have been experimenting with Oracle, VMware, and different security protocols.

I am not a one man start-up company. I think we need to start our own IT ponzi scheme to promote all our skill levels, fake references, job titles and the whole deal. I am the type to help people without expecting something in advance, but I really do need that type of boost to jump start my own hustle.