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Been in a couple of tech/cloud focused rooms on Clubhouse. Competition is real out there:patrice::sadcam::whew:

Multi-Cloud seems to be the wave from an enterprise context:leostare:
Being competent with more than one cloud provider seems to be new benchmark out there. Smh :unimpressed:

Also seems like AWS has joined the gig economy :skip:, as they have a new free-lancer platform called AWS IQ that lets customers request services from AWS certified individuals (only US for now) for jobs of different sizes.

You get to set your hourly rate.



Its not farfetched to imagine a time in the future, where all these cloud jobs with high salaries are reduced gig based jobs :lupe:


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Get in while you can, brehs:flabbynsick:
 
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Been in a couple of tech/cloud focused rooms on Clubhouse. Competition is real out there:patrice::sadcam::whew:

Multi-Cloud seems to be the wave from an enterprise context:leostare:
Being competent with more than one cloud provider seems to be new benchmark out there. Smh :unimpressed:

Also seems like AWS has joined the gig economy :skip:, as they have a new free-lancer platform called AWS IQ that lets customers request services from AWS certified individuals (only US for now) for jobs of different sizes.

You get to set your hourly rate.



Its not farfetched to imagine a time in the future, where all these cloud jobs with high salaries are reduced gig based jobs :lupe:


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Get in while you can, brehs:flabbynsick:


Meh, thats fine, free lancers and consulting firms are on this so these are people you would be competing with on the job market anyways. The issue is that once it opens up to outside the U.S, they can basically get experts for even cheaper price. So basically those U.S free lancers and consulting firms will need to work for peanuts. This is when :mjcry:.
 

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Meh, thats fine, free lancers and consulting firms are on this so these are people you would be competing with on the job market anyways. The issue is that once it opens up to outside the U.S, they can basically get experts for even cheaper price. So basically those U.S free lancers and consulting firms will need to work for peanuts. This is when :mjcry:.

With the DACA immigrants coming in. It's going to be crazy trying to get into cloud if you havent already started. Learn the new technologies brehs before it's to late
 

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For those of you who know Python, what steps can I take to begin learning the language? I want to pivot into Data Science/Data Analyst work. There's a growing demand for it in my field and it's ripe for a career change.
 

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theyre already here theyve been here since they were children. its the H1B you have to worry about
I've noticed companies laying off IT workers in the US and immediately rehiring for that same position overseas. These overseas hires they occasionally try to bring over to the US for a few months at a time. But I'm not sure what visa their using to do this. I'm guessing this is how to get around all the immigration roadblocks from the Trump Administration.

My last company the amount of American IT workers shrunk every year it seemed. They would just disappear people and the next thing you know someone overseas was doing that job. The only hired American to do a bunch of heavy lifting getting projects off the ground. Then got rid of them once the bulk of the work was done.
 

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Been in a couple of tech/cloud focused rooms on Clubhouse. Competition is real out there:patrice::sadcam::whew:

Multi-Cloud seems to be the wave from an enterprise context:leostare:
Being competent with more than one cloud provider seems to be new benchmark out there. Smh :unimpressed:

Also seems like AWS has joined the gig economy :skip:, as they have a new free-lancer platform called AWS IQ that lets customers request services from AWS certified individuals (only US for now) for jobs of different sizes.

You get to set your hourly rate.



Its not farfetched to imagine a time in the future, where all these cloud jobs with high salaries are reduced gig based jobs :lupe:


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Get in while you can, brehs:flabbynsick:
I wouldn't worry too much about this. The cool thing about tech is, as long as you're good at what you do, you'll always make money. The amount of money being wasted on people who have no idea what the fukk they're doing is mind boggling. The landscape is forever changing so you have to stay on top of newer and hot technologies, but as long as you're competent you'll be fine. This cloud shyt will be in demand for a while and will be desperate for competent people for a while longer than that.
 

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Been in a couple of tech/cloud focused rooms on Clubhouse. Competition is real out there:patrice::sadcam::whew:

Multi-Cloud seems to be the wave from an enterprise context:leostare:
Being competent with more than one cloud provider seems to be new benchmark out there. Smh :unimpressed:

Also seems like AWS has joined the gig economy :skip:, as they have a new free-lancer platform called AWS IQ that lets customers request services from AWS certified individuals (only US for now) for jobs of different sizes.

You get to set your hourly rate.



Its not farfetched to imagine a time in the future, where all these cloud jobs with high salaries are reduced gig based jobs :lupe:


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Get in while you can, brehs:flabbynsick:

Most people in Clubhouse is all cap. I would not pay it any mind. It seems people love talking more than doing nowadays. Stay on notice, how many people talk about xyz, but you always see them on CH. Also while being multi-cloud is good, I rather focus on learning all I can based on one cloud provider.
 

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Did you self pay for the GPEN and the sans course?

Yeah, but via WorkStudy, so it was about £2000 for me.

I'd suggest everyone just applies 3/4 times a year as once you get into the program (and do well) you're set. I've done 4 WorkStudy courses in the past 2 years
 

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I’m wondering I got two I7 laptops 16gb each are those good enough to do labs with?
 
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