IT Certifications and Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

[calixprynce]

Just getting into the cert game. Started a Tech Support Fundementals class by Google on CourseRA.

I started the same . I completed that course in 1 day . Now im on the next course. Hopefully I can do all 5 of them within a month

 

[se1f_made]

Update: I went ahead and send sent that resignation in, gone on the 28th and no longer have to deal with this shyt


My tipping point was some p*ssy ass cac talking crazy to me on the on the phone until I pulled his bytch card and he ended the call. I knew I was at my limit. Started typing my shyt up that moment

That’s where I’m at with my current role. Job is gravy except for a erratic cac manager that’s been trying to micromanage me since day 1, and p*ssy cac lead that thinks he knows it all and acts like someone asked to borrow money when you reach out for support or a question. These guys do Devops all wrong only option I’ve got it to jump ship or deal with stress and health implications from dealing with their micro aggressions. Hate it because the company is actually kinda dope, looking for a 20% raise and 2 words: IM GONE

 

[AAKing23]

9 days straight of 12 hour meetings to deal with VMware's bullshyt. People hopping across multiple chatrooms in Team, and tempers starting to fly, Multiple vendors and sr level guys talking spicy to each other. This place is a clusterfukk


EDIT:

Yeah I'm bout to bounce,

Between the disorganization, lazy team leads who arent engaged 80% of the time, leaving their team in the dark and being stuck on a team of incompetent bumbling idiots, I'm fukking done with this shyt. I'm at a point where I dread logging on now . Just a professional log retriever and change ticket creator, no technical aspect whatsoever, I need to research different areas of IT because doing sysadmin shyt seems to be a deadend path

only the senior and principle engineers see action while the rest get stuck with menial task.

I'm not doing any of the shyt I was hired to do

If the nikka working fries @ Wendys knew what some of us get paid to do basically nothing....Theyd commit that

I'm thankful but this shyt aint good in the longterm for career prospects

Funny you say that breh I’m trying to move from this help desk shyt into possibly being a sysadmin or network admin, this was after working with some brehs in the field who are sysadmins who said they really don’t be doing shyt at all. Plus come to find out I’ve already been doing entry level sysadmin shyt with Azure, 365, Powershell and limited Windows Server management , might as well make that move I guess

 

[AAKing23]

That’s where I’m at with my current role. Job is gravy except for a erratic cac manager that’s been trying to micromanage me since day 1, and p*ssy cac lead that thinks he knows it all and acts like someone asked to borrow money when you reach out for support or a question. These guys do Devops all wrong only option I’ve got it to jump ship or deal with stress and health implications from dealing with their micro aggressions. Hate it because the company is actually kinda dope, looking for a 20% raise and 2 words: IM GONE

Can’t stand that shyt breh, that’s why I decided I needed a mental break from dealing with cacs and their micro aggressions, gonna come back better than before and put the work in to move up and collect these coins

 

[Dre23]

Taking CKS in April. Looking to hit 200k by mid 2023

 

[Rhyme n Tekniq]

Funny you say that breh I’m trying to move from this help desk shyt into possibly being a sysadmin or network admin, this was after working with some brehs in the field who are sysadmins who said they really don’t be doing shyt at all. Plus come to find out I’ve already been doing entry level sysadmin shyt with Azure, 365, Powershell and limited Windows Server management , might as well make that move I guess

Yeah you're already there

If you looking to make a good salary doing little to no work, find sysadmin positions with finance companies.

It'll be like this

30% meetings, 50% downtime doing none work shyt like studying for a cert or watching netflix or some shyt, and 20% closing what few tickets come to your teams's queue. That's normal pace but depending on the company, downtime could by as high as 70%, (yes I had a couple jobs like that)
When its busy, like say something went wrong during some type of implemetation and they need to reach the vendor to fix the issues tiers 1-3 couldnt, it's going to be 70% meetings, 15% drafting change tickets and retrieving server logs, and the rest is mostly downtime

Sysadmin implied different meaning in Finance because all the departments are so separated, Security is security, networking only deal with networking, storage is its own world, same with desktop support, helpdesk etc.

You can be called a system admin and only support M365, or only VMware or Citrix.
Where I'm at now they have a whole team devoted to just supporting F5 load balancers or only supporting the physical infrastructure like Vxrail or Data Center stuff that all the VMware shyt is running on top of.

So with duties split so many ways, there wont be an opportunity to wear alot of hats and gain a wealth of experience, like working for a VAR or MSP or even a startup
you'll definly make more money in finance sector than any other industry but youre going to have to invest in a decent home lab and get you a few online training accounts and use your downtime to skill up because your company aint about to give you much to part with.

this has been my experience working at 3 different places so .....

 

[CentricTongues]

Does anyone have in experience in Service Now or ITIL? i'm trying to get away from help desk (been there 7 years) and these seem like a great system admin step, up for me.

 

[CentricTongues]

A bunch my most relevant ones are network+,sec+, Linux + and Aws ccp, windows server

worked as System Admin for a couple yrs and now a sharepoint admin

what does the work life balance and pay feel for you as a sharepoint admin? someone recommend to me but i don't see too many folks details their day to day on the internet.

 

[Rhyme n Tekniq]

At a point where I just cancel interviews if I have a strong sense that it's not gonna go anywhere or I'm picking up red flags.
Maybe its because I'm financially and lifestyle wise comfortable as fukk atm and I'm just casually looking for jobs. Hard to be motivated when me and wifeys combined take home easily exceeds 10 gs a month, not bragging ; it just hit me like a week ago that I havent even bothered to check my bank account in months or even stopped to actually realize How good my finances are because im always in grind mode.

1st and foremost, panel interviews. These almost always always end up dead in the water for a myriad of reasons and I'd rather save my time, measure twice and cut once.

second is me being completely transparent about my knowledge and skills during initial screening, and getting passed along to the next round only for the decision makers to decide right then that they need someone with previously unmentioned skillset. I save all the job descriptions in PDF format in one drive so I know what I applied to. Sometimes companies have a JD attached to the invite email, and if the shyt looks vastly different from the initial JD, I'll just cancel. Been burned too many times.

inflexible scheduling of interviews. Not a morning person , I already know I'm going to bomb any and all morning interviews so that's out. anything after 1pm is usually good for me but lately shyt been ramping up at work and there's no telling when I'll be randomly pulled into a meeting for who knows how long. Companies be throwing out 1 or 2 dates on some take it or leave it so I oblige and say fukk it

Truthfully, I dont even know if a care about finding a new job at the moment except to see if I can finally reach my 6 figures in 3 years goal, and I'm awfully close to landing one but these most recent dealings with companies makes me want to wait it out til June...unless the bag is there.

Bout to just start throwing wild numbers out to see who's serious, because Im asking for 90-95K and they're jumpin all over it or tellin me shyt like "oh that's more than doable" or "it's definitely in the range"...yeah probably the low range too. Better start asking for 110k or 115k

bout to shoot for the stars and see where I land with this shyt... fukk it

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

That’s where I’m at with my current role. Job is gravy except for a erratic cac manager that’s been trying to micromanage me since day 1, and p*ssy cac lead that thinks he knows it all and acts like someone asked to borrow money when you reach out for support or a question. These guys do Devops all wrong only option I’ve got it to jump ship or deal with stress and health implications from dealing with their micro aggressions. Hate it because the company is actually kinda dope, looking for a 20% raise and 2 words: IM GONE

Jump ship
If you have a gut feeling your bosses are trying g to get you out the paint they usually are

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

Studying to take my ccna for the second time 2 months from now

Using lectures as my main resource and other stuff to supplement me is helping me understand all the concepts

I'm using Jeremy's IT Lab on youtube

 

[thewiseman]

Studying to take my ccna for the second time 2 months from now

Using lectures as my main resource and other stuff to supplement me is helping me understand all the concepts

I'm using Jeremy's IT Lab on youtube

I heard practicing with virutal machines and home labbing would help too. Good luck

 

[Digital Shaman]

I've been a helpdesk/technician coming on two years now. I started with no actual work experience but I already knew hardware and software to a decent degree. I'm thinking of going in the cloud/networking direction (I dont want to deal with people at all anymore). Are there specific cloud/network certs that are under AWS ?

 

[Tr0yTV]

Just spoke to a recruiter at TikTok. The TC was trash Got a call with a big 4 company about a manager role. Hopefully the pay is up to par

 

[cartierhoe]

So today I got sent an offer letter for an internship at a big financial institution for their tech internship. 30+/hour, 2000$ stipend

Let me tell yall I want to sincerely thank everyone who contributed to this thread for all yall motivation and inspiration to go and chase this IT dream we all got. I owe it all to yall, and reading through this thread multiple times, bookmarking posts, following advice, this work has really paid off. And for the guys I PM'ed, thank you as well for your advice and guidance.

This about to take my career to the stratosphere and all before graduation, I'm elated as fukk right now. I gotta ponder this offer because I'm looking forward to hearing back from a few more companies with their decisions. But for now, to God be the glory

Funny enough I'm caught in a dilemma now with these couple offers I got