IT Certifications and Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

[calixprynce]

Azure has a cloud skill challenge. Get your Azure certs for free. I havent paid for 1 Azure cert yet.

mark ass bytch nikka. How it feel to be an unarmed nikka nerd?

How you feel that I spent my youth in prison and STILL got out and caught up to Team 6 Certs?


I see why yall stopped Coli Meet Ups , I'd clearly leave with all the hoes. You could never be me bytch nikka ,


Let's ban bet that I'm a real hood nikka and you the typical square nikka nerd....

 

[Jcotton1]

All I did was look on Indeed . Recruiters started hitting me up and they seemed desperate. I did phone interview, got scheduled for in person, then had to thug on the drug test. Easiest job process ever . shyt half the jobs that hit me up, I couldnt get because I don't have a license . No certs either . No degree, shyt I took my college off my resume cuz it was from 2013-2014 dropout type shyt

this like my first IT job that feel like IT . them craccers I last worked for had me doing all their IT problems AND typical inventory/retail shyt .

Got a friend like this. I just helped breh apply for some wfh position with Rocket Mortgage. He's doing shopper at whole foods now. The white chick who told me about the position is doing the same thing work wise.

Yet she got her background check ran for the position and she starts at 18 bucks via phone interview. I'm trying to get breh at least a stepping stone.

If he doesn't know how to program would Udacity or taking a cc course over the summer? What the best action? Should he just mass apply by any means and keep knocking on doors until he gets a Yes? I set him up a git hub but he doesn't know how to do shyt? Any and all advice is welcome.

 

[calixprynce]

Got a friend like this. I just helped breh apply for some wfh position with Rocket Mortgage. He's doing shopper at whole foods now. The white chick who told me about the position is doing the same thing work wise.

Yet she got her background check ran for the position and she starts at 18 bucks via phone interview. I'm trying to get breh at least a stepping stone.

If he doesn't know how to program would Udacity or taking a cc course over the summer? What the best action? Should he just mass apply by any means and keep knocking on doors until he gets a Yes? I set him up a git hub but he doesn't know how to do shyt? Any and all advice is welcome.

programming?? shyt thats a different ball game . I'd recommend school for that tbh . I'm around software engineers all day and the shyt they do seem like genius level shyt than the basic IT shyt I handle .

do he WANT to do programming , or is he open to IT in general ?

 

[Jcotton1]

programming?? shyt thats a different ball game . I'd recommend school for that tbh . I'm around software engineers all day and the shyt they do seem like genius level shyt than the basic IT shyt I handle .

do he WANT to do programming , or is he open to IT in general ?

Breh He is open in general. I'm just trying to get his foot in the dag gone door real talk. I figured he can work and upgrade later via certs if need be. I'm just trying to get breh an Id bagde and so that he can put that on his resume and keep fishing for better like u did

 

[calixprynce]

Breh He is open in general. I'm just trying to get his foot in the dag gone door real talk. I figured he can work and upgrade later via certs if need be. I'm just trying to get breh an Id bagde and so that he can put that on his resume and keep fishing for better like u did

I would tell him to study for helpdesk jobs on YouTube .... embellish his resume with lies and catchwords like "ServiceNow" and "Imaging" .... do the interview and fake it till he make it .

Then we he get the job, he can settle down and get some certs .

I threw dubs on my whole resume . I took a Computer Repair and Network Cabling class while in juvenile prison . I put it on my resume as work experience "working for my high school"

nobody ever checced . and that's not all either

 

[Sonny Bonds]

Studying sucks so hard after having to go into the office. And I have to go in early tomorrow to onboard a new hire.

But I'm tired of seeing jobs that I want and not quite qualified for.

 

[GollyImGully]

Completely forgot how overwhelming it is when you start a new role

Long ass Onboarding meetings
Reading pages and pages of documentation

Looking at old tickets not understanding any of it

Wondering how the hell you gonna help with any of this

 

[cartierhoe]

Completely forgot how overwhelming it is when you start a new role

Long ass Onboarding meetings
Reading pages and pages of documentation

Looking at old tickets not understanding any of it

Wondering how the hell you gonna help with any of this

I've been meaning to update the thread with this as well lol. Been going on a week and a half in my internship I mentioned I got earlier in this thread and I'm relating to you heavy right now lol my access is still being processed for a lot of simple things too so it's got me likewhen I come in the office

So documentation is my life right now, but I can't complain at all I really like the company and the people I'm with.

 

[AyBrehHam Linkin]

Making that jump to 30+ an hour soon



Godamn, i joined this forum just looking for IT career advice on google on a whim one day. This being a majority black forum was just a plus. Trolling in TLR, The Booth and otherwise aside, this thread is my homecoming.

When I first came here, i wasnt even in IT technically, just a drop out...now I'm making 25 and will soon be making atleast 35. Thank you brehs, from the bottom of my heart fr

 

[Adonai]

Looking at old tickets not understanding any of it

Man, I feel it. I'm a week into my new Networking gig and I'm looking at 3 week old EOB tickets in the queue like

 

[JayStarwind]

Tbh I was kinda embarrassed to update. I hit very close rock bottom last year -- lost my job (QA) in 2020 being irresponsible/lazy during the pandemic, unemployed for almost a year then had to go back to my first job ($13/hr) part time in 2021. Wasn't even there for a week and had to be admitted because my health was failing...I had an interview setup that week too Spent 8 days in the hospital and i didn't have insurance Unemployed again

After A LOT of help I was able to turn my life around. Ended up getting that interview 5 months later and have been a Business Systems Analyst for almost a year now at a great company. Thinking about transitioning to Salesforce Admin, then maybe to DevOps.

 

[NYtymes]

Im almost a week into this desktop role, I haven’t been doing anything at all just sitting around basically… Im trying to study random troubleshooting scenarios but not sure where to start

 

[F K]

My homie in D.C told me they are paying splunk admins $215 k any of you boys in that splunk ecosystem?

 

[JT-Money]

My homie in D.C told me they are paying splunk admins $215 k any of you boys in that splunk ecosystem?

I wish I had gotten Splunk certified because I could've made way more money than I do now.

 

[Tr0yTV]

I wish I had gotten Splunk certified because I could've made way more money than I do now.

Then get the certification now