IT Certifications and Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

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My goal for next year
  • RedHat RHCE certified
  • Oracle Solaris certified
  • NetApp Implementation certified
  • Cisco CCNP certified
I'm already good on all 4 products and just gotta get it on paper. Let's make this happen!
 

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Has anyone here worked abroad ?

I am thinking of working in Dubai or Qatar, get that tax free money
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I am told from other contractors that being from England companies in those areas pay you more, dunno if true. Its always a case of "oh my friend is doing that" or "oh my friend of a friend has done that" so most of time I take what they say with a pinch of salt.

My assumption is that they could prob hire someone from India and just pay them a lot less than they would for a Westerner, again I dont know.

I am in IT Infra, so lot of AD, Exchange type work, so I dont know if that is even in demand over there.

Done a few seacrhes on various IT Contracting forums, but most is quite old info.

Thanks in advance.
 

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Has anyone here worked abroad ?

I am thinking of working in Dubai or Qatar, get that tax free money
:blessed:

I am told from other contractors that being from England companies in those areas pay you more, dunno if true. Its always a case of "oh my friend is doing that" or "oh my friend of a friend has done that" so most of time I take what they say with a pinch of salt.

My assumption is that they could prob hire someone from India and just pay them a lot less than they would for a Westerner, again I dont know.

I am in IT Infra, so lot of AD, Exchange type work, so I dont know if that is even in demand over there.

Done a few seacrhes on various IT Contracting forums, but most is quite old info.

Thanks in advance.
how's it jobs in london? might move there in a couple years currently eating where i am now
 

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how's it jobs in london? might move there in a couple years currently eating where i am now

Alot of migration roles out here ATM, no idea why these companies leave it so late to move from XP to 7

Also I am seeing many VM roles come up, alot of companies wanting to move to VDI's etc, so that will be my next step to get some VMware certs
 

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Alot of migration roles out here ATM, no idea why these companies leave it so late to move from XP to 7

Also I am seeing many VM roles come up, alot of companies wanting to move to VDI's etc, so that will be my next step to get some VMware certs
:myman: im not too far from england. yeah strange that companies are moving so late from xp to 7 but that shyts costs companies alot of money.
 

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I hate when mofos go around talking about their Linux/Unix proficiency only to find out they only fukk with GUI and have no CLI skills :stopitslime:
I was called in ths morning to assist in the interview of a young breh. So me and my coworker start throwing questions at the cat and dude sitting there looking at us like a :hamster:
Virtual box in seamless mode
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Best of both worlds
 

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I hate when mofos go around talking about their Linux/Unix proficiency only to find out they only fukk with GUI and have no CLI skills :stopitslime:
I was called in ths morning to assist in the interview of a young breh. So me and my coworker start throwing questions at the cat and dude sitting there looking at us like a :hamster:

:bryan: that brings back a memory..back in the summer of 2006 I applied for a position that mentioned unix as a skill that would be useful for the position but not required..i had rudimentary knowledge of it so I was like fukk it if its not required...went to the interview and dude after about 10 mins started throwing unix questions at me...I was :lupe: throughout the rest of the interview...needless to say I didn't get the job...it was also the first and last time I ever went to an interview and failed to show and prove my skills...lesson learned
 

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Okay brehs anybody got some insight on the dfw area job market or hookups? For right now I'm just trying to find a help desk gig or something entry level until I can get my certs up. My first "official" IT job has been the gig im at that I've been working for the past yr and a half. I've put on my application but I've mainly had short term contract work without benefits. Any tips?
 

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I'm finally starting to understand how Javascript's prototypical inheritance works. It took long enough...
 

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For the brehs that have a computer science(or anything related) degree, where did you work during school?
 

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For the brehs that have a computer science(or anything related) degree, where did you work during school?

during undergrad I worked one of the campus labs as an asst. lab manager; during grad school I worked only during summers at an internship until my last semester where I got a help desk position working part time
 

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I was playing around with JS on Codecademy in class today. Its not as difficult as I expected.

The basic syntax of Javascript is easy to grasp, such as loops, arrays, etc., but the difficulty comes in in learning exactly how prototypical inheritance works and in learning about quirks such as automatic type conversion. For example, you will see code like:
if(obj)
{
//code here
}

where obj is an object the programmer is looking to see exists. If the object exists, then the code is run... That's because there are 6 'falsy' values in Javascript: null, undefined, 0, " " (empty string), false, and NaN. Everything else gets converted to true when used as a condition in an if statement.
A lot of programmers complain about Javascript but I actually quite like it.
 

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-stumbles into the thread, again-

I'm here to humble myself.

For the last few months, I've been working on Windows 7 migration projects. Lots of short term work, rarely full time, and the hunt for work is wearing me down. I recently spoke with a group that has a 16 week training course where they help you with networking (with people, and actual networking too). They'll help me get an A+ without having to pay for it out of pocket. All I have to do is commit to their training sessions, which are 5 days a week, 9 am - 3 pm.

Outside of that, I'm pretty lost on what direction I should go in. I've dabbled with different textbooks, but the majority of my learning seems to happen when I'm actually working, or when someone is directly showing me what to do. I guess I'm more of a visual learner. I'm looking at going to the local community college and taking up their computer science courses as well. My biggest problem is, I want to make money, and I want to do it NOW. Kinda need to do it now too, since things have gotten a bit out of control with my limited finances and all.

I have help desk experience, which amounts to minor troubleshooting on a call center floor. My resume is ok, but I know it needs bolstering in the form of more work. I am going to reread this thread when I'm in a better frame of mind, but right now I kinda feel disillusioned. I thought work would be more plentiful, especially with all of the Windows 7 migration projects out there, but most companies don't know what the fukk they're really looking for when they try to hire guys. (at least, in my opinion)

Did I go about this all wrong? I'm not in it strictly for the money, but I have not been able to grasp much on my own. Should I focus on school and training and hope the job offers come, or should I continue applying for everything in sight that sounds remotely close to help desk and junior system admin positions?
 
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